Douaumont, Meuse
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Douaumont, Meuse is a small commune in northeastern France best known as the site of major World War I battles and the nearby Fort Douaumont and Douaumont Ossuary.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Douaumont, Meuse canonical | 1 |
| Douaumont, Meuse, France | 1 |
| Douaumont@fr | 1 |
| municipal council of Douaumont | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4346559 — 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: Douaumont, Meuse Context triple: [Fort Douaumont, locatedIn, Douaumont, Meuse]
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A.
Rocourt
Rocourt is a district of Liège in present-day Belgium, historically notable as the site of the 1746 Battle of Rocoux during the War of the Austrian Succession.
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B.
Comines
Comines is a town situated along the Lys River in the historic Flanders region on the border between France and Belgium.
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C.
Montmédy
Montmédy is a fortified town in northeastern France near the Luxembourg and Belgian borders, historically significant as the intended royal refuge during the failed Flight to Varennes in 1791.
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D.
Régnié
Régnié is a French red wine appellation and one of the ten Beaujolais crus, known for its fruity, aromatic Gamay-based wines.
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E.
Mondercange
Mondercange is a commune and small town in southwestern Luxembourg, known for hosting the headquarters and training center of the national football association.
- 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: Douaumont, Meuse Target entity description: Douaumont, Meuse is a small commune in northeastern France best known as the site of major World War I battles and the nearby Fort Douaumont and Douaumont Ossuary.
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A.
Rocourt
Rocourt is a district of Liège in present-day Belgium, historically notable as the site of the 1746 Battle of Rocoux during the War of the Austrian Succession.
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B.
Comines
Comines is a town situated along the Lys River in the historic Flanders region on the border between France and Belgium.
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C.
Montmédy
Montmédy is a fortified town in northeastern France near the Luxembourg and Belgian borders, historically significant as the intended royal refuge during the failed Flight to Varennes in 1791.
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D.
Régnié
Régnié is a French red wine appellation and one of the ten Beaujolais crus, known for its fruity, aromatic Gamay-based wines.
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E.
Mondercange
Mondercange is a commune and small town in southwestern Luxembourg, known for hosting the headquarters and training center of the national football association.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | commune ⓘ |
| contains |
Douaumont Ossuary
ⓘ
Fort Douaumont military fortification ⓘ French and German military cemeteries ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| departmentCode | 55 ⓘ |
| hasBuilding |
Douaumont Ossuary tower
ⓘ
linked to:
Douaumont Ossuary
chapel at Douaumont Ossuary ⓘ |
| hasCemetery | Douaumont military cemetery ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
dominated by memorial and battlefield sites
ⓘ
small population ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
extensive war cemeteries
ⓘ
major World War I memorials ⓘ preserved battlefield landscape ⓘ |
| hasHeritageSite |
Douaumont National Necropolis
ⓘ
linked to:
Douaumont Ossuary
Douaumont Ossuary ⓘ Fort Douaumont ⓘ |
| hasName | Douaumont ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasTimezone |
CEST
ⓘ
CET ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | World War I ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Douaumont Ossuary
ⓘ
Fort Douaumont ⓘ World War I battlefields ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Arrondissement of Verdun
ⓘ
linked to:
arrondissement of Verdun
Canton of Belleville-sur-Meuse ⓘ Grand Est region ⓘ
linked to:
Grand Est
Meuse department ⓘ north of Verdun ⓘ northeast of Paris ⓘ northeastern France ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
city of Verdun
ⓘ
linked to:
Verdun, France
|
| locatedOn |
Verdun battlefield
ⓘ
linked to:
Verdun, France
|
| memorializedConflict |
Battle of Verdun
ⓘ
First World War ⓘ
linked to:
World War I
|
| nearbyWatercourse |
Meuse River
ⓘ
linked to:
Meuse
|
| partOf | historical region of Lorraine ⓘ |
| region | Grand Est ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
Battle of Verdun
ⓘ
World War I Western Front fighting ⓘ |
| tourismType |
memorial tourism
ⓘ
war tourism ⓘ |
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: Douaumont, Meuse Description of subject: Douaumont, Meuse is a small commune in northeastern France best known as the site of major World War I battles and the nearby Fort Douaumont and Douaumont Ossuary.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Max Edrei
linked to: Douaumont, Meuse
linked to: Douaumont, Meuse
linked to: Douaumont, Meuse