Saint Anne d’Auray (Brittany, France)
E26593
Saint Anne d’Auray in Brittany, France is a major Catholic pilgrimage site and sanctuary dedicated to Saint Anne, renowned for its basilica and centuries-old devotional traditions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saint Anne d’Auray (Brittany, France) canonical | 1 |
| Sainte-Anne-d’Auray, Brittany, France | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T207851 — 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: Saint Anne d’Auray (Brittany, France) Context triple: [Saint Anne, commemoratedBy, Saint Anne d’Auray (Brittany, France)]
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Auxerre, France
Auxerre, France is a historic city in the Burgundy region known for its medieval architecture, Gothic cathedral, and role as a cultural and economic center along the Yonne River.
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Arromanches-les-Bains
Arromanches-les-Bains is a coastal town in Normandy, France, best known for its role in the D-Day landings and the remains of the Mulberry artificial harbor just offshore.
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C.
Fontainebleau, France
Fontainebleau, France is a historic town southeast of Paris best known for its vast forest and royal château, long associated with French monarchs and outdoor recreation.
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D.
Normandy
Normandy is a historic region in northern France, famous for its medieval duchy, its role in the Norman Conquest of England, and as the site of the D-Day landings in World War II.
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E.
Ile de Puteaux
Île de Puteaux is a small Seine River island in the western suburbs of Paris, known for its sports facilities and role as a venue during the 1900 Summer Olympics.
- 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: Saint Anne d’Auray (Brittany, France) Target entity description: Saint Anne d’Auray in Brittany, France is a major Catholic pilgrimage site and sanctuary dedicated to Saint Anne, renowned for its basilica and centuries-old devotional traditions.
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A.
Auxerre, France
Auxerre, France is a historic city in the Burgundy region known for its medieval architecture, Gothic cathedral, and role as a cultural and economic center along the Yonne River.
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B.
Arromanches-les-Bains
Arromanches-les-Bains is a coastal town in Normandy, France, best known for its role in the D-Day landings and the remains of the Mulberry artificial harbor just offshore.
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C.
Fontainebleau, France
Fontainebleau, France is a historic town southeast of Paris best known for its vast forest and royal château, long associated with French monarchs and outdoor recreation.
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D.
Normandy
Normandy is a historic region in northern France, famous for its medieval duchy, its role in the Norman Conquest of England, and as the site of the D-Day landings in World War II.
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E.
Ile de Puteaux
Île de Puteaux is a small Seine River island in the western suburbs of Paris, known for its sports facilities and role as a venue during the 1900 Summer Olympics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic pilgrimage site
ⓘ
Marian sanctuary ⓘ place of worship ⓘ religious sanctuary ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Breton Catholic identity
ⓘ
family and grandparents’ devotion ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| denomination |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
|
| devotedTo | Saint Anne ⓘ |
| hasAnnualEvent |
grand pardon of Sainte-Anne
ⓘ
major July pilgrimage ⓘ |
| hasArchitectureFeature | neo-Gothic basilica ⓘ |
| hasDevotionalTradition |
Marian and family pilgrimages
ⓘ
centuries-old pilgrimage ⓘ devotion to Saint Anne ⓘ novenas ⓘ processions ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
large esplanade for outdoor ceremonies
ⓘ
memorial monuments ⓘ stations of the cross ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | Breton Catholic tradition ⓘ |
| hasLanguageContext |
Breton
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| hasLiturgicalUse |
Eucharistic adoration
ⓘ
Masses ⓘ confessions ⓘ processions ⓘ |
| hasPart | Basilica of Sainte-Anne d'Auray ⓘ |
| hasStatus | major Catholic sanctuary in western France ⓘ |
| hasTitle | principal sanctuary of Saint Anne in France ⓘ |
| hasVisitorType |
pilgrims
ⓘ
tourists ⓘ |
| isImportantFor |
Catholic devotional life in Brittany
ⓘ
regional religious tourism ⓘ |
| isMajorPilgrimageSiteFor |
Brittany
ⓘ
France ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brittany
ⓘ
Morbihan ⓘ |
| pilgrimageType | Catholic pilgrimage ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
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: Saint Anne d’Auray (Brittany, France) Description of subject: Saint Anne d’Auray in Brittany, France is a major Catholic pilgrimage site and sanctuary dedicated to Saint Anne, renowned for its basilica and centuries-old devotional traditions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sainte-Anne-d’Auray, Brittany, France