Rouen
E51605
Rouen is a historic city in northern France renowned for its medieval architecture, Gothic cathedral, and association with figures like Joan of Arc and the Impressionist painter Claude Monet.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rouen canonical | 147 |
| City of Rouen | 6 |
| Rouen, France | 4 |
| Rouen, Duchy of Normandy | 2 |
| Count of Rouen | 1 |
| Rouen (for Normandy) | 1 |
| Rouen (regional capital of Normandy) | 1 |
| Rouen city centre | 1 |
| Rouen metropolitan area | 1 |
| Rouen, Kingdom of France | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T147626 — 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: Rouen Context triple: [Normans, capitalRegion, Rouen]
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A.
Reims
Reims is a historic city in northeastern France known for its Gothic cathedral, role in French coronations, and significance during both World Wars.
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B.
Cherbourg
Cherbourg is a major French port city on the Cotentin Peninsula, known for its strategic naval harbor and cross-Channel ferry connections.
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C.
Nantes
Nantes is a historic port city in western France on the Loire River, known for its maritime heritage, cultural institutions, and vibrant arts scene.
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D.
Honfleur
Honfleur is a historic port town in Normandy, northern France, renowned for its picturesque old harbor, timber-framed houses, and association with Impressionist painters.
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E.
Calais
Calais is a major French port city on the northern coast, serving as one of the primary crossing points between France and England.
- 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: Rouen Target entity description: Rouen is a historic city in northern France renowned for its medieval architecture, Gothic cathedral, and association with figures like Joan of Arc and the Impressionist painter Claude Monet.
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A.
Reims
Reims is a historic city in northeastern France known for its Gothic cathedral, role in French coronations, and significance during both World Wars.
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B.
Cherbourg
Cherbourg is a major French port city on the Cotentin Peninsula, known for its strategic naval harbor and cross-Channel ferry connections.
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C.
Nantes
Nantes is a historic port city in western France on the Loire River, known for its maritime heritage, cultural institutions, and vibrant arts scene.
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D.
Honfleur
Honfleur is a historic port town in Normandy, northern France, renowned for its picturesque old harbor, timber-framed houses, and association with Impressionist painters.
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E.
Calais
Calais is a major French port city on the northern coast, serving as one of the primary crossing points between France and England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Rouen Description of subject: Rouen is a historic city in northern France renowned for its medieval architecture, Gothic cathedral, and association with figures like Joan of Arc and the Impressionist painter Claude Monet.
Referenced by (165)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rouen city centre
this entity surface form:
City of Rouen
this entity surface form:
City of Rouen
this entity surface form:
Rouen, France
subject surface form:
Northern France
this entity surface form:
Rouen, Kingdom of France