Bretteville-sur-Laize
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Bretteville-sur-Laize is a commune in the Calvados department of northwestern France, known for its location in the Normandy region and its World War II history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bretteville-sur-Laize canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7091474 — 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: Bretteville-sur-Laize Context triple: [Arrondissement of Caen, contains, Bretteville-sur-Laize]
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Bretteville-sur-Odon
Bretteville-sur-Odon is a commune in the Calvados department of northwestern France, situated near the city of Caen along the Odon River.
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Yvetot
Yvetot is a small town in the Seine-Maritime department of Normandy in northern France, historically known as the seat of a medieval "kingdom" within France.
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C.
Bénouville
Bénouville is a commune in the Calvados department of Normandy in northwestern France, known for its historic Pegasus Bridge from World War II.
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D.
Mouvaux
Mouvaux is a suburban commune in northern France that forms part of the Lille metropolitan area.
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E.
Saint-Clair-sur-Epte
Saint-Clair-sur-Epte is a commune in northern France, historically notable as the site of the 911 Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between the Frankish king Charles the Simple and the Viking leader Rollo, which led to the creation of Normandy.
- 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: Bretteville-sur-Laize Target entity description: Bretteville-sur-Laize is a commune in the Calvados department of northwestern France, known for its location in the Normandy region and its World War II history.
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A.
Bretteville-sur-Odon
Bretteville-sur-Odon is a commune in the Calvados department of northwestern France, situated near the city of Caen along the Odon River.
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B.
Yvetot
Yvetot is a small town in the Seine-Maritime department of Normandy in northern France, historically known as the seat of a medieval "kingdom" within France.
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C.
Bénouville
Bénouville is a commune in the Calvados department of Normandy in northwestern France, known for its historic Pegasus Bridge from World War II.
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D.
Mouvaux
Mouvaux is a suburban commune in northern France that forms part of the Lille metropolitan area.
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E.
Saint-Clair-sur-Epte
Saint-Clair-sur-Epte is a commune in northern France, historically notable as the site of the 911 Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between the Frankish king Charles the Simple and the Viking leader Rollo, which led to the creation of Normandy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| area | approximately 9.68 square kilometres ⓘ |
| commemorates | Canadian soldiers killed in Normandy campaign ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 60 metres ⓘ |
| governedBy | municipal council of Bretteville-sur-Laize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCanadianWarCemeteryLocation | southeast of Caen ⓘ |
| hasClimate | oceanic climate ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLocation | 49.063°N 0.322°W ⓘ |
| hasDemonym |
Brettevillais
ⓘ
Brettevillaise ⓘ |
| hasDepartment | Calvados NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDepartmentType | department of France ⓘ |
| hasHeritageSite | Église Saint-Martin de Bretteville-sur-Laize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalEvent | World War II fighting in Normandy campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasINSEECode | 14098 ⓘ |
| hasIntercommunality | Cingal-Suisse Normande NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMaximumElevation | about 130 metres ⓘ |
| hasMayor | Bruno François NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMayorTermEnd | 2026 ⓘ |
| hasMayorTermStart | 2020 ⓘ |
| hasMemorialType | Commonwealth War Graves cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMinimumElevation | about 38 metres ⓘ |
| hasNearbyBattle |
Operation Totalize
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Operation Tractable NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPopulationCentreType | rural commune ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 14680 ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRegionType | administrative region of France ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | commune ⓘ |
| hasWarCemetery | Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Pays de Caen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Calvados
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ northwestern France ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricalRegion | Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInMilitaryTheater | Normandy landings aftermath ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Caen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Laize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf |
arrondissement of Caen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
canton of Le Hom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadAccess |
D23 road
ⓘ
D562 road ⓘ |
| usedLanguageInAdministration | 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: Bretteville-sur-Laize Description of subject: Bretteville-sur-Laize is a commune in the Calvados department of northwestern France, known for its location in the Normandy region and its World War II history.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.