Versailles
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Versailles is a historic French city best known for the opulent Palace of Versailles, a former royal residence and a symbol of absolute monarchy and French cultural grandeur.
All labels observed (14)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T30372 — 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: Versailles Context triple: [Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, locationHeadquarters, Versailles]
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Vichy
Vichy is a spa town in central France renowned for its thermal springs, health resorts, and role as the seat of the World War II Vichy regime.
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B.
Château de la Muette
Château de la Muette is a historic former royal residence in Paris that now serves as the headquarters of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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C.
Bordeaux
Bordeaux is a renowned wine-producing region in southwestern France, famous for its prestigious red blends and long winemaking tradition.
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D.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France, renowned for its historic architecture, art, fashion, and cultural influence worldwide.
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E.
Château de Boncourt
Château de Boncourt was a French estate best known as the birthplace of the German Romantic poet and botanist Adelbert von Chamisso.
- 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: Versailles Target entity description: Versailles is a historic French city best known for the opulent Palace of Versailles, a former royal residence and a symbol of absolute monarchy and French cultural grandeur.
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A.
Vichy
Vichy is a spa town in central France renowned for its thermal springs, health resorts, and role as the seat of the World War II Vichy regime.
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B.
Château de la Muette
Château de la Muette is a historic former royal residence in Paris that now serves as the headquarters of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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C.
Bordeaux
Bordeaux is a renowned wine-producing region in southwestern France, famous for its prestigious red blends and long winemaking tradition.
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D.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France, renowned for its historic architecture, art, fashion, and cultural influence worldwide.
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E.
Château de Boncourt
Château de Boncourt was a French estate best known as the birthplace of the German Romantic poet and botanist Adelbert von Chamisso.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
commune of France ⓘ |
| contains |
Versailles
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Gardens of Versailles
Grand Trianon ⓘ Lycée Hoche ⓘ Versailles self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Palace of Versailles
Petit Trianon ⓘ Royal Chapel of Versailles ⓘ Versailles self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Royal Opera of Versailles
Versailles Cathedral ⓘ Versailles-Chantiers station ⓘ Versailles-Rive Droite station ⓘ Versailles-Rive Droite station ⓘ
surface form:
Versailles-Rive Gauche station
|
| country | France ⓘ |
| developedBy |
Louis XIV of France
ⓘ
surface form:
Louis XIV
|
| economicActivity |
services
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| eventLocation |
Women’s March on Versailles
ⓘ
Estates-General of 1789 ⓘ
surface form:
opening of the Estates-General of 1789
signing of the Treaty of Versailles ⓘ |
| foundedAsCapitalOfCourt | 1682 ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
King Louis XIII
ⓘ
surface form:
Louis XIII
|
| hasEducationalInstitution | Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines ⓘ |
| hasJudicialInstitution |
Court of Appeal of Versailles
ⓘ
surface form:
Administrative Court of Appeal of Versailles
Court of Appeal of Versailles ⓘ |
| hasTwinTown |
Nuremberg
ⓘ
Potsdam ⓘ Pushkin, Saint Petersburg ⓘ Windsor and Maidenhead ⓘ |
| hasUNESCOWorldHeritageSite |
Versailles
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Palace and Park of Versailles
|
| historicalRole |
de facto capital of the Kingdom of France
ⓘ
political center under Louis XIV ⓘ seat of French royal court ⓘ site of major diplomatic events ⓘ |
| knownFor |
French cultural heritage
ⓘ
French royal history ⓘ Versailles self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Palace of Versailles
symbol of absolute monarchy ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Yvelines
ⓘ
surface form:
Yvelines department
Île-de-France region ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea |
Paris
ⓘ
surface form:
Paris metropolitan area
|
| locatedNear | Paris ⓘ |
| population | over 80,000 inhabitants ⓘ |
| postalCode | 78000 ⓘ |
| role |
prefecture of Yvelines
ⓘ
subprefecture of arrondissement of Versailles ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| tourismImportance | major international tourist destination ⓘ |
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: Versailles Description of subject: Versailles is a historic French city best known for the opulent Palace of Versailles, a former royal residence and a symbol of absolute monarchy and French cultural grandeur.
Referenced by (282)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Seine-et-Oise
this entity surface form:
Versailles, France
subject surface form:
Secretary of State of the Navy (France)
subject surface form:
Northern France
subject surface form:
Faculty of Medicine, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
subject surface form:
Faculty of Science (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)
subject surface form:
Faculty of Social Sciences (UVSQ)
subject surface form:
Faculty of Engineering (UVSQ)
this entity surface form:
Satory, Versailles
subject surface form:
Royal Opera of Versailles
this entity surface form:
Versailles, France
this entity surface form:
Versailles, France
subject surface form:
Grand Canal (Versailles)