Lirey, France
E242355
Lirey, France is a small village historically notable as the earliest reliably documented site where the Shroud of Turin was publicly displayed in the 14th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lirey | 3 |
| Lirey, France canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2189384 — 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: Lirey, France Context triple: [Shroud of Turin, firstCertainHistoricalLocation, Lirey, France]
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A.
Roscoff, France
Roscoff, France is a small coastal town in Brittany known for its historic port, thalassotherapy centers, and traditional onion-growing heritage.
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B.
Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France
Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France is a picturesque seaside resort town on the French Riviera known for its Mediterranean beaches, Belle Époque architecture, and luxury yachting harbor.
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C.
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Boulogne-sur-Mer is a coastal city and major fishing port in northern France, located on the English Channel in the Pas-de-Calais department.
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D.
Pontivy, France
Pontivy is a historic town in the Morbihan department of Brittany in northwestern France, known for its medieval and Napoleonic heritage along the Blavet River.
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E.
Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France
Le Touquet-Paris-Plage is an upscale seaside resort town on France’s northern coast, known for its elegant villas, wide sandy beaches, and popularity among affluent Parisians.
- 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: Lirey, France Target entity description: Lirey, France is a small village historically notable as the earliest reliably documented site where the Shroud of Turin was publicly displayed in the 14th century.
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A.
Roscoff, France
Roscoff, France is a small coastal town in Brittany known for its historic port, thalassotherapy centers, and traditional onion-growing heritage.
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B.
Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France
Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France is a picturesque seaside resort town on the French Riviera known for its Mediterranean beaches, Belle Époque architecture, and luxury yachting harbor.
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C.
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Boulogne-sur-Mer is a coastal city and major fishing port in northern France, located on the English Channel in the Pas-de-Calais department.
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D.
Pontivy, France
Pontivy is a historic town in the Morbihan department of Brittany in northwestern France, known for its medieval and Napoleonic heritage along the Blavet River.
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E.
Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France
Le Touquet-Paris-Plage is an upscale seaside resort town on France’s northern coast, known for its elegant villas, wide sandy beaches, and popularity among affluent Parisians.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commune déléguée
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| associatedWithFamily | House of Charny ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson |
Geoffroi de Charny
ⓘ
linked to:
Geoffrey de Charny
|
| country | France ⓘ |
| hasAdministrativeChange | merged into Villechétif ⓘ |
| hasAdministrativeStatus | former independent commune ⓘ |
| hasChurch | collegiate church of Lirey ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | geographic coordinates ⓘ |
| hasCountrySubdivision |
department of Aube
ⓘ
linked to:
Aube department
region of Grand Est ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | medieval religious heritage ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalEvent | first reliably documented public exhibition of the Shroud of Turin ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalPeriod | 14th century ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalRole | pilgrimage site for Shroud of Turin devotees ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasPopulationType | small village ⓘ |
| hasRelicAssociation | Shroud of Turin ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuildingType | collegiate church ⓘ |
| hasReligiousSignificance | site associated with the Shroud of Turin ⓘ |
| historicallyPartOf | Champagne ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Aube department
ⓘ
Grand Est region ⓘ
linked to:
Grand Est
northeastern France ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Troyes ⓘ |
| notableFor | early public display of the Shroud of Turin ⓘ |
| partOf | commune of Villechétif ⓘ |
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: Lirey, France Description of subject: Lirey, France is a small village historically notable as the earliest reliably documented site where the Shroud of Turin was publicly displayed in the 14th century.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
collegiate church of Lirey
linked to: Lirey, France
linked to: Lirey, France
linked to: Lirey, France