Illiers
E893750
Illiers is a commune in northern France best known for inspiring the fictional town of Combray in Marcel Proust’s "In Search of Lost Time."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Illiers canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10934706 — 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: Illiers Context triple: [Illiers-Combray, formerName, Illiers]
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A.
Liré
Liré is a village in western France, historically notable as the birthplace of Renaissance poet Joachim du Bellay.
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B.
Maurepas
Maurepas is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region of north-central France, known as a residential suburb southwest of Paris.
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C.
Moulinois
Moulinois is the French term for an inhabitant or native of the town of Moulins in central France.
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D.
Semailles
Semailles is a section of Alexandre Grothendieck’s autobiographical and philosophical manuscript "Récoltes et Semailles," reflecting his personal reflections on mathematics, life, and the mathematical community.
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E.
Lantheuil
Lantheuil is a small commune in the Calvados department of the Normandy region in northwestern France.
- 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: Illiers Target entity description: Illiers is a commune in northern France best known for inspiring the fictional town of Combray in Marcel Proust’s "In Search of Lost Time."
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A.
Liré
Liré is a village in western France, historically notable as the birthplace of Renaissance poet Joachim du Bellay.
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B.
Maurepas
Maurepas is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region of north-central France, known as a residential suburb southwest of Paris.
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C.
Moulinois
Moulinois is the French term for an inhabitant or native of the town of Moulins in central France.
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D.
Semailles
Semailles is a section of Alexandre Grothendieck’s autobiographical and philosophical manuscript "Récoltes et Semailles," reflecting his personal reflections on mathematics, life, and the mathematical community.
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E.
Lantheuil
Lantheuil is a small commune in the Calvados department of the Normandy region in northwestern France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | commune of France ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | Marcel Proust NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithWork | "In Search of Lost Time" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicRegion | northern France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance | important place in Proust studies ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentForm | commune government ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | Proustian literary heritage ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType |
commune
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| hasTimezone |
Central European Summer Time
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Central European Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspired | fictional town of Combray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageUsed | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn | northern France ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Centre-Val de Loire region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eure-et-Loir department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
UTC+01:00
ⓘ
UTC+02:00 ⓘ |
| notableFor | inspiring the fictional town of Combray in Marcel Proust’s "In Search of Lost Time" ⓘ |
| partOf |
Centre-Val de Loire region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eure-et-Loir department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tourismType | literary tourism destination ⓘ |
| 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: Illiers Description of subject: Illiers is a commune in northern France best known for inspiring the fictional town of Combray in Marcel Proust’s "In Search of Lost Time."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.