Clairvaux Abbey
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Clairvaux Abbey was a prominent Cistercian monastery in northeastern France, historically renowned as the community led by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and later infamous as the site of a major French prison.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clairvaux Abbey canonical | 2 |
| Abbey of Clairvaux | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4757843 — 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: Clairvaux Abbey Context triple: [Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, placeOfDeath, Clairvaux Abbey]
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Cîteaux Abbey
Cîteaux Abbey is a historic French monastery founded in 1098 that became the cradle and mother house of the Cistercian Order and its influential monastic reform movement.
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Cluny Abbey
Cluny Abbey was a powerful medieval Benedictine monastery in eastern France that became a major center of religious reform, art, and architecture in Western Europe.
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Fontevraud Abbey
Fontevraud Abbey is a historic monastic complex in the Loire Valley of France, renowned as the burial site of several Plantagenet royals and as one of the largest surviving medieval abbeys in Europe.
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Pontigny Abbey
Pontigny Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in northern France, renowned as one of the earliest and largest Cistercian abbeys and an important center of medieval religious and intellectual life.
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Benedictine abbey of Bec
The Benedictine abbey of Bec was a highly influential Norman monastic center and school in 11th-century France, renowned for its scholarship and for producing prominent church leaders such as Anselm of Canterbury.
- 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: Clairvaux Abbey Target entity description: Clairvaux Abbey was a prominent Cistercian monastery in northeastern France, historically renowned as the community led by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and later infamous as the site of a major French prison.
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A.
Cîteaux Abbey
Cîteaux Abbey is a historic French monastery founded in 1098 that became the cradle and mother house of the Cistercian Order and its influential monastic reform movement.
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B.
Cluny Abbey
Cluny Abbey was a powerful medieval Benedictine monastery in eastern France that became a major center of religious reform, art, and architecture in Western Europe.
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C.
Fontevraud Abbey
Fontevraud Abbey is a historic monastic complex in the Loire Valley of France, renowned as the burial site of several Plantagenet royals and as one of the largest surviving medieval abbeys in Europe.
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D.
Pontigny Abbey
Pontigny Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in northern France, renowned as one of the earliest and largest Cistercian abbeys and an important center of medieval religious and intellectual life.
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E.
Benedictine abbey of Bec
The Benedictine abbey of Bec was a highly influential Norman monastic center and school in 11th-century France, renowned for its scholarship and for producing prominent church leaders such as Anselm of Canterbury.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cistercian monastery
ⓘ
former monastery ⓘ historic site ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Romanesque
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early Gothic ⓘ |
| convertedTo | state prison ⓘ |
| coordinates | 48.18°N 4.83°E ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Virgin Mary ⓘ |
| diocese | Diocese of Langres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | 1115 ⓘ |
| foundedAsDaughterHouseOf | Cîteaux Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Bernard of Clairvaux
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hugh of Vitry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedInCentury | 12th century ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | listed historic monument of France ⓘ |
| influenced | expansion of the Cistercian Order in Europe ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Ville-sous-la-Ferté NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInFormerProvince | Champagne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricalRegion | northeastern France ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Grand Est NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Cistercian Order NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| monasticLifeEnded | 1792 ⓘ |
| motherHouseOf |
Altenberg Abbey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clairmarais Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ Eberbach Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ Foigny Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ Fountains Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ Heiligenkreuz Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ Himmerod Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ Lérins Abbey (Cistercian reform) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mellifont Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ Morimond Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ Pontigny Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ Rievaulx Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ Tintern Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ Villiers Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAbbot |
Bernard of Clairvaux
NERFINISHED
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Geoffrey of Auxerre NERFINISHED ⓘ William of Saint-Thierry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with Bernard of Clairvaux
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influence on medieval monastic architecture ⓘ later use as a major French prison ⓘ role in the Cistercian reform movement ⓘ |
| openToPublic | partially ⓘ |
| ownedBy | French state ⓘ |
| religiousOrder | Cistercians NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| suppressedDuring | French Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedAsPrisonFrom | 1808 ⓘ |
| usedAsPrisonUntil | 21st century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Clairvaux Abbey Description of subject: Clairvaux Abbey was a prominent Cistercian monastery in northeastern France, historically renowned as the community led by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and later infamous as the site of a major French prison.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Abbey of Clairvaux