Château d’Yquem
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Château d’Yquem is a legendary Bordeaux wine estate renowned worldwide for producing some of the most prestigious and long-lived sweet wines from the Sauternes appellation.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Château d’Yquem canonical | 4 |
| Château d'Yquem | 2 |
| Y (Ygrec) de Château d’Yquem | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2491307 — 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: Château d’Yquem Context triple: [Sauternes, notableEstate, Château d’Yquem]
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Château La Mission Haut-Brion
Château La Mission Haut-Brion is a renowned Bordeaux wine estate in Pessac-Léognan, celebrated for its powerful, long-lived red wines that rival the region’s First Growths.
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B.
Château Haut-Brion
Château Haut-Brion is a historic Bordeaux wine estate renowned as one of the region’s premier grand cru producers, celebrated for its age-worthy, complex red and white wines.
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C.
Château Le Pin
Château Le Pin is a tiny, cult-status Bordeaux wine estate in Pomerol renowned for producing some of the world’s most sought-after and expensive Merlot-based wines.
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D.
Domaine de Chevalier
Domaine de Chevalier is a renowned Bordeaux wine estate in the Pessac-Léognan appellation, celebrated for producing both high-quality red and white grand cru classé wines.
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E.
Château La Tour Haut-Brion
Château La Tour Haut-Brion was a renowned, now-discontinued Bordeaux wine estate in Pessac-Léognan, celebrated for its high-quality red wines and historic association with the Haut-Brion properties.
- 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: Château d’Yquem Target entity description: Château d’Yquem is a legendary Bordeaux wine estate renowned worldwide for producing some of the most prestigious and long-lived sweet wines from the Sauternes appellation.
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A.
Château La Mission Haut-Brion
Château La Mission Haut-Brion is a renowned Bordeaux wine estate in Pessac-Léognan, celebrated for its powerful, long-lived red wines that rival the region’s First Growths.
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B.
Château Haut-Brion
Château Haut-Brion is a historic Bordeaux wine estate renowned as one of the region’s premier grand cru producers, celebrated for its age-worthy, complex red and white wines.
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C.
Château Le Pin
Château Le Pin is a tiny, cult-status Bordeaux wine estate in Pomerol renowned for producing some of the world’s most sought-after and expensive Merlot-based wines.
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D.
Domaine de Chevalier
Domaine de Chevalier is a renowned Bordeaux wine estate in the Pessac-Léognan appellation, celebrated for producing both high-quality red and white grand cru classé wines.
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E.
Château La Tour Haut-Brion
Château La Tour Haut-Brion was a renowned, now-discontinued Bordeaux wine estate in Pessac-Léognan, celebrated for its high-quality red wines and historic association with the Haut-Brion properties.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bordeaux wine estate
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Sauternes producer ⓘ vineyard ⓘ wine estate ⓘ |
| agingDuration | around 3 years in barrel (approximate, varies by vintage) ⓘ |
| agingPotential |
can age for many decades
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some vintages can age for over a century ⓘ |
| agingVessel | oak barrels ⓘ |
| appellation |
Sauternes AOC
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linked to:
Sauternes
|
| classification | Premier Cru Supérieur ⓘ |
| classifiedIn |
1855 Bordeaux Wine Official Classification
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linked to:
1855 Bordeaux classification
|
| collectability | highly collectible wine ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| fermentationVessel | oak barrels ⓘ |
| foundedBefore | 1855 classification ⓘ |
| grapePlantingShare | majority Sémillon with minority Sauvignon blanc ⓘ |
| grapeVariety |
Sauvignon blanc
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linked to:
Sauvignon Blanc
Sémillon ⓘ |
| grapeVarietyShare |
Sauvignon blanc is the minority variety
ⓘ
linked to:
Sauvignon Blanc
Sémillon is the dominant variety ⓘ
linked to:
Sémillon
|
| harvestMethod |
manual harvest
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multiple passes through vineyard (tries) ⓘ |
| hasSecondWine |
Y (Ygrec) de Château d’Yquem
ⓘ
linked to:
Château d’Yquem
|
| historicalReputation | one of the world’s most prestigious sweet wines ⓘ |
| isOnlyEstateWithRank | only Sauternes classified as Premier Cru Supérieur in 1855 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bordeaux
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Gironde ⓘ Graves wine region ⓘ Nouvelle-Aquitaine ⓘ Sauternes ⓘ |
| marketPosition | luxury wine ⓘ |
| notableFor |
botrytized wines
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exceptional aging potential ⓘ high residual sugar and high acidity balance ⓘ long-lived sweet wines ⓘ low yields ⓘ multiple selective pickings of grapes ⓘ |
| owner |
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (majority owner)
ⓘ
linked to:
LVMH
|
| previousOwnerFamily | Lur-Saluces family ⓘ |
| region | Bordeaux wine region ⓘ |
| secondWineStyle | dry white Bordeaux ⓘ |
| servingSuggestion |
can be paired with blue cheese
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can be paired with foie gras ⓘ often served as dessert wine ⓘ |
| typicalAlcohol | around 13–14% ABV ⓘ |
| typicalProduction | low production compared to vineyard size ⓘ |
| typicalResidualSugar | high residual sugar for Sauternes ⓘ |
| uses | botrytis cinerea (noble rot) ⓘ |
| vineyardSize | approximately 100 hectares planted ⓘ |
| website | https://yquem.fr/ ⓘ |
| wineColor | white ⓘ |
| wineStyle | sweet white wine ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Château d’Yquem Description of subject: Château d’Yquem is a legendary Bordeaux wine estate renowned worldwide for producing some of the most prestigious and long-lived sweet wines from the Sauternes appellation.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Château d’Yquem
linked to: Château d’Yquem
linked to: Château d’Yquem
subject linked to:
Sauternes and Barsac