Courseulles-sur-Mer
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Courseulles-sur-Mer is a coastal town in Normandy, France, known for its role in the D-Day landings and its proximity to the historic Allied invasion beaches.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Courseulles-sur-Mer canonical | 11 |
| Bernières-sur-Mer | 1 |
| Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T127920 — 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: Courseulles-sur-Mer Context triple: [Gold Beach, nearestTown, Courseulles-sur-Mer]
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A.
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.
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B.
Old Town (Vieux-Nice)
Old Town (Vieux-Nice) is the historic quarter of Nice, France, known for its narrow winding streets, colorful facades, bustling markets, and vibrant Mediterranean atmosphere.
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C.
Ajaccio
Ajaccio is a coastal city on the French island of Corsica, best known as the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte and now a popular Mediterranean tourist destination.
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D.
Arles
Arles is a historic city in southern France renowned for its well-preserved Roman monuments and its association with the painter Vincent van Gogh.
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E.
Calais
Calais is a major French port city on the northern coast, serving as one of the primary crossing points between France and England.
- 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: Courseulles-sur-Mer Target entity description: Courseulles-sur-Mer is a coastal town in Normandy, France, known for its role in the D-Day landings and its proximity to the historic Allied invasion beaches.
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A.
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.
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B.
Old Town (Vieux-Nice)
Old Town (Vieux-Nice) is the historic quarter of Nice, France, known for its narrow winding streets, colorful facades, bustling markets, and vibrant Mediterranean atmosphere.
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C.
Ajaccio
Ajaccio is a coastal city on the French island of Corsica, best known as the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte and now a popular Mediterranean tourist destination.
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D.
Arles
Arles is a historic city in southern France renowned for its well-preserved Roman monuments and its association with the painter Vincent van Gogh.
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E.
Calais
Calais is a major French port city on the northern coast, serving as one of the primary crossing points between France and England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coastal town
ⓘ
commune of France ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| department | Calvados ⓘ |
| hasAttraction |
D-Day memorials
ⓘ
Juno Beach Centre ⓘ |
| hasCommemoration | Allied forces landings ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
fishing
ⓘ
recreational boating ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
fishing harbour
ⓘ
marina ⓘ sandy beaches ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | World War II history ⓘ |
| hasNearbySite |
Gold Beach
ⓘ
Juno Beach ⓘ Sword Beach ⓘ |
| hasRole | D-Day landing site ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Arrondissement of Caen
ⓘ
Calvados department ⓘ Canton of Courseulles-sur-Mer ⓘ Normandy ⓘ northwestern France ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Caen ⓘ |
| locatedOn | English Channel ⓘ |
| partOf |
Utah Beach
ⓘ
surface form:
D-Day landing beaches
Juno Beach ⓘ
surface form:
Juno Beach sector
|
| region | Normandy ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| usedLanguage | French ⓘ |
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: Courseulles-sur-Mer Description of subject: Courseulles-sur-Mer is a coastal town in Normandy, France, known for its role in the D-Day landings and its proximity to the historic Allied invasion beaches.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bernières-sur-Mer
this entity surface form:
Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer
subject surface form:
716th Infantry Division