Cantal cheese
E271851
Cantal cheese is a traditional French cow’s milk cheese from the Auvergne region, known for its firm texture and nutty, tangy flavor that intensifies with age.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cantal cheese canonical | 5 |
| Cantal jeune | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2505162 — 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: Cantal cheese Context triple: [Cantal, knownFor, Cantal cheese]
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A.
Mont d'Or cheese
Mont d'Or cheese is a soft, rich, washed-rind cow’s milk cheese from the Jura region of France, traditionally sold in a spruce-wood box and eaten warm and spoonable.
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B.
Comté cheese
Comté cheese is a traditional French cow’s milk cheese from the Jura region, known for its firm texture, complex nutty flavor, and long aging process.
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C.
Camembert cheese
Camembert cheese is a soft, creamy, surface-ripened cow’s milk cheese from France, famous for its bloomy white rind and rich, earthy flavor.
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D.
Munster cheese
Munster cheese is a strong-smelling, soft cow’s milk cheese from eastern France, especially known for its washed rind and pungent, tangy flavor.
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E.
Cheshire cheese
Cheshire cheese is a traditional, crumbly British cow's milk cheese from the county of Cheshire, known as one of England's oldest recorded cheese varieties.
- 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: Cantal cheese Target entity description: Cantal cheese is a traditional French cow’s milk cheese from the Auvergne region, known for its firm texture and nutty, tangy flavor that intensifies with age.
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A.
Mont d'Or cheese
Mont d'Or cheese is a soft, rich, washed-rind cow’s milk cheese from the Jura region of France, traditionally sold in a spruce-wood box and eaten warm and spoonable.
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B.
Comté cheese
Comté cheese is a traditional French cow’s milk cheese from the Jura region, known for its firm texture, complex nutty flavor, and long aging process.
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C.
Camembert cheese
Camembert cheese is a soft, creamy, surface-ripened cow’s milk cheese from France, famous for its bloomy white rind and rich, earthy flavor.
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D.
Munster cheese
Munster cheese is a strong-smelling, soft cow’s milk cheese from eastern France, especially known for its washed rind and pungent, tangy flavor.
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E.
Cheshire cheese
Cheshire cheese is a traditional, crumbly British cow's milk cheese from the county of Cheshire, known as one of England's oldest recorded cheese varieties.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cantal cheese style
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Cantal cheese style ⓘ Cantal cheese style ⓘ French cheese ⓘ cheese ⓘ cow’s milk cheese ⓘ |
| agingAffectsTexture | becomes drier and more crumbly with age ⓘ |
| agingFacility | cellars ⓘ |
| agingTime |
30 to 60 days
ⓘ
90 to 210 days ⓘ more than 240 days ⓘ |
| aroma |
buttery
ⓘ
earthy ⓘ |
| classification | hard cheese ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| curdType | pressed uncooked ⓘ |
| fatInDryMatter | about 45 percent ⓘ |
| flavor |
nutty
ⓘ
tangy ⓘ |
| flavorProfileChangeWithAge | intensifies ⓘ |
| hasVariety |
Cantal entre-deux
ⓘ
linked to:
Cantal
Cantal jeune ⓘ
linked to:
Cantal cheese
Cantal vieux ⓘ
linked to:
Cantal
|
| madeFromMilkOf | cow ⓘ |
| mainIngredient | cow’s milk ⓘ |
| milkTreatment |
pasteurized milk
ⓘ
raw milk ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Cantal mountains
ⓘ
linked to:
Cantal Mountains
|
| originCentury | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| originCountrySubregion | Massif Central ⓘ |
| pairing |
cider
ⓘ
red wine ⓘ white wine ⓘ |
| PDORegion | Auvergne ⓘ |
| PDOStatusGrantedBy | European Union ⓘ |
| productionMethod | pressed cheese ⓘ |
| protectedDesignation | PDO ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin |
Auvergne
ⓘ
Cantal department ⓘ |
| rindColor | thick greyish rind ⓘ |
| rindType | natural rind ⓘ |
| servingTemperature | room temperature ⓘ |
| texture | firm ⓘ |
| typicalColor | pale yellow paste ⓘ |
| typicalShape | large cylinder ⓘ |
| usedInDish |
cheese platters
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gratin ⓘ sandwiches ⓘ soups ⓘ |
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: Cantal cheese Description of subject: Cantal cheese is a traditional French cow’s milk cheese from the Auvergne region, known for its firm texture and nutty, tangy flavor that intensifies with age.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cantal cheese