Bénouville
E407369
Bénouville is a commune in the Calvados department of Normandy in northwestern France, known for its historic Pegasus Bridge from World War II.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bénouville canonical | 11 |
| Bénouville, Calvados | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4002834 — 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: Bénouville Context triple: [Caen Canal, flowsThrough, Bénouville]
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A.
Rouvres
Rouvres is a small French commune located in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
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B.
Yvetot
Yvetot is a small town in the Seine-Maritime department of Normandy in northern France, historically known as the seat of a medieval "kingdom" within France.
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C.
Goussainville
Goussainville is a suburban commune in the Val-d'Oise department in northern France, known for its proximity to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and its mix of residential and commercial areas.
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D.
Flémalle
Flémalle is a municipality in eastern Belgium known for its industrial heritage and location along the Meuse River in the province of Liège.
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E.
Pacy-sur-Eure
Pacy-sur-Eure is a small commune in northern France’s Normandy region, known for its picturesque riverside setting and historic town center.
- 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: Bénouville Target entity description: Bénouville is a commune in the Calvados department of Normandy in northwestern France, known for its historic Pegasus Bridge from World War II.
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A.
Rouvres
Rouvres is a small French commune located in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
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B.
Yvetot
Yvetot is a small town in the Seine-Maritime department of Normandy in northern France, historically known as the seat of a medieval "kingdom" within France.
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C.
Goussainville
Goussainville is a suburban commune in the Val-d'Oise department in northern France, known for its proximity to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and its mix of residential and commercial areas.
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D.
Flémalle
Flémalle is a municipality in eastern Belgium known for its industrial heritage and location along the Meuse River in the province of Liège.
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E.
Pacy-sur-Eure
Pacy-sur-Eure is a small commune in northern France’s Normandy region, known for its picturesque riverside setting and historic town center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: Bénouville Description of subject: Bénouville is a commune in the Calvados department of Normandy in northwestern France, known for its historic Pegasus Bridge from World War II.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.