Ploërmel
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Ploërmel is a historic town in Brittany, northwestern France, known for its medieval heritage and role as an administrative center in the Morbihan department.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ploërmel canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6340688 — 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: Ploërmel Context triple: [Morbihan, subprefecture, Ploërmel]
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A.
Quimper
Quimper is a historic city in western France known for its medieval old town, Gothic cathedral, and traditional Breton culture.
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B.
Quimperlé
Quimperlé is a historic town in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France, known for its medieval architecture and picturesque setting at the confluence of three rivers.
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C.
Saint-Brieuc
Saint-Brieuc is a coastal city and the capital of the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany, northwestern France, known for its historic center and nearby bay.
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D.
Vannes
Vannes is a historic coastal city in northwestern France known for its well-preserved medieval old town and harbor on the Gulf of Morbihan.
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E.
Morlaix
Morlaix is a historic town and port in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France, known for its picturesque old center and impressive railway viaduct.
- 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: Ploërmel Target entity description: Ploërmel is a historic town in Brittany, northwestern France, known for its medieval heritage and role as an administrative center in the Morbihan department.
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A.
Quimper
Quimper is a historic city in western France known for its medieval old town, Gothic cathedral, and traditional Breton culture.
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B.
Quimperlé
Quimperlé is a historic town in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France, known for its medieval architecture and picturesque setting at the confluence of three rivers.
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C.
Saint-Brieuc
Saint-Brieuc is a coastal city and the capital of the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany, northwestern France, known for its historic center and nearby bay.
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D.
Vannes
Vannes is a historic coastal city in northwestern France known for its well-preserved medieval old town and harbor on the Gulf of Morbihan.
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E.
Morlaix
Morlaix is a historic town and port in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France, known for its picturesque old center and impressive railway viaduct.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| adminCentreOf |
Ploërmel arrondissement
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
canton of Ploërmel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaSquareKilometres | 50.68 ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| demonym | Ploërmelais ⓘ |
| distanceTo |
about 30 km from Vannes
ⓘ
about 60 km from Rennes ⓘ |
| elevationMaxMeters | 126 ⓘ |
| elevationMinMeters | 19 ⓘ |
| governingBody | municipal council of Ploërmel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClimate | oceanic climate ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | Lycée La Mennais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | medieval heritage ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalEvent | Battle of Ploërmel (1351) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalPeriod | medieval town ⓘ |
| hasLake | Lac au Duc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMayor | Patrick Le Diffon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerson |
Jean-Marie de La Mennais
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joseph Rault NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | Church of Saint-Armel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStatue | Statue of Pope John Paul II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransport | RN24 road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTwinTown |
Cobh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Llandybie NERFINISHED ⓘ New Ross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalProvince | Duchy of Brittany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| INSEECODE | 56165 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brittany
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Morbihan NERFINISHED ⓘ northwestern France ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Lac au Duc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Nantes–Brest canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mayorTermEnd | 2026 ⓘ |
| mayorTermStart | 2020 ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf |
Morbihan department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
region of Brittany ⓘ |
| postalCode | 56800 ⓘ |
| regionalLanguage |
Breton
ⓘ
Gallo ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
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: Ploërmel Description of subject: Ploërmel is a historic town in Brittany, northwestern France, known for its medieval heritage and role as an administrative center in the Morbihan department.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.