canton of Modane
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The canton of Modane is an administrative division in the Savoie department of southeastern France, centered around the town of Modane in the French Alps.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| canton of Modane canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2664469 — 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: canton of Modane Context triple: [Modane, isPartOf, canton of Modane]
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A.
Canton of Le Mont-Blanc
The Canton of Le Mont-Blanc was a short-lived administrative division of the First French Empire, created in the early 19th century around the Mont Blanc region and including the town of Chamonix.
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B.
Lanslebourg-Mont-Cenis
Lanslebourg-Mont-Cenis is a village and former commune in the Savoie department of southeastern France, situated in the Maurienne Valley near the Mont Cenis Pass in the French Alps.
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Bourg-Saint-Maurice
Bourg-Saint-Maurice is a French Alpine town in the Savoie department, known as a gateway to major ski resorts such as Les Arcs in the Graian Alps.
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D.
Montgenèvre
Montgenèvre is a French Alpine ski resort village in the Hautes-Alpes department, known for its high-altitude slopes and location near the Italian border.
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E.
Modane
Modane is a French Alpine town in the Savoie department known as a key transit point through the Fréjus Road and Rail Tunnels between France and Italy.
- 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: canton of Modane Target entity description: The canton of Modane is an administrative division in the Savoie department of southeastern France, centered around the town of Modane in the French Alps.
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A.
Canton of Le Mont-Blanc
The Canton of Le Mont-Blanc was a short-lived administrative division of the First French Empire, created in the early 19th century around the Mont Blanc region and including the town of Chamonix.
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B.
Lanslebourg-Mont-Cenis
Lanslebourg-Mont-Cenis is a village and former commune in the Savoie department of southeastern France, situated in the Maurienne Valley near the Mont Cenis Pass in the French Alps.
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C.
Bourg-Saint-Maurice
Bourg-Saint-Maurice is a French Alpine town in the Savoie department, known as a gateway to major ski resorts such as Les Arcs in the Graian Alps.
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D.
Montgenèvre
Montgenèvre is a French Alpine ski resort village in the Hautes-Alpes department, known for its high-altitude slopes and location near the Italian border.
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E.
Modane
Modane is a French Alpine town in the Savoie department known as a key transit point through the Fréjus Road and Rail Tunnels between France and Italy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | canton of France ⓘ |
| administrativeCenter | Modane ⓘ |
| border | Italy ⓘ |
| contains |
Aussois
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Avrieux ⓘ Bessans ⓘ Bramans ⓘ Fourneaux ⓘ Lanslebourg-Mont-Cenis ⓘ Lanslevillard ⓘ Modane ⓘ Sollières-Sardières ⓘ Termignon ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| elects | departmental councillors of Savoie ⓘ |
| governmentType | French canton-level administrative division ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
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French Alps ⓘ Maurienne Valley ⓘ Savoie department ⓘ southeastern France ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Modane ⓘ |
| partOf |
French departmental electoral districts
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arrondissement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Savoie department ⓘ |
| timeZone | CET ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CEST ⓘ |
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: canton of Modane Description of subject: The canton of Modane is an administrative division in the Savoie department of southeastern France, centered around the town of Modane in the French Alps.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.