Cotentin Peninsula
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The Cotentin Peninsula is a region in northwestern France jutting into the English Channel, known for its strategic role in World War II and its historic coastal landscapes.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cotentin Peninsula canonical | 78 |
| Cotentin | 8 |
| Armorican peninsula | 3 |
| Cherbourg Peninsula | 1 |
| Cotentin Marshes | 1 |
| Cotentin Peninsula (broad area) | 1 |
| Cotentin Peninsula area | 1 |
| Cotentin marshes | 1 |
| northern Cotentin Peninsula | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T722276 — 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: Cotentin Peninsula Context triple: [Utah Beach, locatedOn, Cotentin Peninsula]
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A.
Île d’Yeu
Île d’Yeu is a small French Atlantic island off the Vendée coast, known for its rugged coastline, sandy beaches, and historic fortifications.
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B.
Jutland Peninsula
The Jutland Peninsula is the large mainland portion of Denmark extending northward from Germany between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
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C.
Brittany
Brittany is a historic cultural region in northwest France known for its distinct Celtic heritage, Breton language, rugged coastline, and strong Catholic traditions.
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D.
Corsica
Corsica is a mountainous Mediterranean island and French territorial collectivity known for its distinct culture, rugged coastline, and as the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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E.
Roc d’Azur
Roc d’Azur is a major annual mountain biking festival and race event held in France, attracting thousands of amateur and professional cyclists from around the world.
- 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: Cotentin Peninsula Target entity description: The Cotentin Peninsula is a region in northwestern France jutting into the English Channel, known for its strategic role in World War II and its historic coastal landscapes.
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A.
Île d’Yeu
Île d’Yeu is a small French Atlantic island off the Vendée coast, known for its rugged coastline, sandy beaches, and historic fortifications.
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B.
Jutland Peninsula
The Jutland Peninsula is the large mainland portion of Denmark extending northward from Germany between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
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C.
Brittany
Brittany is a historic cultural region in northwest France known for its distinct Celtic heritage, Breton language, rugged coastline, and strong Catholic traditions.
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D.
Corsica
Corsica is a mountainous Mediterranean island and French territorial collectivity known for its distinct culture, rugged coastline, and as the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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E.
Roc d’Azur
Roc d’Azur is a major annual mountain biking festival and race event held in France, attracting thousands of amateur and professional cyclists from around the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Cotentin Peninsula Description of subject: The Cotentin Peninsula is a region in northwestern France jutting into the English Channel, known for its strategic role in World War II and its historic coastal landscapes.
Referenced by (95)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
German 716th Infantry Division
linked to: Cotentin Peninsula
linked to: Cotentin Peninsula
subject linked to:
Manche department
subject linked to:
Manche department
subject linked to:
medieval Duchy of Normandy
subject linked to:
commune of Granville
linked to: Cotentin Peninsula
linked to: Cotentin Peninsula
linked to: Cotentin Peninsula
linked to: Cotentin Peninsula
linked to: Cotentin Peninsula
linked to: Cotentin Peninsula
subject linked to:
INSEE 50 (Manche)
subject linked to:
INSEE 50 (Manche)