commune of Thoiry (Ain)
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The commune of Thoiry (Ain) is a small municipality in the Ain department of eastern France, situated near the Swiss border in the Pays de Gex region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| commune of Thoiry (Ain) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T688634 — 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: commune of Thoiry (Ain) Context triple: [Saint-Genis-Pouilly, sharesBorderWith, commune of Thoiry (Ain)]
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A.
arrondissement of Gex
The arrondissement of Gex is an administrative district in eastern France’s Ain department, bordering Switzerland and encompassing several communes including Ferney-Voltaire.
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B.
Ain department
Ain department is an administrative region in eastern France known for its diverse landscapes, historic towns, and proximity to both the Alps and the Swiss border.
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C.
Bonneuil-en-France
Bonneuil-en-France is a small commune in the Val-d'Oise department in northern France, situated in the northeastern suburbs of Paris near major transport and aviation hubs.
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D.
Prévessin-Moëns
Prévessin-Moëns is a French commune in the Ain department of eastern France, located near Geneva and known for its proximity to the CERN research center.
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E.
Beaune
Beaune is a historic town in eastern France renowned as the wine capital of Burgundy and a center of Burgundy’s prestigious vineyards and wine trade.
- 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: commune of Thoiry (Ain) Target entity description: The commune of Thoiry (Ain) is a small municipality in the Ain department of eastern France, situated near the Swiss border in the Pays de Gex region.
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A.
arrondissement of Gex
The arrondissement of Gex is an administrative district in eastern France’s Ain department, bordering Switzerland and encompassing several communes including Ferney-Voltaire.
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B.
Ain department
Ain department is an administrative region in eastern France known for its diverse landscapes, historic towns, and proximity to both the Alps and the Swiss border.
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C.
Bonneuil-en-France
Bonneuil-en-France is a small commune in the Val-d'Oise department in northern France, situated in the northeastern suburbs of Paris near major transport and aviation hubs.
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D.
Prévessin-Moëns
Prévessin-Moëns is a French commune in the Ain department of eastern France, located near Geneva and known for its proximity to the CERN research center.
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E.
Beaune
Beaune is a historic town in eastern France renowned as the wine capital of Burgundy and a center of Burgundy’s prestigious vineyards and wine trade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | commune ⓘ |
| belongsToHistoricalRegion | Pays de Gex ⓘ |
| borderingCountryNearby | Switzerland ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| departmentCode | 01 ⓘ |
| hasBorderWith | Switzerland ⓘ |
| hasGeographicalCharacteristic | border region ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalStatus | small municipality ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Pays de Gex ⓘ |
| higherAdministrativeUnit |
Ain department
ⓘ
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ain department
ⓘ
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region ⓘ France–Switzerland border area ⓘ Pays de Gex ⓘ eastern France ⓘ eastern foothills of the Jura (approximate region) ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Geneva
ⓘ
Swiss border ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| nearInternationalCity | Geneva ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf |
arrondissement of Gex
ⓘ
canton of Thoiry ⓘ |
| postalCode | 01710 ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | commune ⓘ |
| timeZone | CET ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CEST ⓘ |
| usesCurrency | euro ⓘ |
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: commune of Thoiry (Ain) Description of subject: The commune of Thoiry (Ain) is a small municipality in the Ain department of eastern France, situated near the Swiss border in the Pays de Gex region.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.