Loire-Atlantique department
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Loire-Atlantique department is an administrative division in western France on the Atlantic coast, historically part of Brittany and known for its capital city, Nantes.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Loire-Atlantique department canonical | 13 |
| department of Loire-Atlantique | 3 |
| Loire-Atlantique | 1 |
| Loire-Atlantique departmental council | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T782006 — 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: Loire-Atlantique department Context triple: [Nantes, locatedIn, Loire-Atlantique department]
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A.
Gironde department
The Gironde department is an administrative region in southwestern France, known for encompassing much of the Bordeaux wine country and the city of Bordeaux.
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B.
Calvados department
The Calvados department is an administrative region in Normandy, northwestern France, known for its historic D-Day landing beaches, picturesque coastal towns, and production of the apple brandy that shares its name.
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C.
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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D.
Mayenne
Mayenne is a river in western France that flows through the regions of Normandy and Pays de la Loire before joining other waterways to form the Loire basin.
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E.
Allier department
The Allier department is an administrative region in central France, known for its historic towns, spa resorts like Vichy, and rural landscapes within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
- 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: Loire-Atlantique department Target entity description: Loire-Atlantique department is an administrative division in western France on the Atlantic coast, historically part of Brittany and known for its capital city, Nantes.
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A.
Gironde department
The Gironde department is an administrative region in southwestern France, known for encompassing much of the Bordeaux wine country and the city of Bordeaux.
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B.
Calvados department
The Calvados department is an administrative region in Normandy, northwestern France, known for its historic D-Day landing beaches, picturesque coastal towns, and production of the apple brandy that shares its name.
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C.
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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D.
Mayenne
Mayenne is a river in western France that flows through the regions of Normandy and Pays de la Loire before joining other waterways to form the Loire basin.
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E.
Allier department
The Allier department is an administrative region in central France, known for its historic towns, spa resorts like Vichy, and rural landscapes within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Loire-Atlantique department Description of subject: Loire-Atlantique department is an administrative division in western France on the Atlantic coast, historically part of Brittany and known for its capital city, Nantes.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Loire-Atlantique
this entity surface form:
Loire-Atlantique departmental council
subject surface form:
Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire
this entity surface form:
department of Loire-Atlantique
this entity surface form:
department of Loire-Atlantique
this entity surface form:
department of Loire-Atlantique