Brétigny
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Brétigny is a commune in northern France historically notable as the site where the Treaty of Brétigny was signed during the Hundred Years' War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brétigny canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7003755 — 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: Brétigny Context triple: [Treaty of Brétigny, placeSigned, Brétigny]
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A.
Beauvais
Beauvais is a historic city in northern France known for its impressive Gothic cathedral and role as the capital of the Oise department.
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B.
Bayeux
Bayeux is a historic town in Normandy, France, renowned for the medieval Bayeux Tapestry and its proximity to the D-Day landing beaches.
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C.
Bayeux
Bayeux is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Paraíba, located in the northeastern region of the country and forming part of the João Pessoa metropolitan area.
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D.
Brienne-le-Château
Brienne-le-Château is a commune in northeastern France best known as the town where Napoleon Bonaparte attended military school in his youth.
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E.
Reims
Reims is a historic city in northeastern France known for its Gothic cathedral, role in French coronations, and significance during both World Wars.
- 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: Brétigny Target entity description: Brétigny is a commune in northern France historically notable as the site where the Treaty of Brétigny was signed during the Hundred Years' War.
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A.
Beauvais
Beauvais is a historic city in northern France known for its impressive Gothic cathedral and role as the capital of the Oise department.
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B.
Bayeux
Bayeux is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Paraíba, located in the northeastern region of the country and forming part of the João Pessoa metropolitan area.
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C.
Bayeux
Bayeux is a historic town in Normandy, France, renowned for the medieval Bayeux Tapestry and its proximity to the D-Day landing beaches.
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D.
Brienne-le-Château
Brienne-le-Château is a commune in northeastern France best known as the town where Napoleon Bonaparte attended military school in his youth.
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E.
Reims
Reims is a historic city in northeastern France known for its Gothic cathedral, role in French coronations, and significance during both World Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | commune ⓘ |
| category |
Communes in northern France
ⓘ
Historic sites of the Hundred Years' War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictContext | Hundred Years' War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| eventDateAtLocation | 1360 (Treaty of Brétigny) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governingBody | municipal government of Brétigny ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | municipal council ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | medieval history of France ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | site of the Treaty of Brétigny ⓘ |
| hasLegalSystem | French law ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage |
Brétigny@en
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brétigny@fr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | rural commune ⓘ |
| hasToponymType | French toponym ⓘ |
| historicallyAssociatedWith |
Kingdom of England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kingdom of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Hundred Years' War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | northern France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInGeopoliticalRegion | Northern France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Treaty of Brétigny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | French commune system ⓘ |
| sovereignState | French Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| usedLanguage | French ⓘ |
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: Brétigny Description of subject: Brétigny is a commune in northern France historically notable as the site where the Treaty of Brétigny was signed during the Hundred Years' War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.