Place d'Armes
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Place d'Armes is a historic public square in Old Montreal known for its surrounding landmark architecture, including Notre-Dame Basilica and notable 19th-century buildings.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Place d'Armes canonical | 5 |
| Place d’Armes | 3 |
| Place d'Armes square | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3995834 — 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: Place d'Armes Context triple: [Old Montreal, contains, Place d'Armes]
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A.
Place d'Armes
Place d'Armes is a central historic square in Luxembourg City known for its cafés, events, and role as a popular social and cultural gathering spot.
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B.
Place d’Armes
Place d’Armes is a historic public square in Old Quebec City that serves as a central gathering spot surrounded by notable landmarks and heritage architecture.
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C.
Place d’Alliance
Place d’Alliance is a historic square in Nancy, France, known for its harmonious classical architecture and central fountain, and is part of the city’s UNESCO-listed 18th-century urban ensemble.
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D.
Place de Neuve
Place de Neuve is a prominent square in Geneva, Switzerland, known as a cultural hub bordered by major institutions like the Grand Théâtre and serving as a gateway to the city's historic center.
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E.
Allée des Drapeaux
Allée des Drapeaux is the ceremonial flag-lined avenue leading to the United Nations' Palais des Nations in Geneva, prominently displaying the flags of member states.
- 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: Place d'Armes Target entity description: Place d'Armes is a historic public square in Old Montreal known for its surrounding landmark architecture, including Notre-Dame Basilica and notable 19th-century buildings.
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A.
Place d'Armes
Place d'Armes is a central historic square in Luxembourg City known for its cafés, events, and role as a popular social and cultural gathering spot.
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B.
Place d’Armes
Place d’Armes is a historic public square in Old Quebec City that serves as a central gathering spot surrounded by notable landmarks and heritage architecture.
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C.
Place d’Alliance
Place d’Alliance is a historic square in Nancy, France, known for its harmonious classical architecture and central fountain, and is part of the city’s UNESCO-listed 18th-century urban ensemble.
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D.
Place de Neuve
Place de Neuve is a prominent square in Geneva, Switzerland, known as a cultural hub bordered by major institutions like the Grand Théâtre and serving as a gateway to the city's historic center.
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E.
Allée des Drapeaux
Allée des Drapeaux is the ceremonial flag-lined avenue leading to the United Nations' Palais des Nations in Geneva, prominently displaying the flags of member states.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public square
ⓘ
tourist attraction ⓘ urban plaza ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Aldred Building
ⓘ
Bank of Montreal head office ⓘ
surface form:
Bank of Montreal Head Office building
Hotel Place d'Armes ⓘ New York Life Insurance Building (Montreal) ⓘ Notre-Dame Basilica ⓘ
surface form:
Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal
|
| borough | Ville-Marie ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
popular filming location in Montreal
ⓘ
symbolic centre of Old Montreal ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Montreal
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Montreal
|
| hasArchitecturalStyleInSurroundings |
19th-century commercial architecture
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Art Deco ⓘ Beaux-Arts ⓘ Gothic Revival ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
central open paved space
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monuments and statues ⓘ surrounding historic façades ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | French military term "place d'armes" ⓘ |
| hasViewOf |
Montreal downtown skyline from Old Montreal side
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Notre-Dame Basilica ⓘ
surface form:
Notre-Dame Basilica façade
|
| heritageStatus | historic square ⓘ |
| knownFor |
historic public square in Old Montreal
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proximity to Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal ⓘ surrounding landmark architecture ⓘ |
| languageRegion | French-speaking Quebec ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canada
ⓘ
Montreal ⓘ Old Montreal ⓘ Quebec, Canada ⓘ
surface form:
Quebec
|
| municipality | Montreal ⓘ |
| near |
Rue Notre-Dame Ouest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rue Saint-Jacques NERFINISHED ⓘ Rue Saint-Jean NERFINISHED ⓘ Rue Saint-Sulpice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePeriod | 19th century urban development of Montreal ⓘ |
| partOf | historic district of Old Montreal ⓘ |
| publicAccess | open to the public ⓘ |
| touristRegion |
Old Montreal
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surface form:
Montreal historic centre
|
| transportConnection | near Place-d'Armes metro station ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cultural events
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public gatherings ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| zoning | public space ⓘ |
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: Place d'Armes Description of subject: Place d'Armes is a historic public square in Old Montreal known for its surrounding landmark architecture, including Notre-Dame Basilica and notable 19th-century buildings.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Maisonneuve Monument
subject surface form:
Maisonneuve Monument
this entity surface form:
Place d’Armes
this entity surface form:
Place d’Armes
this entity surface form:
Place d’Armes
subject surface form:
Place-d'Armes station
subject surface form:
Place-d'Armes station
this entity surface form:
Place d'Armes square