canton of Marennes
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The canton of Marennes was a former administrative division in the Charente-Maritime department of southwestern France, centered around the coastal town of Marennes and known for its oyster-farming areas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| canton of Marennes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7758550 — 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 Marennes Context triple: [Brouage, administrativeDivision, canton of Marennes]
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A.
canton of L’Entre-Deux-Mers
The canton of L’Entre-Deux-Mers is an administrative division in southwestern France, located in the Gironde department and known for its wine-producing rural landscapes between the Garonne and Dordogne rivers.
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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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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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E.
canton of Mantes-la-Jolie
The canton of Mantes-la-Jolie is an administrative division in the Yvelines department of north-central France, centered on the town of Mantes-la-Jolie and grouping several surrounding communes for local governance and elections.
- 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 Marennes Target entity description: The canton of Marennes was a former administrative division in the Charente-Maritime department of southwestern France, centered around the coastal town of Marennes and known for its oyster-farming areas.
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A.
canton of L’Entre-Deux-Mers
The canton of L’Entre-Deux-Mers is an administrative division in southwestern France, located in the Gironde department and known for its wine-producing rural landscapes between the Garonne and Dordogne rivers.
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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 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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E.
canton of Mantes-la-Jolie
The canton of Mantes-la-Jolie is an administrative division in the Yvelines department of north-central France, centered on the town of Mantes-la-Jolie and grouping several surrounding communes for local governance and elections.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | former French canton ⓘ |
| administrativeCenter | Marennes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderedBy | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| dissolvedBy | French canton reorganisation of 2015 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dissolvedOn | 2015 ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
oyster farming areas
ⓘ
shellfish farming ⓘ |
| hasCoastlineOn | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| hasMunicipality |
Bourcefranc-le-Chapus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hiers-Brouage NERFINISHED ⓘ Le Gua (Charente-Maritime) NERFINISHED ⓘ Marennes NERFINISHED ⓘ Nieulle-sur-Seudre NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Just-Luzac NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Sornin (Charente-Maritime) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | oyster farming ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Charente-Maritime department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nouvelle-Aquitaine ⓘ
surface form:
Nouvelle-Aquitaine region
southwestern France ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Marennes-Oléron basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Marennes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
arrondissement of Rochefort
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
former cantons of Charente-Maritime NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedBy | canton of Marennes (2015) (new delimitation) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Marennes Description of subject: The canton of Marennes was a former administrative division in the Charente-Maritime department of southwestern France, centered around the coastal town of Marennes and known for its oyster-farming areas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.