Modane
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Modane is a French Alpine town in the Savoie department known as a key transit point through the Fréjus Road and Rail Tunnels between France and Italy.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Modane canonical | 18 |
| Modane (France) | 1 |
| Modane, France | 1 |
| commune of Modane | 1 |
| municipal council of Modane | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T238769 — 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: Modane Context triple: [French–Italian border, hasBorderTown, Modane]
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A.
Montgenèvre
Montgenèvre is a French Alpine ski resort village in the Hautes-Alpes department, known for its high-altitude slopes and location near the Italian border.
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B.
Veyrier
Veyrier is a municipality in southwestern Switzerland located just outside the city of Geneva, near the French border.
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C.
Chamonix
Chamonix is a renowned French alpine town and ski resort in the Haute-Savoie region, famous for its dramatic mountain scenery and mountaineering history.
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D.
Moulins
Moulins is a historic town in central France known for its well-preserved medieval architecture and cultural heritage.
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E.
Vercors Massif
The Vercors Massif is a rugged limestone plateau and mountain range in southeastern France, known for its dramatic cliffs, deep gorges, and role as a stronghold of the French Resistance during World War II.
- 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: Modane Target entity description: Modane is a French Alpine town in the Savoie department known as a key transit point through the Fréjus Road and Rail Tunnels between France and Italy.
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A.
Montgenèvre
Montgenèvre is a French Alpine ski resort village in the Hautes-Alpes department, known for its high-altitude slopes and location near the Italian border.
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B.
Veyrier
Veyrier is a municipality in southwestern Switzerland located just outside the city of Geneva, near the French border.
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C.
Chamonix
Chamonix is a renowned French alpine town and ski resort in the Haute-Savoie region, famous for its dramatic mountain scenery and mountaineering history.
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D.
Moulins
Moulins is a historic town in central France known for its well-preserved medieval architecture and cultural heritage.
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E.
Vercors Massif
The Vercors Massif is a rugged limestone plateau and mountain range in southeastern France, known for its dramatic cliffs, deep gorges, and role as a stronghold of the French Resistance during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Modane Description of subject: Modane is a French Alpine town in the Savoie department known as a key transit point through the Fréjus Road and Rail Tunnels between France and Italy.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Modane
linked to: Modane