L'Épau Abbey
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L'Épau Abbey is a Cistercian monastery near Le Mans in France, best known as the burial site of Queen Berengaria of Navarre, widow of Richard the Lionheart.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| L'Épau Abbey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5726368 — 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: L'Épau Abbey Context triple: [Berengaria of Navarre, burialPlace, L'Épau Abbey]
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Ferrières Abbey
Ferrières Abbey is a historic Benedictine monastery in Ferrières-en-Gâtinais, France, notable as a royal religious center during the Carolingian and early medieval periods.
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Tournus Abbey
Tournus Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery in eastern France renowned for its well-preserved Romanesque church and monastic buildings.
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C.
Saint-Amand Abbey
Saint-Amand Abbey is a historic Benedictine monastery in northern France renowned as an important medieval religious and cultural center, particularly noted for its rich manuscript tradition.
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D.
Abbey of Jouarre
The Abbey of Jouarre is a historic Benedictine monastery in Jouarre, France, renowned for its early medieval origins and Merovingian crypts.
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E.
Abbaye aux Dames
Abbaye aux Dames is a former Benedictine nunnery in Caen, France, founded in the 11th century by William the Conqueror’s wife Matilda of Flanders and renowned for its Romanesque architecture.
- 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: L'Épau Abbey Target entity description: L'Épau Abbey is a Cistercian monastery near Le Mans in France, best known as the burial site of Queen Berengaria of Navarre, widow of Richard the Lionheart.
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A.
Ferrières Abbey
Ferrières Abbey is a historic Benedictine monastery in Ferrières-en-Gâtinais, France, notable as a royal religious center during the Carolingian and early medieval periods.
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B.
Tournus Abbey
Tournus Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery in eastern France renowned for its well-preserved Romanesque church and monastic buildings.
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C.
Saint-Amand Abbey
Saint-Amand Abbey is a historic Benedictine monastery in northern France renowned as an important medieval religious and cultural center, particularly noted for its rich manuscript tradition.
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D.
Abbey of Jouarre
The Abbey of Jouarre is a historic Benedictine monastery in Jouarre, France, renowned for its early medieval origins and Merovingian crypts.
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E.
Abbaye aux Dames
Abbaye aux Dames is a former Benedictine nunnery in Caen, France, founded in the 11th century by William the Conqueror’s wife Matilda of Flanders and renowned for its Romanesque architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cistercian monastery
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abbey ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Gothic architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Cistercian architecture in France
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Plantagenet dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ history of Le Mans ⓘ |
| burialPlaceOf |
Berengaria of Navarre
NERFINISHED
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Queen Berengaria of Navarre NERFINISHED ⓘ widow of Richard I of England ⓘ widow of Richard the Lionheart ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| currentUse |
cultural venue
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tourist attraction ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Blessed Virgin Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Berengaria of Navarre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder | Berengaria of Navarre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
abbey church
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chapter house ⓘ cloister ⓘ monastic buildings ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Monument historique ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationCountry | France ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Yvré-l'Évêque
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
northwestern France ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Pays de la Loire
NERFINISHED
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Sarthe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Le Mans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | banks of the Huisne River ⓘ |
| nearCity | Le Mans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Department of Sarthe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousOrder | Cistercian Order NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: L'Épau Abbey Description of subject: L'Épau Abbey is a Cistercian monastery near Le Mans in France, best known as the burial site of Queen Berengaria of Navarre, widow of Richard the Lionheart.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.