Blain
E393206
Blain is a small commune in western France known for its historic Château de la Groulaie and its location along the Nantes–Brest canal in the Loire-Atlantique department.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blain canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3840086 — 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: Blain Context triple: [Loire-Atlantique, containsCity, Blain]
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A.
Maybrook
Maybrook is a small village in Orange County, New York, historically known as a railroad hub and residential community in the Hudson Valley region.
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B.
Fairlawn
Fairlawn is a residential neighborhood and community within the city of Pawtucket in Providence County, Rhode Island.
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C.
Halstead
Halstead is a historic market town in the county of Essex in the East of England.
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D.
Glennsburne
Glennsburne is the former name of Glen Burnie, a suburban community in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
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E.
Whitehaven
Whitehaven is a coastal town and port on the Irish Sea in northwest England, historically known for its Georgian architecture and maritime and mining heritage.
- 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: Blain Target entity description: Blain is a small commune in western France known for its historic Château de la Groulaie and its location along the Nantes–Brest canal in the Loire-Atlantique department.
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A.
Maybrook
Maybrook is a small village in Orange County, New York, historically known as a railroad hub and residential community in the Hudson Valley region.
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B.
Fairlawn
Fairlawn is a residential neighborhood and community within the city of Pawtucket in Providence County, Rhode Island.
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C.
Halstead
Halstead is a historic market town in the county of Essex in the East of England.
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D.
Glennsburne
Glennsburne is the former name of Glen Burnie, a suburban community in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
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E.
Whitehaven
Whitehaven is a coastal town and port on the Irish Sea in northwest England, historically known for its Georgian architecture and maritime and mining heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| areaSquareKilometres | 100.22 ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| departmentCode | 44 ⓘ |
| elevationMaxMeters | 64 ⓘ |
| elevationMinMeters | 7 ⓘ |
| governedBy | municipal council of Blain ⓘ |
| hasDemonym |
Blinois
ⓘ
Blinoise ⓘ |
| hasHeritageSite | Château de la Groulaie ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalRegion | Brittany ⓘ |
| hasLandmark | Château de la Groulaie ⓘ |
| hasRiver |
Isak
ⓘ
surface form:
Isac
|
| hasStructure | Church of Saint-Hermeland of Blain ⓘ |
| hasTransportInfrastructure |
Nantes–Brest canal
ⓘ
surface form:
Nantes–Brest canal lock system
|
| INSEECODE | 44015 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Loire-Atlantique
ⓘ
Pays de la Loire ⓘ Western France ⓘ
surface form:
western France
|
| locatedNear |
Bouvron
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fay-de-Bretagne ⓘ Guémené-Penfao ⓘ Héric ⓘ La Chevallerais ⓘ Le Gâvre ⓘ Nantes ⓘ Notre-Dame-des-Landes ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterway | Nantes–Brest canal ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf |
arrondissement of Châteaubriant-Ancenis
ⓘ
canton of Blain ⓘ |
| postalCode | 44130 ⓘ |
| timeZone |
CEST
ⓘ
CET ⓘ |
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: Blain Description of subject: Blain is a small commune in western France known for its historic Château de la Groulaie and its location along the Nantes–Brest canal in the Loire-Atlantique department.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Loire-Atlantique