Calvi
E136975
Calvi is a coastal town and popular tourist destination on the northwest coast of the French island of Corsica, known for its historic citadel and scenic bay.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Calvi canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T783901 — 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: Calvi Context triple: [Corsica, hasCity, Calvi]
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A.
Livorno
Livorno is a port city on Italy’s western coast, historically notable for its diverse communities and significant Jewish population.
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B.
Viareggio
Viareggio is a coastal city in Tuscany, Italy, renowned for its seaside resorts and famous annual Carnival.
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C.
Porto Ercole
Porto Ercole is a coastal village on Italy’s Monte Argentario peninsula, known as a historic Tuscan port and the place where the painter Caravaggio died.
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D.
San Savino
San Savino is a small locality within the municipality of Predappio in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.
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E.
Portoferraio
Portoferraio is the main town and administrative center of the Italian island of Elba, known for its historic harbor and association with Napoleon’s exile.
- 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: Calvi Target entity description: Calvi is a coastal town and popular tourist destination on the northwest coast of the French island of Corsica, known for its historic citadel and scenic bay.
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A.
Livorno
Livorno is a port city on Italy’s western coast, historically notable for its diverse communities and significant Jewish population.
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B.
Viareggio
Viareggio is a coastal city in Tuscany, Italy, renowned for its seaside resorts and famous annual Carnival.
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C.
Porto Ercole
Porto Ercole is a coastal village on Italy’s Monte Argentario peninsula, known as a historic Tuscan port and the place where the painter Caravaggio died.
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D.
San Savino
San Savino is a small locality within the municipality of Predappio in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.
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E.
Portoferraio
Portoferraio is the main town and administrative center of the Italian island of Elba, known for its historic harbor and association with Napoleon’s exile.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coastal town
ⓘ
commune of France ⓘ tourist destination ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | subprefecture of France ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Calvi arrondissement ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | region of Corsica ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Calvi – Sainte-Catherine Airport ⓘ |
| hasClimate | Mediterranean climate ⓘ |
| hasDemonym |
Calvais
ⓘ
Calvaises ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | Genoese citadel ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Calvi Cathedral
ⓘ
Genoese citadel ⓘ
surface form:
Genoese citadel of Calvi
Église Sainte-Marie-Majeure de Calvi ⓘ |
| hasPort | Port of Calvi ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 20260 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
beaches
ⓘ
historic citadel ⓘ marina ⓘ music festivals ⓘ scenic bay ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Corsican
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Corsica
ⓘ
Haute-Corse ⓘ arrondissement of Calvi ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Mediterranean Sea
ⓘ
northwest coast of Corsica ⓘ |
| locatedOnBodyOfWater | Bay of Calvi ⓘ |
| partOf |
France
ⓘ
Haute-Corse ⓘ
surface form:
Haute-Corse department
|
| primaryEconomicActivity |
services
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
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: Calvi Description of subject: Calvi is a coastal town and popular tourist destination on the northwest coast of the French island of Corsica, known for its historic citadel and scenic bay.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nice Port