Ancienne Douane de Strasbourg
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Ancienne Douane de Strasbourg is a historic former customs house on Strasbourg’s Grande Île, notable for its medieval architecture and role in the city’s commercial past.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ancienne Douane de Strasbourg canonical | 3 |
| Ancienne Douane | 2 |
| Old Customs House of Strasbourg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T698555 — 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: Ancienne Douane de Strasbourg Context triple: [Grande Île, hasLandmark, Ancienne Douane de Strasbourg]
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A.
Strasbourg Cathedral
Strasbourg Cathedral is a towering Gothic masterpiece in Strasbourg, France, renowned for its intricate façade, astronomical clock, and once being the world’s tallest building.
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B.
Gare de Strasbourg
Gare de Strasbourg is the main railway station of Strasbourg in northeastern France, serving as a major regional and international rail hub, including high-speed TGV connections.
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C.
Louise Weiss building (Strasbourg)
The Louise Weiss building in Strasbourg is the distinctive, modern complex that serves as the main seat of the European Parliament and houses various European Union institutions.
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D.
Mondorf-les-Bains
Mondorf-les-Bains is a spa town in southeastern Luxembourg renowned for its thermal baths, wellness facilities, and casino.
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E.
Châtelet–Les Halles
Châtelet–Les Halles is a major underground transport hub in central Paris, serving as one of the largest and busiest railway and metro stations in Europe.
- 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: Ancienne Douane de Strasbourg Target entity description: Ancienne Douane de Strasbourg is a historic former customs house on Strasbourg’s Grande Île, notable for its medieval architecture and role in the city’s commercial past.
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A.
Strasbourg Cathedral
Strasbourg Cathedral is a towering Gothic masterpiece in Strasbourg, France, renowned for its intricate façade, astronomical clock, and once being the world’s tallest building.
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B.
Gare de Strasbourg
Gare de Strasbourg is the main railway station of Strasbourg in northeastern France, serving as a major regional and international rail hub, including high-speed TGV connections.
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C.
Louise Weiss building (Strasbourg)
The Louise Weiss building in Strasbourg is the distinctive, modern complex that serves as the main seat of the European Parliament and houses various European Union institutions.
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D.
Mondorf-les-Bains
Mondorf-les-Bains is a spa town in southeastern Luxembourg renowned for its thermal baths, wellness facilities, and casino.
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E.
Châtelet–Les Halles
Châtelet–Les Halles is a major underground transport hub in central Paris, serving as one of the largest and busiest railway and metro stations in Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former customs house
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historic building ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | medieval architecture ⓘ |
| belongsTo | historic riverfront of Strasbourg ⓘ |
| city | Strasbourg ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| hasBuildingType |
administrative building
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warehouse ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | symbol of Strasbourg’s mercantile past ⓘ |
| hasEconomicRoleInThePast |
controlled commercial traffic on the Ill River
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facilitated river trade ⓘ |
| hasFunctionInThePast | customs house ⓘ |
| hasHistoricUse |
collection of customs duties
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transit point for traded goods ⓘ |
| hasNameInEnglish |
Ancienne Douane de Strasbourg
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Old Customs House of Strasbourg
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| hasNameInFrench |
Ancienne Douane de Strasbourg
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Ancienne Douane
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| hasRelationTo |
Strasbourg’s commercial history
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river trade on the Ill ⓘ |
| hasSetting | medieval urban fabric of Strasbourg ⓘ |
| hasTourismRole | cultural tourism site ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
UNESCO World Heritage Site “Strasbourg – Grande île”
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surface form:
UNESCO World Heritage Site (as part of Strasbourg – Grande Île)
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| heritageStatus | protected historic monument ⓘ |
| isHistoricLandmark | yes ⓘ |
| isIncludedIn |
UNESCO World Heritage Site “Strasbourg – Grande île”
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surface form:
Strasbourg – Grande Île UNESCO World Heritage property
|
| isLocatedNear |
Place du Corbeau
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Strasbourg Cathedral ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Grande Île de Strasbourg
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surface form:
urban ensemble of Strasbourg – Grande Île
|
| isTouristDestination | yes ⓘ |
| locatedBy | Ill River ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bas-Rhin
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France ⓘ Grand Est ⓘ Strasbourg ⓘ |
| locatedInOldTown | Strasbourg old town ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Grande Île de Strasbourg ⓘ |
| notableFor |
location on Grande Île
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medieval architecture ⓘ role in Strasbourg’s commercial history ⓘ |
| partOf | historic center of Strasbourg ⓘ |
| region | Alsace ⓘ |
| significantPeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial activities
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customs ⓘ storage of goods ⓘ |
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: Ancienne Douane de Strasbourg Description of subject: Ancienne Douane de Strasbourg is a historic former customs house on Strasbourg’s Grande Île, notable for its medieval architecture and role in the city’s commercial past.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Ancienne Douane de Strasbourg
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hasNameInFrench
→
Ancienne Douane de Strasbourg
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Ancienne Douane
Ancienne Douane de Strasbourg
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hasNameInEnglish
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Ancienne Douane de Strasbourg
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Old Customs House of Strasbourg
this entity surface form:
Ancienne Douane