Vannes
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Vannes is a historic coastal city in northwestern France known for its well-preserved medieval old town and harbor on the Gulf of Morbihan.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vannes canonical | 22 |
| Vannes agglomeration area | 1 |
| Vannes old town | 1 |
| Vannes, Morbihan, France | 1 |
| harbor of Vannes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1352620 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vannes Context triple: [Brittany, hasMajorCity, Vannes]
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A.
Quimper
Quimper is a historic city in western France known for its medieval old town, Gothic cathedral, and traditional Breton culture.
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B.
Rennes
Rennes is the capital city of France’s Brittany region, known for its historic medieval center, vibrant student population, and role as a major cultural and economic hub in western France.
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C.
Nantes
Nantes is a historic port city in western France on the Loire River, known for its maritime heritage, cultural institutions, and vibrant arts scene.
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D.
Lorient
Lorient is a port city in the Brittany region of northwestern France, known for its maritime heritage and annual Interceltic Festival.
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E.
Villeneuve d’Ascq
Villeneuve d’Ascq is a suburban city in northern France near Lille, known for its universities, technology parks, and modernist urban planning.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vannes Target entity description: Vannes is a historic coastal city in northwestern France known for its well-preserved medieval old town and harbor on the Gulf of Morbihan.
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A.
Quimper
Quimper is a historic city in western France known for its medieval old town, Gothic cathedral, and traditional Breton culture.
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B.
Rennes
Rennes is the capital city of France’s Brittany region, known for its historic medieval center, vibrant student population, and role as a major cultural and economic hub in western France.
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C.
Nantes
Nantes is a historic port city in western France on the Loire River, known for its maritime heritage, cultural institutions, and vibrant arts scene.
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D.
Lorient
Lorient is a port city in the Brittany region of northwestern France, known for its maritime heritage and annual Interceltic Festival.
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E.
Villeneuve d’Ascq
Villeneuve d’Ascq is a suburban city in northern France near Lille, known for its universities, technology parks, and modernist urban planning.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Vannes Description of subject: Vannes is a historic coastal city in northwestern France known for its well-preserved medieval old town and harbor on the Gulf of Morbihan.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Vannes
linked to: Vannes
linked to: Vannes
subject linked to:
Paul Helleu
linked to: Vannes
subject linked to:
Mons, Belgium