Boulogne, Vendée, France
E613646
Boulogne is a small rural commune in the Vendée department of western France, known as the birthplace of French general Pierre de Villiers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boulogne, Vendée, France canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6724960 — 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: Boulogne, Vendée, France Context triple: [Pierre de Villiers, birthPlace, Boulogne, Vendée, France]
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Val-de-Reuil, France
Val-de-Reuil is a planned new town in the Eure department of Normandy in northern France, known for its modern urban design and industrial and technological activities.
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B.
Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France
Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France is a picturesque seaside resort town on the French Riviera known for its Mediterranean beaches, Belle Époque architecture, and luxury yachting harbor.
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C.
La Baule, Loire-Inférieure, France
La Baule, in the former Loire-Inférieure department of France, is a renowned Atlantic seaside resort town famous for its long sandy beach and Belle Époque villas.
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D.
Pontivy, France
Pontivy is a historic town in the Morbihan department of Brittany in northwestern France, known for its medieval and Napoleonic heritage along the Blavet River.
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E.
Le Croisic, France
Le Croisic, France is a small historic fishing port and seaside resort town on the Atlantic coast of western France, known for its scenic coastline and maritime heritage.
- 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: Boulogne, Vendée, France Target entity description: Boulogne is a small rural commune in the Vendée department of western France, known as the birthplace of French general Pierre de Villiers.
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A.
Val-de-Reuil, France
Val-de-Reuil is a planned new town in the Eure department of Normandy in northern France, known for its modern urban design and industrial and technological activities.
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B.
Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France
Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France is a picturesque seaside resort town on the French Riviera known for its Mediterranean beaches, Belle Époque architecture, and luxury yachting harbor.
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C.
La Baule, Loire-Inférieure, France
La Baule, in the former Loire-Inférieure department of France, is a renowned Atlantic seaside resort town famous for its long sandy beach and Belle Époque villas.
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D.
Pontivy, France
Pontivy is a historic town in the Morbihan department of Brittany in northwestern France, known for its medieval and Napoleonic heritage along the Blavet River.
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E.
Le Croisic, France
Le Croisic, France is a small historic fishing port and seaside resort town on the Atlantic coast of western France, known for its scenic coastline and maritime heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| birthplaceOf | Pierre de Villiers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 46.7833° N, 1.2333° W ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision |
Pays de la Loire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vendée NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dialingCode | +33 ⓘ |
| elevation | about 80 m above sea level ⓘ |
| hasAgriculturalCharacter | true ⓘ |
| hasClimate | oceanic climate ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
farmland
ⓘ
woodland ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerson | Pierre de Villiers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligionMajority | Roman Catholicism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1790 ⓘ |
| INSEECODE | 85027 ⓘ |
| isRuralMunicipality | true ⓘ |
| localGovernmentType | commune council ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Pays de la Loire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vendée NERFINISHED ⓘ western France ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | France ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricalRegion | Poitou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| municipalStatus | commune ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Boulogne (local toponym) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf |
Pays de la Loire region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vendée department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| population | approximately 1000 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 85140 ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| vehicleRegistrationCode | 85 ⓘ |
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: Boulogne, Vendée, France Description of subject: Boulogne is a small rural commune in the Vendée department of western France, known as the birthplace of French general Pierre de Villiers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Pierre de Villiers