Mâcon
E173944
Mâcon is a historic town in eastern France’s Burgundy region, known for its wine production and picturesque setting along the Saône River.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mâcon canonical | 63 |
| Mâcon-Loché | 2 |
| Mâcon city center | 1 |
| Ville de Mâcon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T840469 — 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: Mâcon Context triple: [Saône River, flowsThrough, Mâcon]
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A.
Dijon
Dijon is a historic city in eastern France renowned for its rich architectural heritage, former status as the capital of the Duchy of Burgundy, and its famous mustard.
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B.
Troyes
Troyes is a historic city in northeastern France, known for its well-preserved medieval old town, half-timbered houses, and Gothic churches.
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C.
Rodez
Rodez is a historic cathedral city in southern France that serves as the capital of the Aveyron department in the Occitanie region.
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D.
Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand is a central French city known for its historic cathedral built of black volcanic stone and as the longtime headquarters of the tire company Michelin.
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E.
Angers
Angers is a historic city in western France known for its medieval architecture, including the Château d'Angers and its famous Apocalypse Tapestry.
- 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: Mâcon Target entity description: Mâcon is a historic town in eastern France’s Burgundy region, known for its wine production and picturesque setting along the Saône River.
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A.
Dijon
Dijon is a historic city in eastern France renowned for its rich architectural heritage, former status as the capital of the Duchy of Burgundy, and its famous mustard.
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B.
Troyes
Troyes is a historic city in northeastern France, known for its well-preserved medieval old town, half-timbered houses, and Gothic churches.
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C.
Rodez
Rodez is a historic cathedral city in southern France that serves as the capital of the Aveyron department in the Occitanie region.
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D.
Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand is a central French city known for its historic cathedral built of black volcanic stone and as the longtime headquarters of the tire company Michelin.
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E.
Angers
Angers is a historic city in western France known for its medieval architecture, including the Château d'Angers and its famous Apocalypse Tapestry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Mâcon Description of subject: Mâcon is a historic town in eastern France’s Burgundy region, known for its wine production and picturesque setting along the Saône River.
Referenced by (67)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Weiden in der Oberpfalz (district-free city)
linked to: Mâcon
subject linked to:
Drouet