Maine-et-Loire department
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The Maine-et-Loire department is an administrative region in western France centered on the city of Angers, known for its historic châteaux, vineyards, and role as part of the Loire Valley UNESCO World Heritage area.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maine-et-Loire department canonical | 5 |
| Maine-et-Loire area | 1 |
| department of Maine-et-Loire | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1088403 — 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: Maine-et-Loire department Context triple: [Anjou, modernSuccessorTerritory, Maine-et-Loire department]
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A.
Loire-Atlantique department
Loire-Atlantique department is an administrative division in western France on the Atlantic coast, historically part of Brittany and known for its capital city, Nantes.
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B.
Calvados department
The Calvados department is an administrative region in Normandy, northwestern France, known for its historic D-Day landing beaches, picturesque coastal towns, and production of the apple brandy that shares its name.
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C.
Mayenne
Mayenne is a river in western France that flows through the regions of Normandy and Pays de la Loire before joining other waterways to form the Loire basin.
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D.
Ain department
Ain department is an administrative region in eastern France known for its diverse landscapes, historic towns, and proximity to both the Alps and the Swiss border.
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E.
Gironde department
The Gironde department is an administrative region in southwestern France, known for encompassing much of the Bordeaux wine country and the city of Bordeaux.
- 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: Maine-et-Loire department Target entity description: The Maine-et-Loire department is an administrative region in western France centered on the city of Angers, known for its historic châteaux, vineyards, and role as part of the Loire Valley UNESCO World Heritage area.
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A.
Loire-Atlantique department
Loire-Atlantique department is an administrative division in western France on the Atlantic coast, historically part of Brittany and known for its capital city, Nantes.
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B.
Calvados department
The Calvados department is an administrative region in Normandy, northwestern France, known for its historic D-Day landing beaches, picturesque coastal towns, and production of the apple brandy that shares its name.
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C.
Mayenne
Mayenne is a river in western France that flows through the regions of Normandy and Pays de la Loire before joining other waterways to form the Loire basin.
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D.
Ain department
Ain department is an administrative region in eastern France known for its diverse landscapes, historic towns, and proximity to both the Alps and the Swiss border.
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E.
Gironde department
The Gironde department is an administrative region in southwestern France, known for encompassing much of the Bordeaux wine country and the city of Bordeaux.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Maine-et-Loire department Description of subject: The Maine-et-Loire department is an administrative region in western France centered on the city of Angers, known for its historic châteaux, vineyards, and role as part of the Loire Valley UNESCO World Heritage area.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Maine-et-Loire area
subject surface form:
Gizeux
this entity surface form:
department of Maine-et-Loire