Plessis-lès-Tours, France
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Plessis-lès-Tours is a historic locality near Tours in central France, notable as a former royal residence and the place where Saint Francis of Paola died.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fromenteau, near Tours, Kingdom of France | 1 |
| Plessis-lès-Tours, France canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5562182 — 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: Plessis-lès-Tours, France Context triple: [Saint Francis of Paola, placeOfDeath, Plessis-lès-Tours, France]
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Neauphle-le-Château, France
Neauphle-le-Château is a small village in northern France best known as the place where Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini lived in exile shortly before the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
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B.
Montlouis-sur-Loire, France
Montlouis-sur-Loire is a commune in central France’s Loire Valley, known for its vineyards and historic châteaux along the Loire River.
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C.
Corbeil, France
Corbeil, France is a historic town in the Île-de-France region, now part of Corbeil-Essonnes, known for its medieval heritage and proximity to Paris.
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D.
Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
Mont-Saint-Aignan, France is a suburban commune near Rouen in Normandy, known as a residential and educational center and as the birthplace of legendary cyclist Jacques Anquetil.
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E.
Gouvieux, France
Gouvieux, France is a commune in the Oise department in northern France, known for its affluent residential character and association with the Aga Khan IV.
- 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: Plessis-lès-Tours, France Target entity description: Plessis-lès-Tours is a historic locality near Tours in central France, notable as a former royal residence and the place where Saint Francis of Paola died.
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A.
Neauphle-le-Château, France
Neauphle-le-Château is a small village in northern France best known as the place where Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini lived in exile shortly before the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
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B.
Montlouis-sur-Loire, France
Montlouis-sur-Loire is a commune in central France’s Loire Valley, known for its vineyards and historic châteaux along the Loire River.
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C.
Corbeil, France
Corbeil, France is a historic town in the Île-de-France region, now part of Corbeil-Essonnes, known for its medieval heritage and proximity to Paris.
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D.
Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
Mont-Saint-Aignan, France is a suburban commune near Rouen in Normandy, known as a residential and educational center and as the birthplace of legendary cyclist Jacques Anquetil.
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E.
Gouvieux, France
Gouvieux, France is a commune in the Oise department in northern France, known for its affluent residential character and association with the Aga Khan IV.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former royal residence
ⓘ
historic locality ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson | Saint Francis of Paola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| etymology | name indicates proximity to Tours ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | site of death of Saint Francis of Paola ⓘ |
| hasFunctionInPast | royal residence of the French monarchy ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | residence of French royalty in Touraine ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasNameInFrench | Plessis-lès-Tours NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasType | royal château site ⓘ |
| hasUse | royal residence ⓘ |
| hasVisitor | French kings ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic site ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Centre-Val de Loire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indre-et-Loire NERFINISHED ⓘ Tours NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricalProvince | Touraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | central France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Tours NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearRiver | Loire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a former royal residence
ⓘ
being the place where Saint Francis of Paola died ⓘ |
| partOf | historical royal domain of France ⓘ |
| usedDuring |
Middle Ages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
early modern period ⓘ |
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: Plessis-lès-Tours, France Description of subject: Plessis-lès-Tours is a historic locality near Tours in central France, notable as a former royal residence and the place where Saint Francis of Paola died.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Fromenteau, near Tours, Kingdom of France