Ovillers-la-Boisselle, Somme, France
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Ovillers-la-Boisselle is a village in the Somme department of northern France, best known for its role on the Western Front during the First World War, including the nearby Lochnagar Crater from the Battle of the Somme.
All labels observed (1)
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| Ovillers-la-Boisselle, Somme, France canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15229575 — 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: Ovillers-la-Boisselle, Somme, France Context triple: [Thiepval, Somme, France, hasNearbyVillage, Ovillers-la-Boisselle, Somme, France]
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Pozières, Somme, France
Pozières is a village in the Somme department of northern France, best known as a major World War I battlefield site on the Western Front.
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Bazentin, Picardy, France
Bazentin is a small commune in the Picardy region of northern France, historically notable as the birthplace of naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and for its location in the Somme battlefield area of World War I.
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C.
Thiepval, Somme, France
Thiepval, in the Somme department of northern France, is a village on the former Western Front of World War I, known for its major battlefield sites and war cemeteries.
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Courcelette, Somme, France
Courcelette, Somme, France is a small village in northern France best known as a major First World War Western Front battlefield site.
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Somme, France
Somme, France is a department in northern France best known as the site of major World War I battles, including the Battle of the Somme.
- 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: Ovillers-la-Boisselle, Somme, France Target entity description: Ovillers-la-Boisselle is a village in the Somme department of northern France, best known for its role on the Western Front during the First World War, including the nearby Lochnagar Crater from the Battle of the Somme.
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A.
Pozières, Somme, France
Pozières is a village in the Somme department of northern France, best known as a major World War I battlefield site on the Western Front.
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B.
Bazentin, Picardy, France
Bazentin is a small commune in the Picardy region of northern France, historically notable as the birthplace of naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and for its location in the Somme battlefield area of World War I.
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C.
Thiepval, Somme, France
Thiepval, in the Somme department of northern France, is a village on the former Western Front of World War I, known for its major battlefield sites and war cemeteries.
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D.
Courcelette, Somme, France
Courcelette, Somme, France is a small village in northern France best known as a major First World War Western Front battlefield site.
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E.
Somme, France
Somme, France is a department in northern France best known as the site of major World War I battles, including the Battle of the Somme.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.