Ouistreham
E90830
Ouistreham is a coastal town in Normandy, France, known for its ferry port and its location at the eastern end of the D-Day landing area of Sword Beach.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ouistreham canonical | 15 |
| Ouistreham commune | 1 |
| Ouistreham ferry port | 1 |
| Port of Ouistreham | 1 |
| ferry terminal of Ouistreham | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T705018 — 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: Ouistreham Context triple: [Sword Beach, notableTown, Ouistreham]
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A.
Honfleur
Honfleur is a historic port town in Normandy, northern France, renowned for its picturesque old harbor, timber-framed houses, and association with Impressionist painters.
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B.
Cherbourg
Cherbourg is a major French port city on the Cotentin Peninsula, known for its strategic naval harbor and cross-Channel ferry connections.
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C.
Calais
Calais is a major French port city on the northern coast, serving as one of the primary crossing points between France and England.
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D.
Ventnor
Ventnor is a seaside resort town on the south coast of England’s Isle of Wight, known for its mild microclimate and Victorian-era architecture.
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E.
Anstruther
Anstruther is a picturesque fishing village and popular tourist destination on Scotland’s east coast, known for its historic harbour and award-winning fish and chips.
- 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: Ouistreham Target entity description: Ouistreham is a coastal town in Normandy, France, known for its ferry port and its location at the eastern end of the D-Day landing area of Sword Beach.
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A.
Honfleur
Honfleur is a historic port town in Normandy, northern France, renowned for its picturesque old harbor, timber-framed houses, and association with Impressionist painters.
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B.
Cherbourg
Cherbourg is a major French port city on the Cotentin Peninsula, known for its strategic naval harbor and cross-Channel ferry connections.
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C.
Calais
Calais is a major French port city on the northern coast, serving as one of the primary crossing points between France and England.
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D.
Ventnor
Ventnor is a seaside resort town on the south coast of England’s Isle of Wight, known for its mild microclimate and Victorian-era architecture.
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E.
Anstruther
Anstruther is a picturesque fishing village and popular tourist destination on Scotland’s east coast, known for its historic harbour and award-winning fish and chips.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Ouistreham Description of subject: Ouistreham is a coastal town in Normandy, France, known for its ferry port and its location at the eastern end of the D-Day landing area of Sword Beach.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
716th Infantry Division
this entity surface form:
Port of Ouistreham
this entity surface form:
Ouistreham commune
this entity surface form:
ferry terminal of Ouistreham
this entity surface form:
Ouistreham ferry port