La Petite Maison
E161372
La Petite Maison is a tiny stone cottage on the remote Les Minquiers reef in the Channel Islands, often cited as one of the smallest inhabited houses in the world.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Petite Maison canonical | 1 |
| The Little House | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1416759 — 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: La Petite Maison Context triple: [Les Minquiers, hasPart, La Petite Maison]
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A.
Heidi
Heidi is a classic 1881 children’s novel by Swiss author Johanna Spyri about an orphan girl growing up in the Swiss Alps, renowned for its themes of nature, innocence, and moral development.
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B.
Whilomville Stories
Whilomville Stories is a collection of short stories by Stephen Crane that depict small-town American life with his characteristic realism and psychological insight.
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C.
Corduroy
"Corduroy" is a popular rock song by the American band Pearl Jam, known for its dynamic structure and emotionally charged lyrics.
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D.
Eight Cousins
Eight Cousins is a 19th-century coming-of-age novel by Louisa May Alcott that follows orphaned Rose Campbell as she grows up under the care of her unconventional uncle and seven male cousins.
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E.
The Farmer’s Daughter
The Farmer’s Daughter is a 1947 American romantic comedy film starring Loretta Young as a Swedish-American farm girl who becomes involved in politics.
- 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: La Petite Maison Target entity description: La Petite Maison is a tiny stone cottage on the remote Les Minquiers reef in the Channel Islands, often cited as one of the smallest inhabited houses in the world.
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A.
Heidi
Heidi is a classic 1881 children’s novel by Swiss author Johanna Spyri about an orphan girl growing up in the Swiss Alps, renowned for its themes of nature, innocence, and moral development.
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B.
Whilomville Stories
Whilomville Stories is a collection of short stories by Stephen Crane that depict small-town American life with his characteristic realism and psychological insight.
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C.
Corduroy
"Corduroy" is a popular rock song by the American band Pearl Jam, known for its dynamic structure and emotionally charged lyrics.
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D.
Eight Cousins
Eight Cousins is a 19th-century coming-of-age novel by Louisa May Alcott that follows orphaned Rose Campbell as she grows up under the care of her unconventional uncle and seven male cousins.
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E.
The Farmer’s Daughter
The Farmer’s Daughter is a 1947 American romantic comedy film starring Loretta Young as a Swedish-American farm girl who becomes involved in politics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cottage
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house ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| access | only accessible by boat ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | cottage ⓘ |
| climate | temperate oceanic ⓘ |
| country | Jersey ⓘ |
| describedAs |
one of the smallest inhabited houses in the world
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tiny stone cottage ⓘ |
| environment |
marine
ⓘ
tidal ⓘ |
| hasAmenity | basic shelter only ⓘ |
| hasCondition | simple and rustic ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole | marker of territorial presence on Les Minquiers ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
basic furnishings
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pitched roof ⓘ single small room ⓘ small door ⓘ small windows ⓘ stone walls ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
shelter for visitors
ⓘ
symbolic habitation of Les Minquiers ⓘ |
| hasTourismRole | photographic landmark ⓘ |
| languageOfName | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Channel Islands
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English Channel ⓘ Les Minquiers ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | travel articles about the smallest houses in the world ⓘ |
| nameMeaning |
La Petite Maison
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Little House
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| near |
coast of France
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island of Jersey ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a symbol of habitation on Les Minquiers
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extremely small floor area ⓘ remote location ⓘ |
| ownership | under jurisdiction of Jersey authorities ⓘ |
| partOf | built structures on Les Minquiers ⓘ |
| region |
Channel Islands (crown dependencies)
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surface form:
Channel Islands archipelago
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| situatedOn |
Les Minquiers
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surface form:
Les Minquiers reef
remote reef ⓘ |
| status |
inhabited occasionally
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uninhabited for most of the year ⓘ |
| surroundedBy |
rocks and sandbanks
ⓘ
tidal reef ⓘ |
| usedBy |
fishermen
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visitors to Les Minquiers ⓘ yachtsmen ⓘ |
| visibility |
exposed at low tide
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surrounded by sea at high tide ⓘ |
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: La Petite Maison Description of subject: La Petite Maison is a tiny stone cottage on the remote Les Minquiers reef in the Channel Islands, often cited as one of the smallest inhabited houses in the world.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Little House