Colombey-les-Deux-Églises
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Colombey-les-Deux-Églises is a small commune in northeastern France best known as the longtime residence and burial place of Charles de Gaulle.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Colombey-les-Deux-Églises canonical | 3 |
| Colombey-les-Deux-Églises (before 2017 merger as independent commune) | 1 |
| Colombey-les-Deux-Églises municipal council | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1256901 — 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: Colombey-les-Deux-Églises Context triple: [Charles de Gaulle, placeOfDeath, Colombey-les-Deux-Églises]
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A.
Gonesse
Gonesse is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France, known historically as a rural town and now as part of the greater Paris metropolitan area.
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B.
Compiegne
Compiègne is a historic city in northern France known for its royal château, forest, and role in significant events such as the signing of the 1918 Armistice.
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C.
Saint-Cyriens
Saint-Cyriens are the officer cadets and alumni of France’s prestigious École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, renowned as the country’s foremost military academy.
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D.
Tournus
Tournus is a historic town in eastern France’s Burgundy region, known for its Romanesque abbey and riverside setting along the Saône.
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E.
Bonneuil-en-France
Bonneuil-en-France is a small commune in the Val-d'Oise department in northern France, situated in the northeastern suburbs of Paris near major transport and aviation hubs.
- 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: Colombey-les-Deux-Églises Target entity description: Colombey-les-Deux-Églises is a small commune in northeastern France best known as the longtime residence and burial place of Charles de Gaulle.
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A.
Gonesse
Gonesse is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France, known historically as a rural town and now as part of the greater Paris metropolitan area.
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B.
Compiegne
Compiègne is a historic city in northern France known for its royal château, forest, and role in significant events such as the signing of the 1918 Armistice.
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C.
Saint-Cyriens
Saint-Cyriens are the officer cadets and alumni of France’s prestigious École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, renowned as the country’s foremost military academy.
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D.
Tournus
Tournus is a historic town in eastern France’s Burgundy region, known for its Romanesque abbey and riverside setting along the Saône.
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E.
Bonneuil-en-France
Bonneuil-en-France is a small commune in the Val-d'Oise department in northern France, situated in the northeastern suburbs of Paris near major transport and aviation hubs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | commune ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
French Fifth Republic history
ⓘ
French Resistance memory ⓘ |
| cemeteryContains |
grave of Charles de Gaulle
ⓘ
graves of de Gaulle family members ⓘ |
| contains |
Charles de Gaulle’s house La Boisserie
ⓘ
Charles de Gaulle’s tomb ⓘ Cross of Lorraine monument ⓘ Memorial Charles de Gaulle ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| departmentCode | 52 ⓘ |
| elevationMaxMeters | 402 ⓘ |
| elevationMinMeters | 252 ⓘ |
| formerName |
Colombey-les-Deux-Églises
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Colombey-les-Deux-Églises (before 2017 merger as independent commune)
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| hasHeritage | sites related to Charles de Gaulle ⓘ |
| hasMonument | large Cross of Lorraine overlooking the village ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalGovernment |
Colombey-les-Deux-Églises
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Colombey-les-Deux-Églises municipal council
|
| hasReligiousBuilding | Saint-Louis church of Colombey-les-Deux-Églises ⓘ |
| hasRoadAccess |
D2 road
ⓘ
D619 road ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | site of national remembrance for France ⓘ |
| INSEECODE | 52140 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
burial place of Charles de Gaulle
ⓘ
longtime residence of Charles de Gaulle ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Grand Est
ⓘ
Haute-Marne ⓘ historical province of Champagne ⓘ northeastern France ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Bar-sur-Aube
ⓘ
Chaumont ⓘ |
| mergedInto | Colombey-les-Deux-Églises (new commune created 2017) ⓘ |
| notableResident |
Charles de Gaulle
ⓘ
Yvonne de Gaulle ⓘ |
| partOf |
arrondissement of Langres
ⓘ
surface form:
arrondissement of Chaumont
canton of Châteauvillain ⓘ |
| postalCode | 52330 ⓘ |
| region |
Champagne, France
ⓘ
surface form:
Champagne area
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| symbol | Cross of Lorraine ⓘ |
| timeZone |
CEST
ⓘ
CET ⓘ |
| tourismType | memorial tourism ⓘ |
| touristAttraction |
La Boisserie museum
ⓘ
Memorial Charles de Gaulle ⓘ
surface form:
Memorial Charles de Gaulle museum
|
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: Colombey-les-Deux-Églises Description of subject: Colombey-les-Deux-Églises is a small commune in northeastern France best known as the longtime residence and burial place of Charles de Gaulle.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Colombey-les-Deux-Églises (before 2017 merger as independent commune)
Colombey-les-Deux-Églises
→
hasMunicipalGovernment
→
Colombey-les-Deux-Églises
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Colombey-les-Deux-Églises municipal council