Sémillon
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Sémillon is a classic French white wine grape variety, especially known for its key role in the sweet wines of Sauternes and rich dry whites from Bordeaux.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sémillon canonical | 40 |
| Semillon | 17 |
| Sémillon is the dominant variety | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T348022 — 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: Sémillon Context triple: [Bordeaux, whiteGrapeVarietyUsed, Sémillon]
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A.
Sauvignon Blanc
Sauvignon Blanc is a green-skinned grape variety originating from France, best known for producing crisp, aromatic white wines with pronounced herbaceous and citrus flavors.
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B.
Carménère
Carménère is a dark-skinned red wine grape, historically from Bordeaux but now most famously grown in Chile, known for producing deeply colored, herbaceous wines with notes of red fruits and green pepper.
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C.
Merlot
Merlot is a popular red wine grape variety known for producing smooth, medium- to full-bodied wines with soft tannins and flavors of plum, black cherry, and chocolate.
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D.
Cabernet Franc
Cabernet Franc is a black-skinned wine grape variety known for producing medium-bodied, aromatic red wines and for being a key parent of several major Bordeaux grapes, including Cabernet Sauvignon.
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E.
Petit Verdot
Petit Verdot is a deeply colored, tannic red wine grape variety from Bordeaux, valued for adding structure, color, and floral-spice complexity to blends.
- 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: Sémillon Target entity description: Sémillon is a classic French white wine grape variety, especially known for its key role in the sweet wines of Sauternes and rich dry whites from Bordeaux.
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A.
Sauvignon Blanc
Sauvignon Blanc is a green-skinned grape variety originating from France, best known for producing crisp, aromatic white wines with pronounced herbaceous and citrus flavors.
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B.
Carménère
Carménère is a dark-skinned red wine grape, historically from Bordeaux but now most famously grown in Chile, known for producing deeply colored, herbaceous wines with notes of red fruits and green pepper.
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C.
Merlot
Merlot is a popular red wine grape variety known for producing smooth, medium- to full-bodied wines with soft tannins and flavors of plum, black cherry, and chocolate.
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D.
Cabernet Franc
Cabernet Franc is a black-skinned wine grape variety known for producing medium-bodied, aromatic red wines and for being a key parent of several major Bordeaux grapes, including Cabernet Sauvignon.
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E.
Petit Verdot
Petit Verdot is a deeply colored, tannic red wine grape variety from Bordeaux, valued for adding structure, color, and floral-spice complexity to blends.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
white grape variety
ⓘ
wine grape variety ⓘ |
| acidity | medium to low acidity ⓘ |
| agingPotential |
good in high-quality dry wines
ⓘ
high in sweet botrytized wines ⓘ |
| aroma |
citrus
ⓘ
honey ⓘ lanolin ⓘ stone fruit ⓘ toast with oak aging ⓘ |
| body | medium to full-bodied ⓘ |
| color | white ⓘ |
| grapeSkin | thin-skinned ⓘ |
| majorCountryOfCultivation |
Australia
ⓘ
Chile ⓘ France ⓘ South Africa ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| notableNewWorldRegion |
Barossa Valley
ⓘ
Hunter Valley ⓘ Napa Valley ⓘ |
| notableRegion |
Bordeaux
ⓘ
Sauternes ⓘ |
| oftenBlendedWith |
Muscadelle
ⓘ
Sauvignon Blanc ⓘ
surface form:
Sauvignon blanc
|
| origin | France ⓘ |
| primaryRoleIn |
Barsac sweet wines
ⓘ
sweet wines of Sauternes ⓘ |
| species | Vitis vinifera ⓘ |
| susceptibility | high susceptibility to Botrytis cinerea ⓘ |
| synonym |
Blanc doux
ⓘ
Chevrier ⓘ Colombier ⓘ Greenock ⓘ Riesling ⓘ
surface form:
Hunter River Riesling
Malaga ⓘ Wyndruif ⓘ |
| typicalAlcoholLevel | medium to high ⓘ |
| usedFor |
botrytized dessert wine
ⓘ
dry white wine ⓘ sweet wine ⓘ |
| usedInAppellation |
Barsac AOC
ⓘ
Graves ⓘ
surface form:
Graves AOC
Pessac-Léognan ⓘ
surface form:
Pessac-Léognan AOC
Sauternes ⓘ
surface form:
Sauternes AOC
|
| viticulturalCharacteristic |
early to mid-season ripening
ⓘ
relatively high yields ⓘ |
| wineStyleAssociation |
ageworthy sweet wines
ⓘ
rich dry white Bordeaux ⓘ |
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: Sémillon Description of subject: Sémillon is a classic French white wine grape variety, especially known for its key role in the sweet wines of Sauternes and rich dry whites from Bordeaux.
Referenced by (58)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Semillon
subject surface form:
Sauternes
this entity surface form:
Semillon
this entity surface form:
Semillon