Granville
E170610
Granville is a coastal town in Normandy, France, known for its historic port, seaside resorts, and views toward the Chausey Islands.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Granville canonical | 51 |
| Granville area | 1 |
| Granville canton | 1 |
| Granville urban area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1485119 — 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: Granville Context triple: [Chausey, locatedNear, Granville]
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A.
Ouistreham
Ouistreham is a coastal town in Normandy, France, known for its ferry port and its location at the eastern end of the D-Day landing area of Sword Beach.
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B.
Wereham
Wereham is a small rural village in Norfolk, England, known for its historic church and traditional village green.
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C.
Eastham
Eastham is a village on the Wirral Peninsula in northwest England, historically significant as a transport hub and now known for its proximity to the Manchester Ship Canal and Eastham Country Park.
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D.
Eastham
Eastham is a coastal town on outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, salt marshes, and access to the Cape Cod National Seashore.
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E.
Osterville
Osterville is a coastal village in the town of Barnstable, Massachusetts, known for its beaches, marinas, and affluent residential character on Cape Cod.
- 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: Granville Target entity description: Granville is a coastal town in Normandy, France, known for its historic port, seaside resorts, and views toward the Chausey Islands.
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A.
Ouistreham
Ouistreham is a coastal town in Normandy, France, known for its ferry port and its location at the eastern end of the D-Day landing area of Sword Beach.
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B.
Wereham
Wereham is a small rural village in Norfolk, England, known for its historic church and traditional village green.
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C.
Eastham
Eastham is a village on the Wirral Peninsula in northwest England, historically significant as a transport hub and now known for its proximity to the Manchester Ship Canal and Eastham Country Park.
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D.
Eastham
Eastham is a coastal town on outer Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, salt marshes, and access to the Cape Cod National Seashore.
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E.
Osterville
Osterville is a coastal village in the town of Barnstable, Massachusetts, known for its beaches, marinas, and affluent residential character on Cape Cod.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coastal town
ⓘ
commune of France ⓘ |
| climate | oceanic climate ⓘ |
| coastType | rocky coast ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| demonym |
Granvillais
ⓘ
Granvillaise ⓘ |
| distanceTo | approximately 100 km from Mont-Saint-Michel ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 10 metres ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
hospitality industry
ⓘ
maritime activities ⓘ retail trade ⓘ |
| hasFeature | seaside resort ⓘ |
| hasHarbor |
Granville fishing port
ⓘ
Granville marina ⓘ
linked to:
Granville fishing port
|
| hasMaritimeConnection | Chausey Islands ⓘ |
| hasPart | historic port of Granville ⓘ |
| hasPortTraffic |
ferries to Chausey Islands
ⓘ
fishing vessels ⓘ pleasure craft ⓘ |
| hasTransport | Granville railway station ⓘ |
| hasViewToward | Chausey Islands ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic port town ⓘ |
| knownFor |
fishing industry
ⓘ
oyster farming nearby ⓘ seaside villas ⓘ tourism ⓘ views of the Chausey archipelago ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Normandy ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Manche department ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricalRegion | Normandy ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | northwestern France ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Granville Bay ⓘ |
| locatedOnBodyOfWater | English Channel ⓘ |
| partOf |
Coutances arrondissement
ⓘ
Normandy coastal resorts ⓘ |
| population | approximately 13000 inhabitants ⓘ |
| postalCode | 50400 ⓘ |
| railwayConnection |
Paris–Granville railway line
ⓘ
linked to:
Paris–Granville railway
|
| regionCapitalOf |
Granville canton
ⓘ
linked to:
Granville
|
| seaView | English Channel ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| touristAttraction |
beaches
ⓘ
coastal promenades ⓘ old walled upper town ⓘ |
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: Granville Description of subject: Granville is a coastal town in Normandy, France, known for its historic port, seaside resorts, and views toward the Chausey Islands.
Referenced by (54)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Chausey (historically associated)
subject linked to:
Chausey (historically associated)
subject linked to:
Manche department
linked to: Granville
linked to: Granville
linked to: Granville