Canton of Granville
E656458
The Canton of Granville is an administrative division in the Manche department of northwestern France, centered on the coastal town of Granville.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Canton of Granville canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7340814 — 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: Canton of Granville Context triple: [Granville, locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity, Canton of Granville]
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A.
Canton of Courseulles-sur-Mer
The Canton of Courseulles-sur-Mer is an administrative division in the Calvados department of northwestern France, encompassing the coastal town of Courseulles-sur-Mer and surrounding communes.
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B.
canton of Carentan-les-Marais
The canton of Carentan-les-Marais is an administrative division in the Manche department of northwestern France that includes several communes, among them the historic town of Sainte-Mère-Église.
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C.
canton of Pont-l’Évêque
The canton of Pont-l’Évêque is an administrative division in the Calvados department of northwestern France, centered on the town of Pont-l’Évêque and comprising several surrounding communes.
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D.
Canton of Pays de Lafayette
The Canton of Pays de Lafayette is an administrative division in south-central France named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette and encompassing his birthplace of Chavaniac-Lafayette and surrounding communes.
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E.
canton of Mont-Saint-Aignan
The canton of Mont-Saint-Aignan is an administrative division in the Seine-Maritime department of northern France, centered on the suburban town of Mont-Saint-Aignan near Rouen.
- 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: Canton of Granville Target entity description: The Canton of Granville is an administrative division in the Manche department of northwestern France, centered on the coastal town of Granville.
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A.
Canton of Courseulles-sur-Mer
The Canton of Courseulles-sur-Mer is an administrative division in the Calvados department of northwestern France, encompassing the coastal town of Courseulles-sur-Mer and surrounding communes.
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B.
canton of Carentan-les-Marais
The canton of Carentan-les-Marais is an administrative division in the Manche department of northwestern France that includes several communes, among them the historic town of Sainte-Mère-Église.
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C.
canton of Pont-l’Évêque
The canton of Pont-l’Évêque is an administrative division in the Calvados department of northwestern France, centered on the town of Pont-l’Évêque and comprising several surrounding communes.
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D.
Canton of Pays de Lafayette
The Canton of Pays de Lafayette is an administrative division in south-central France named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette and encompassing his birthplace of Chavaniac-Lafayette and surrounding communes.
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E.
canton of Mont-Saint-Aignan
The canton of Mont-Saint-Aignan is an administrative division in the Seine-Maritime department of northern France, centered on the suburban town of Mont-Saint-Aignan near Rouen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | canton of France ⓘ |
| administrativeCenter | Granville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appliesAdministrativeDivisionCode | INSEE code 50 13 ⓘ |
| capital | Granville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Donville-les-Bains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Granville NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Pair-sur-Mer NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Planchers NERFINISHED ⓘ Yquelon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| effectiveFrom | March 2015 ⓘ |
| elects | departmental councillors of Manche ⓘ |
| governingBody | Departmental Council of Manche NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBorderWith |
Canton of Avranches
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Canton of Bréhal NERFINISHED ⓘ Canton of Pontorson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoastlineOn | English Channel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Manche department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ northwestern France ⓘ |
| locatedInGeographicalRegion | Cotentin Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | northwestern France ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedOn | English Channel ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Granville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf |
French administrative division system
ⓘ
arrondissement of Avranches NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reorganizedIn | French canton reorganisation of 2015 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seat | Granville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | canton ⓘ |
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: Canton of Granville Description of subject: The Canton of Granville is an administrative division in the Manche department of northwestern France, centered on the coastal town of Granville.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Granville