Vézelay
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Vézelay is a historic hilltop village in central France renowned for its Romanesque Basilica of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine and its role as a medieval pilgrimage site on the route to Santiago de Compostela.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vézelay canonical | 8 |
| Vézelay route | 2 |
| Basilica of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Vézelay | 1 |
| Hill of Vézelay | 1 |
| Parish of Vézelay | 1 |
| Vézelay Abbey | 1 |
| Vézelay and its hill | 1 |
| Vézelay, Church and Hill | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T522725 — 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: Vézelay Context triple: [Theodore Beza, birthPlace, Vézelay]
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A.
Reims Cathedral
Reims Cathedral is a historic Gothic cathedral in northeastern France renowned as the traditional coronation site of French kings.
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Cluny Abbey
Cluny Abbey was a powerful medieval Benedictine monastery in eastern France that became a major center of religious reform, art, and architecture in Western Europe.
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Versailles Cathedral
Versailles Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Versailles, France, notable for its 18th-century architecture and status as the seat of the Diocese of Versailles.
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D.
Le Puy-en-Velay
Le Puy-en-Velay is a historic town in south-central France renowned for its volcanic landscape, Marian pilgrimage site, and traditional lace-making.
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E.
Brienne-le-Château
Brienne-le-Château is a commune in northeastern France best known as the town where Napoleon Bonaparte attended military school in his youth.
- 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: Vézelay Target entity description: Vézelay is a historic hilltop village in central France renowned for its Romanesque Basilica of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine and its role as a medieval pilgrimage site on the route to Santiago de Compostela.
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A.
Reims Cathedral
Reims Cathedral is a historic Gothic cathedral in northeastern France renowned as the traditional coronation site of French kings.
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B.
Cluny Abbey
Cluny Abbey was a powerful medieval Benedictine monastery in eastern France that became a major center of religious reform, art, and architecture in Western Europe.
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C.
Versailles Cathedral
Versailles Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Versailles, France, notable for its 18th-century architecture and status as the seat of the Diocese of Versailles.
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D.
Le Puy-en-Velay
Le Puy-en-Velay is a historic town in south-central France renowned for its volcanic landscape, Marian pilgrimage site, and traditional lace-making.
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E.
Brienne-le-Château
Brienne-le-Château is a commune in northeastern France best known as the town where Napoleon Bonaparte attended military school in his youth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: Vézelay Description of subject: Vézelay is a historic hilltop village in central France renowned for its Romanesque Basilica of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine and its role as a medieval pilgrimage site on the route to Santiago de Compostela.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
de Bèze
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Basilica of Saint Mary Magdalene of Vézelay
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UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteName
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Vézelay, Church and Hill
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linked to: Vézelay