Pontmain
E391298
Catholic pilgrimage site
Catholic shrine
Marian apparition
Marian devotion
Marian title
basilica
commune of France
village
Pontmain is a small village in northwestern France best known as the site of a 19th-century Marian apparition that led to its development as a Catholic pilgrimage destination.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pontmain canonical | 4 |
| Parish of Pontmain | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3815914 — 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: Pontmain Context triple: [Marian apparitions, notableApparitionSite, Pontmain]
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A.
Trois-Ponts
Trois-Ponts is a small municipality in the province of Liège in Wallonia, Belgium, known for its scenic Ardennes landscape and railway junction.
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B.
Butte-aux-Cailles
Butte-aux-Cailles is a picturesque, village-like neighborhood in Paris known for its cobbled streets, street art, and lively cafés.
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C.
La Croix-Valmer
La Croix-Valmer is a coastal commune on the French Riviera in the Var department of southeastern France, known for its Mediterranean beaches and proximity to Saint-Tropez.
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D.
Pont-de-l’Isère
Pont-de-l’Isère is a commune in southeastern France’s Drôme department, known for its location along the Isère River near its confluence with the Rhône.
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E.
Pontigny
Pontigny is a French village best known for its historic Cistercian abbey, one of the earliest and largest of the order.
- 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: Pontmain Target entity description: Pontmain is a small village in northwestern France best known as the site of a 19th-century Marian apparition that led to its development as a Catholic pilgrimage destination.
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A.
Trois-Ponts
Trois-Ponts is a small municipality in the province of Liège in Wallonia, Belgium, known for its scenic Ardennes landscape and railway junction.
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B.
Butte-aux-Cailles
Butte-aux-Cailles is a picturesque, village-like neighborhood in Paris known for its cobbled streets, street art, and lively cafés.
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C.
La Croix-Valmer
La Croix-Valmer is a coastal commune on the French Riviera in the Var department of southeastern France, known for its Mediterranean beaches and proximity to Saint-Tropez.
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D.
Pont-de-l’Isère
Pont-de-l’Isère is a commune in southeastern France’s Drôme department, known for its location along the Isère River near its confluence with the Rhône.
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E.
Pontigny
Pontigny is a French village best known for its historic Cistercian abbey, one of the earliest and largest of the order.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic pilgrimage site
ⓘ
Catholic shrine ⓘ Marian apparition ⓘ Marian devotion ⓘ Marian title ⓘ basilica ⓘ commune of France ⓘ village ⓘ |
| apparitionDate | 17 January 1871 ⓘ |
| apparitionRecognizedBy |
Bishop of Laval
ⓘ
Catholic Church worldwide ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
|
| appearedIn | Pontmain self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Pontmain self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Franco-Prussian War ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| date | 17 January 1871 ⓘ |
| denomination |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman Catholic Church
|
| departmentCode | 53 ⓘ |
| devotionTo | Virgin Mary ⓘ |
| governedAs | commune ⓘ |
| hasMarianApparition | Our Lady of Pontmain ⓘ |
| hasParish |
Pontmain
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Parish of Pontmain
|
| hasPilgrimageFeastDay | 17 January ⓘ |
| hasPlaceOfWorship | Basilica of Our Lady of Pontmain ⓘ |
| hasReligiousArt | Marian iconography ⓘ |
| hasReligiousProcessions | Marian processions ⓘ |
| hasReligiousTitle |
Basilica of Our Lady of Pontmain
ⓘ
surface form:
Notre-Dame de Pontmain
|
| hasReligiousTourism | yes ⓘ |
| hasShrine |
Basilica of Our Lady of Pontmain
ⓘ
surface form:
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Pontmain
|
| hasTitleOfMary | Our Lady of Hope ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Franco-Prussian War ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mayenne
ⓘ
surface form:
Mayenne department
Pays de la Loire ⓘ
surface form:
Pays de la Loire region
Pontmain self-linksurface differs ⓘ northwestern France ⓘ western France ⓘ |
| notableFor |
19th-century Marian apparition
ⓘ
Catholic pilgrimages ⓘ |
| pilgrimageDestinationSince | late 19th century ⓘ |
| pilgrimageType | Marian pilgrimage ⓘ |
| pilgrimsComeFrom |
France
ⓘ
other countries ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
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: Pontmain Description of subject: Pontmain is a small village in northwestern France best known as the site of a 19th-century Marian apparition that led to its development as a Catholic pilgrimage destination.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Our Lady of Pontmain
subject surface form:
Basilica of Our Lady of Pontmain
subject surface form:
Our Lady of Hope