Arrondissement of Caen
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The Arrondissement of Caen is an administrative district in the Calvados department of northwestern France, centered on the city of Caen and encompassing numerous surrounding communes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| arrondissement of Caen | 4 |
| Arrondissement of Caen canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1448784 — 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: Arrondissement of Caen Context triple: [Courseulles-sur-Mer, locatedIn, Arrondissement of Caen]
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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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B.
Arrondissement of Valence
The Arrondissement of Valence is an administrative subdivision in the Drôme department of southeastern France, centered on the city of Valence and encompassing surrounding communes.
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C.
Mâcon arrondissement
Mâcon arrondissement is an administrative district in eastern France centered on the city of Mâcon, within the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.
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D.
Ille-et-Vilaine
Ille-et-Vilaine is a department in northwestern France known for its capital Rennes and its location within the historic region of Brittany.
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E.
Seine-Maritime
Seine-Maritime is a coastal department in the Normandy region of northern France, known for its port city of Le Havre and the historic town of Rouen.
- 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: Arrondissement of Caen Target entity description: The Arrondissement of Caen is an administrative district in the Calvados department of northwestern France, centered on the city of Caen and encompassing numerous surrounding communes.
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A.
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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B.
Arrondissement of Valence
The Arrondissement of Valence is an administrative subdivision in the Drôme department of southeastern France, centered on the city of Valence and encompassing surrounding communes.
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C.
Mâcon arrondissement
Mâcon arrondissement is an administrative district in eastern France centered on the city of Mâcon, within the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.
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D.
Ille-et-Vilaine
Ille-et-Vilaine is a department in northwestern France known for its capital Rennes and its location within the historic region of Brittany.
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E.
Seine-Maritime
Seine-Maritime is a coastal department in the Normandy region of northern France, known for its port city of Le Havre and the historic town of Rouen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Arrondissement of Caen Description of subject: The Arrondissement of Caen is an administrative district in the Calvados department of northwestern France, centered on the city of Caen and encompassing numerous surrounding communes.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
arrondissement of Caen
this entity surface form:
arrondissement of Caen
this entity surface form:
arrondissement of Caen