Sainte-Menehould
E180357
Sainte-Menehould is a historic commune in northeastern France, noted for its role in the French Revolution as a key stop where the fleeing royal family was recognized during the Flight to Varennes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sainte-Menehould canonical | 13 |
| town of Sainte-Menehould | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T913507 — 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: Sainte-Menehould Context triple: [Flight to Varennes, stoppedAt, Sainte-Menehould]
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A.
Gonesse
Gonesse is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France, known historically as a rural town and now as part of the greater Paris metropolitan area.
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B.
Melun
Melun is a historic commune in the Île-de-France region of north-central France, known as a regional administrative center and former royal town southeast of Paris.
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C.
Tournus
Tournus is a historic town in eastern France’s Burgundy region, known for its Romanesque abbey and riverside setting along the Saône.
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D.
Saint-Mandé
Saint-Mandé is a small, affluent suburban commune just east of Paris, France, known for its proximity to the Bois de Vincennes and several national institutions.
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E.
Poissy
Poissy is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, known for hosting Le Corbusier’s iconic modernist Villa Savoye.
- 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: Sainte-Menehould Target entity description: Sainte-Menehould is a historic commune in northeastern France, noted for its role in the French Revolution as a key stop where the fleeing royal family was recognized during the Flight to Varennes.
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A.
Gonesse
Gonesse is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France, known historically as a rural town and now as part of the greater Paris metropolitan area.
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B.
Melun
Melun is a historic commune in the Île-de-France region of north-central France, known as a regional administrative center and former royal town southeast of Paris.
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C.
Tournus
Tournus is a historic town in eastern France’s Burgundy region, known for its Romanesque abbey and riverside setting along the Saône.
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D.
Saint-Mandé
Saint-Mandé is a small, affluent suburban commune just east of Paris, France, known for its proximity to the Bois de Vincennes and several national institutions.
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E.
Poissy
Poissy is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, known for hosting Le Corbusier’s iconic modernist Villa Savoye.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| administrativeDivisionType | commune déléguée ⓘ |
| climate | oceanic climate ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| demographicCharacteristic | small population ⓘ |
| distanceFrom |
approximately 100 km east of Reims
ⓘ
approximately 80 km west of Verdun ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
forestry ⓘ tourism related to First World War sites in the Argonne ⓘ |
| formerStatus | subprefecture of Marne ⓘ |
| hasCuisineSpecialty | pieds de porc à la Sainte-Menehould ⓘ |
| hasFortification | remains of medieval fortifications ⓘ |
| hasHeritage |
historic town center
ⓘ
monuments related to the French Revolution ⓘ |
| hasMuseum | Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Sainte-Menehould ⓘ |
| hasNearbyNaturalFeature | Argonne plateau ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | Église Saint-Charles de Sainte-Menehould ⓘ |
| hasTransport | Sainte-Menehould railway station ⓘ |
| historicalEvent | arrest and identification of Louis XVI’s party during the Flight to Varennes in June 1791 ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Champagne ⓘ |
| INSEECODE | 51507 ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Grand Est
ⓘ
Marne department ⓘ northeastern France ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Argonne forest
ⓘ
linked to:
Argonne Forest
|
| locatedOn |
river Aisne
ⓘ
linked to:
Aisne
|
| mergedInto | Argonne Champenoise ⓘ |
| mergerEffectiveDate | 2017-01-01 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Saint Menehould ⓘ |
| nearbyConflictArea |
First World War Argonne front
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Front
|
| notableFor |
historic stop on the route from Paris to the eastern frontier
ⓘ
recognition of the fleeing French royal family during the Flight to Varennes ⓘ |
| partOf |
Arrondissement of Châlons-en-Champagne
ⓘ
Canton of Argonne Suippe et Vesle ⓘ |
| postalCode | 51800 ⓘ |
| regionType | rural town ⓘ |
| roadJunctionOf |
Route nationale 3
ⓘ
Route nationale 77 ⓘ |
| roleInEvent |
Flight to Varennes
ⓘ
French Revolution ⓘ |
| timeZone | CET ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CEST ⓘ |
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: Sainte-Menehould Description of subject: Sainte-Menehould is a historic commune in northeastern France, noted for its role in the French Revolution as a key stop where the fleeing royal family was recognized during the Flight to Varennes.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Echternach, Luxembourg
subject linked to:
Drouet
linked to: Sainte-Menehould
linked to: Sainte-Menehould