Old Arsenal (Ancien Arsenal)
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Old Arsenal (Ancien Arsenal) is a historic former military arsenal in Geneva’s Old Town, now known for its arcaded courtyard, cannons, and colorful mosaics depicting key events in the city’s history.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ancien Arsenal | 1 |
| Old Arsenal (Ancien Arsenal) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2982418 — 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: Old Arsenal (Ancien Arsenal) Context triple: [Old Town of Geneva, contains, Old Arsenal (Ancien Arsenal)]
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A.
Porte de Vincennes
Porte de Vincennes is a major Parisian intersection and metro station in the 12th arrondissement, serving as a key gateway between central Paris and its eastern suburbs.
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B.
Jacquemart Tower
Jacquemart Tower is a historic clock and bell tower in Romans-sur-Isère, France, known as a prominent medieval landmark of the town.
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C.
Hôtel des Invalides
The Hôtel des Invalides is a grand 17th-century complex in Paris that houses military museums, monuments, and Napoleon Bonaparte’s tomb.
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D.
Galerie des Machines
The Galerie des Machines was a vast iron-and-glass exhibition hall in Paris, renowned in the late 19th century as one of the largest and most impressive engineering structures of its time.
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E.
Halle Saint-Pierre
Halle Saint-Pierre is a Parisian museum and cultural center renowned for its exhibitions dedicated to outsider art, folk art, and contemporary alternative creativity.
- 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: Old Arsenal (Ancien Arsenal) Target entity description: Old Arsenal (Ancien Arsenal) is a historic former military arsenal in Geneva’s Old Town, now known for its arcaded courtyard, cannons, and colorful mosaics depicting key events in the city’s history.
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A.
Porte de Vincennes
Porte de Vincennes is a major Parisian intersection and metro station in the 12th arrondissement, serving as a key gateway between central Paris and its eastern suburbs.
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B.
Jacquemart Tower
Jacquemart Tower is a historic clock and bell tower in Romans-sur-Isère, France, known as a prominent medieval landmark of the town.
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C.
Hôtel des Invalides
The Hôtel des Invalides is a grand 17th-century complex in Paris that houses military museums, monuments, and Napoleon Bonaparte’s tomb.
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D.
Galerie des Machines
The Galerie des Machines was a vast iron-and-glass exhibition hall in Paris, renowned in the late 19th century as one of the largest and most impressive engineering structures of its time.
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E.
Halle Saint-Pierre
Halle Saint-Pierre is a Parisian museum and cultural center renowned for its exhibitions dedicated to outsider art, folk art, and contemporary alternative creativity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
courtyard complex
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former military arsenal ⓘ historic building ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | arcaded architecture ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| depicts | key events in the history of Geneva ⓘ |
| district | Old Town ⓘ |
| formerFunction | military arsenal ⓘ |
| hasLanguageVariantName |
Old Arsenal (Ancien Arsenal)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Ancien Arsenal
Old Arsenal ⓘ |
| hasMosaicTheme | historical scenes of Geneva ⓘ |
| hasPart |
arcaded courtyard
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cannons ⓘ colorful mosaics ⓘ vaulted arcades ⓘ |
| hasUse |
historical monument
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public space ⓘ tourist site ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic site of Geneva ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Geneva
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Old Town of Geneva ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | Switzerland ⓘ |
| notableFor |
arcaded courtyard setting
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cannons displayed in the courtyard ⓘ mosaics illustrating Geneva’s history ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| touristAttractionType |
historic landmark
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urban monument ⓘ |
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: Old Arsenal (Ancien Arsenal) Description of subject: Old Arsenal (Ancien Arsenal) is a historic former military arsenal in Geneva’s Old Town, now known for its arcaded courtyard, cannons, and colorful mosaics depicting key events in the city’s history.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Old Arsenal (Ancien Arsenal)
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hasLanguageVariantName
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Old Arsenal (Ancien Arsenal)
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Ancien Arsenal