Avallon
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Avallon is a historic commune in central France known for its medieval architecture and scenic location on a granite outcrop in the Burgundy region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Avallon canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2812153 — 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: Avallon Context triple: [Yonne department, subprefecture, Avallon]
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A.
Tynaarlo
Tynaarlo is a municipality in the northeastern Netherlands known for its rural character and location between the cities of Groningen and Assen.
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B.
Yeola
Yeola is a town in the Nashik district of Maharashtra, India, known historically as the birthplace of the Indian freedom fighter Tatya Tope.
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C.
Mauregard
Mauregard is a small commune in the Seine-et-Marne department of the Île-de-France region in north-central France, situated near Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.
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D.
Edenborn
Edenborn is a science fiction novel by Nick Sagan that continues his post-apocalyptic series exploring genetic engineering and the future of humanity.
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E.
Cornas
Cornas is a prestigious Northern Rhône wine appellation in France renowned for producing powerful, age-worthy red wines exclusively from Syrah grapes.
- 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: Avallon Target entity description: Avallon is a historic commune in central France known for its medieval architecture and scenic location on a granite outcrop in the Burgundy region.
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A.
Tynaarlo
Tynaarlo is a municipality in the northeastern Netherlands known for its rural character and location between the cities of Groningen and Assen.
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B.
Yeola
Yeola is a town in the Nashik district of Maharashtra, India, known historically as the birthplace of the Indian freedom fighter Tatya Tope.
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C.
Mauregard
Mauregard is a small commune in the Seine-et-Marne department of the Île-de-France region in north-central France, situated near Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.
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D.
Edenborn
Edenborn is a science fiction novel by Nick Sagan that continues his post-apocalyptic series exploring genetic engineering and the future of humanity.
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E.
Cornas
Cornas is a prestigious Northern Rhône wine appellation in France renowned for producing powerful, age-worthy red wines exclusively from Syrah grapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | subprefecture of Yonne ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| demonym | Avallonnais ⓘ |
| departmentCapitalDistance | approximately 50 km from Auxerre ⓘ |
| departmentCode | 89 ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 230 metres ⓘ |
| geologicalFeature | granite outcrop ⓘ |
| hasHeritage |
historic town center
ⓘ
medieval ramparts ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | Collégiale Saint-Lazare d’Avallon ⓘ |
| historicRegion | Burgundy ⓘ |
| historicStatus | medieval town ⓘ |
| INSEECODE | 89025 ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
arrondissement of Avallon
ⓘ
surface form:
Arrondissement of Avallon
Canton of Avallon ⓘ |
| knownFor |
medieval architecture
ⓘ
scenic location ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
ⓘ
surface form:
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region
Yonne department ⓘ central France ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Morvan Massif
ⓘ
surface form:
Morvan massif
|
| postalCode | 89200 ⓘ |
| regionCapitalDistance | approximately 100 km from Dijon ⓘ |
| river | Cousin River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadConnection | close to A6 motorway ⓘ |
| timeZone | CET ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CEST ⓘ |
| tourism | gateway to Morvan Regional Natural Park ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Avallon Description of subject: Avallon is a historic commune in central France known for its medieval architecture and scenic location on a granite outcrop in the Burgundy region.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.