Le Havre, France
E826433
Le Havre, France is a major port city on the Normandy coast known for its post-World War II modernist architecture and UNESCO-listed urban design.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Havre de Grâce (Le Havre), France | 1 |
| Le Havre, France canonical | 1 |
| city of Le Havre | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9875382 — 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: Le Havre, France Context triple: [FRLEH, associatedWithCity, Le Havre, France]
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A.
Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France
Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France is a picturesque seaside resort town on the French Riviera known for its Mediterranean beaches, Belle Époque architecture, and luxury yachting harbor.
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B.
Port of Le Havre
The Port of Le Havre is one of France’s largest and busiest seaports, serving as a major gateway for maritime trade on the English Channel and the North Sea.
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C.
Bayonne, France
Bayonne, France is a historic city in southwestern France near the Atlantic coast, known for its Basque culture, medieval old town, and renowned chocolate and cured ham.
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D.
Cité du Havre
Cité du Havre is a man-made peninsula in Montreal, Canada, known for hosting the iconic Habitat 67 housing complex and offering waterfront views of the Saint Lawrence River and the city skyline.
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E.
Roscoff, France
Roscoff, France is a small coastal town in Brittany known for its historic port, thalassotherapy centers, and traditional onion-growing heritage.
- 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: Le Havre, France Target entity description: Le Havre, France is a major port city on the Normandy coast known for its post-World War II modernist architecture and UNESCO-listed urban design.
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A.
Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France
Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France is a picturesque seaside resort town on the French Riviera known for its Mediterranean beaches, Belle Époque architecture, and luxury yachting harbor.
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B.
Port of Le Havre
The Port of Le Havre is one of France’s largest and busiest seaports, serving as a major gateway for maritime trade on the English Channel and the North Sea.
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C.
Bayonne, France
Bayonne, France is a historic city in southwestern France near the Atlantic coast, known for its Basque culture, medieval old town, and renowned chocolate and cured ham.
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D.
Cité du Havre
Cité du Havre is a man-made peninsula in Montreal, Canada, known for hosting the iconic Habitat 67 housing complex and offering waterfront views of the Saint Lawrence River and the city skyline.
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E.
Roscoff, France
Roscoff, France is a small coastal town in Brittany known for its historic port, thalassotherapy centers, and traditional onion-growing heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
commune of France ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | commune ⓘ |
| architecturalReconstructionLedBy | Auguste Perret NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | oceanic climate ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| departmentCode | 76 ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Francis I of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1517 ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Hôtel de Ville of Le Havre
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Le Volcan cultural center NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Joseph’s Church, Le Havre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMuseum | Musée d’Art Moderne André Malraux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
seaport
ⓘ
subprefecture of Seine-Maritime ⓘ |
| hasUniversity | University of Le Havre Normandie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heavilyDamagedIn | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| is | major port city ⓘ |
| knownFor |
UNESCO-listed urban design
ⓘ
container shipping ⓘ cross-Channel maritime traffic ⓘ large commercial port ⓘ post-World War II modernist architecture ⓘ |
| locatedAtMouthOf | Seine River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Normandy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Seine-Maritime department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | English Channel ⓘ |
| mayorTitle | Mayor of Le Havre ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | the harbor ⓘ |
| originalName |
Francisville
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Le Havre-de-Grâce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Northern France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationApproximate | 170000 ⓘ |
| portRankInFranceByTraffic | among largest ⓘ |
| postalCodeRange | 76600–76620 ⓘ |
| reconstructionPeriod | 1945–1964 ⓘ |
| regionCapitalOf | Le Havre arrondissement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sportsClub | Le Havre AC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | CET ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CEST ⓘ |
| twinCity |
Dalian
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southampton NERFINISHED ⓘ Tanger Med region (Tangier area) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria |
(ii)
ⓘ
(iv) ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageInscriptionYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageStatus | yes ⓘ |
| urbanAreaPopulationApproximate | 240000 ⓘ |
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: Le Havre, France Description of subject: Le Havre, France is a major port city on the Normandy coast known for its post-World War II modernist architecture and UNESCO-listed urban design.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Havre de Grâce (Le Havre), France
this entity surface form:
city of Le Havre