Île d’Yeu prison
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Île d’Yeu prison was a French island penitentiary best known for holding Marshal Philippe Pétain during his post–World War II imprisonment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Île d’Yeu prison canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T500728 — 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: Île d’Yeu prison Context triple: [Philippe Pétain, placeOfDetention, Île d’Yeu prison]
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A.
Landsberg Prison
Landsberg Prison is a Bavarian detention facility best known as the place where Adolf Hitler was incarcerated in 1924 and wrote much of "Mein Kampf."
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B.
Werl Prison
Werl Prison is a correctional facility in Werl, Germany, historically used by the Allies after World War II to incarcerate high-ranking Nazi war criminals.
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C.
Pollsmoor Prison
Pollsmoor Prison is a high-security South African correctional facility in Cape Town, historically notable for holding prominent anti-apartheid activists including Nelson Mandela.
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D.
Victor Verster Prison
Victor Verster Prison is a South African correctional facility best known as the place where Nelson Mandela spent the final years of his imprisonment before his release in 1990.
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E.
Bilibid Prison
Bilibid Prison is a notorious high-security penitentiary complex in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila, Philippines, historically used to incarcerate prominent prisoners including war criminals.
- 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: Île d’Yeu prison Target entity description: Île d’Yeu prison was a French island penitentiary best known for holding Marshal Philippe Pétain during his post–World War II imprisonment.
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A.
Landsberg Prison
Landsberg Prison is a Bavarian detention facility best known as the place where Adolf Hitler was incarcerated in 1924 and wrote much of "Mein Kampf."
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B.
Werl Prison
Werl Prison is a correctional facility in Werl, Germany, historically used by the Allies after World War II to incarcerate high-ranking Nazi war criminals.
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C.
Pollsmoor Prison
Pollsmoor Prison is a high-security South African correctional facility in Cape Town, historically notable for holding prominent anti-apartheid activists including Nelson Mandela.
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D.
Victor Verster Prison
Victor Verster Prison is a South African correctional facility best known as the place where Nelson Mandela spent the final years of his imprisonment before his release in 1990.
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E.
Bilibid Prison
Bilibid Prison is a notorious high-security penitentiary complex in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila, Philippines, historically used to incarcerate prominent prisoners including war criminals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
penitentiary
ⓘ
prison ⓘ |
| afterWar | World War II ⓘ |
| bestKnownFor | holding Marshal Philippe Pétain after World War II ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| countryOfJurisdiction | French Republic ⓘ |
| hasSecurityFeature |
island location
ⓘ
restricted access by sea ⓘ |
| languageOfJurisdiction | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Metropolitan France
ⓘ
Pays de la Loire ⓘ Vendée ⓘ |
| locatedInBodyOfWater | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Île d’Yeu ⓘ |
| notablePrisoner | Philippe Pétain ⓘ |
| partOf | French prison system ⓘ |
| significantEvent | post–World War II imprisonment of Philippe Pétain ⓘ |
| usedFor |
detention of high-profile prisoners
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detention of political prisoners ⓘ |
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: Île d’Yeu prison Description of subject: Île d’Yeu prison was a French island penitentiary best known for holding Marshal Philippe Pétain during his post–World War II imprisonment.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.