Beauvais
E343358
Beauvais is a historic city in northern France known for its impressive Gothic cathedral and role as the capital of the Oise department.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beauvais canonical | 28 |
| Beauvaisis | 3 |
| Beauvais area | 1 |
| Beauvais, France | 1 |
| Beauvaisien | 1 |
| Beauvaisis area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2149290 — 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: Beauvais Context triple: [Hauts-de-France, contains, Beauvais]
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A.
Creil
Creil is a commuter town in northern France’s Oise department, known as a regional rail hub connecting Paris with Picardy via major train and RER lines.
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B.
Reims
Reims is a historic city in northeastern France known for its Gothic cathedral, role in French coronations, and significance during both World Wars.
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C.
Houilles
Houilles is a suburban commune in north-central France, located in the western outskirts of Paris within the Yvelines department.
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D.
Valenciennes
Valenciennes is a historic industrial city in northern France near the Belgian border, known for its former coal and steel industries and its rich artistic and architectural heritage.
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E.
Meaux
Meaux is a historic commune in the Île-de-France region of north-central France, known for its cathedral, World War I heritage, and production of Brie de Meaux cheese.
- 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: Beauvais Target entity description: Beauvais is a historic city in northern France known for its impressive Gothic cathedral and role as the capital of the Oise department.
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A.
Creil
Creil is a commuter town in northern France’s Oise department, known as a regional rail hub connecting Paris with Picardy via major train and RER lines.
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B.
Reims
Reims is a historic city in northeastern France known for its Gothic cathedral, role in French coronations, and significance during both World Wars.
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C.
Houilles
Houilles is a suburban commune in north-central France, located in the western outskirts of Paris within the Yvelines department.
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D.
Valenciennes
Valenciennes is a historic industrial city in northern France near the Belgian border, known for its former coal and steel industries and its rich artistic and architectural heritage.
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E.
Meaux
Meaux is a historic commune in the Île-de-France region of north-central France, known for its cathedral, World War I heritage, and production of Brie de Meaux cheese.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Beauvais Description of subject: Beauvais is a historic city in northern France known for its impressive Gothic cathedral and role as the capital of the Oise department.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Beauvaisis
this entity surface form:
Beauvaisis
this entity surface form:
Beauvaisis area
subject surface form:
Oise
subject surface form:
Oise
subject surface form:
Oise
subject surface form:
Northern France
this entity surface form:
Beauvais area
subject surface form:
Beauvais–Tillé Airport
subject surface form:
Beauvais–Tillé Airport
subject surface form:
Beauvais–Tillé Airport
subject surface form:
Terminal 2 (Beauvais–Tillé Airport)
subject surface form:
Terminal 2 (Beauvais–Tillé Airport)
this entity surface form:
Beauvais, France
this entity surface form:
Beauvaisis