Broglie, Eure, France
E39348
Broglie is a small commune in the Eure department of Normandy in northern France, historically notable as the birthplace of physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| commune of Broglie | 5 |
| Broglie, Eure, France canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T304926 — 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: Broglie, Eure, France Context triple: [Augustin-Jean Fresnel, placeOfBirth, Broglie, Eure, France]
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Fontainebleau, France
Fontainebleau, France is a historic town southeast of Paris best known for its vast forest and royal château, long associated with French monarchs and outdoor recreation.
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B.
Auxerre, France
Auxerre, France is a historic city in the Burgundy region known for its medieval architecture, Gothic cathedral, and role as a cultural and economic center along the Yonne River.
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C.
La Hulpe, Belgium
La Hulpe is a small municipality in Walloon Brabant, Belgium, known for hosting the headquarters of the global financial messaging network SWIFT and for its nearby Solvay Castle and park.
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D.
Soisy-sous-Montmorency, France
Soisy-sous-Montmorency is a suburban commune in the northern outskirts of Paris, France, known as the birthplace of pioneering computer scientist Yann LeCun.
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E.
Brussels, Belgium
Brussels, Belgium is the capital city of Belgium and a major political center of Europe, hosting key institutions such as the European Union and numerous international organizations.
- 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: Broglie, Eure, France Target entity description: Broglie is a small commune in the Eure department of Normandy in northern France, historically notable as the birthplace of physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel.
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A.
Fontainebleau, France
Fontainebleau, France is a historic town southeast of Paris best known for its vast forest and royal château, long associated with French monarchs and outdoor recreation.
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B.
Auxerre, France
Auxerre, France is a historic city in the Burgundy region known for its medieval architecture, Gothic cathedral, and role as a cultural and economic center along the Yonne River.
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C.
La Hulpe, Belgium
La Hulpe is a small municipality in Walloon Brabant, Belgium, known for hosting the headquarters of the global financial messaging network SWIFT and for its nearby Solvay Castle and park.
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D.
Soisy-sous-Montmorency, France
Soisy-sous-Montmorency is a suburban commune in the northern outskirts of Paris, France, known as the birthplace of pioneering computer scientist Yann LeCun.
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E.
Brussels, Belgium
Brussels, Belgium is the capital city of Belgium and a major political center of Europe, hosting key institutions such as the European Union and numerous international organizations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
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: Broglie, Eure, France Description of subject: Broglie is a small commune in the Eure department of Normandy in northern France, historically notable as the birthplace of physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
this entity surface form:
commune of Broglie
this entity surface form:
commune of Broglie
this entity surface form:
commune of Broglie
this entity surface form:
commune of Broglie
this entity surface form:
commune of Broglie