Auxerre, France
E19328
Auxerre, France is a historic city in the Burgundy region known for its medieval architecture, Gothic cathedral, and role as a cultural and economic center along the Yonne River.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Auxerre, France canonical | 3 |
| Auxerre area | 1 |
| City of Auxerre | 1 |
| municipality of Auxerre | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T51353 — 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: Auxerre, France Context triple: [Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, birthPlace, Auxerre, France]
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A.
Reims
Reims is a historic city in northeastern France known for its Gothic cathedral, role in French coronations, and significance during both World Wars.
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B.
Strasbourg
Strasbourg is a major French city on the Rhine known for hosting key European institutions, including the European Parliament and the Council of Europe.
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C.
Vichy
Vichy is a spa town in central France renowned for its thermal springs, health resorts, and role as the seat of the World War II Vichy regime.
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D.
Lille
Lille is a historic industrial and cultural hub in northern France, known for its Flemish-influenced architecture, large student population, and role as a major European transport crossroads.
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E.
Arromanches-les-Bains
Arromanches-les-Bains is a coastal town in Normandy, France, best known for its role in the D-Day landings and the remains of the Mulberry artificial harbor just offshore.
- 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: Auxerre, France Target entity description: Auxerre, France is a historic city in the Burgundy region known for its medieval architecture, Gothic cathedral, and role as a cultural and economic center along the Yonne River.
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A.
Reims
Reims is a historic city in northeastern France known for its Gothic cathedral, role in French coronations, and significance during both World Wars.
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B.
Strasbourg
Strasbourg is a major French city on the Rhine known for hosting key European institutions, including the European Parliament and the Council of Europe.
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C.
Vichy
Vichy is a spa town in central France renowned for its thermal springs, health resorts, and role as the seat of the World War II Vichy regime.
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D.
Lille
Lille is a historic industrial and cultural hub in northern France, known for its Flemish-influenced architecture, large student population, and role as a major European transport crossroads.
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E.
Arromanches-les-Bains
Arromanches-les-Bains is a coastal town in Normandy, France, best known for its role in the D-Day landings and the remains of the Mulberry artificial harbor just offshore.
- 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: Auxerre, France Description of subject: Auxerre, France is a historic city in the Burgundy region known for its medieval architecture, Gothic cathedral, and role as a cultural and economic center along the Yonne River.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Auxerre, France