Place de Rennes (now Place du 18-Juin-1940)
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Place de Rennes, now known as Place du 18-Juin-1940, is a public square in Paris near Gare Montparnasse, historically noted as the site of the famous 1895 Montparnasse derailment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Place de Rennes (now Place du 18-Juin-1940) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1841703 — 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: Place de Rennes (now Place du 18-Juin-1940) Context triple: [Montparnasse derailment, streetBelow, Place de Rennes (now Place du 18-Juin-1940)]
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A.
Place du Maréchal Leclerc (various French cities)
Place du Maréchal Leclerc is the name given to numerous squares in French cities commemorating Marshal Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, a celebrated Free French general of World War II.
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B.
Place de Valenciennes
Place de Valenciennes is a small public square in Paris, France, located near Rue de Dunkerque in the 10th arrondissement.
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C.
Place de la Cathédrale
Place de la Cathédrale is a central square in Strasbourg, France, known for its proximity to and views of the city’s famous Gothic cathedral.
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D.
Place de la Palud
Place de la Palud is a historic central square in Lausanne, Switzerland, known for its town hall, animated clock, and role as a lively pedestrian meeting point.
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E.
Place du 1er Novembre
Place du 1er Novembre is a central historic square in Oran, Algeria, known for its colonial-era architecture and role as a focal point of civic and cultural life in the city.
- 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: Place de Rennes (now Place du 18-Juin-1940) Target entity description: Place de Rennes, now known as Place du 18-Juin-1940, is a public square in Paris near Gare Montparnasse, historically noted as the site of the famous 1895 Montparnasse derailment.
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A.
Place du Maréchal Leclerc (various French cities)
Place du Maréchal Leclerc is the name given to numerous squares in French cities commemorating Marshal Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, a celebrated Free French general of World War II.
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B.
Place de Valenciennes
Place de Valenciennes is a small public square in Paris, France, located near Rue de Dunkerque in the 10th arrondissement.
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C.
Place de la Cathédrale
Place de la Cathédrale is a central square in Strasbourg, France, known for its proximity to and views of the city’s famous Gothic cathedral.
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D.
Place de la Palud
Place de la Palud is a historic central square in Lausanne, Switzerland, known for its town hall, animated clock, and role as a lively pedestrian meeting point.
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E.
Place du 1er Novembre
Place du 1er Novembre is a central historic square in Oran, Algeria, known for its colonial-era architecture and role as a focal point of civic and cultural life in the city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Place de Rennes (now Place du 18-Juin-1940) Description of subject: Place de Rennes, now known as Place du 18-Juin-1940, is a public square in Paris near Gare Montparnasse, historically noted as the site of the famous 1895 Montparnasse derailment.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.