Colleville-sur-Mer
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Colleville-sur-Mer is a commune in Normandy, France, best known for its location by the D-Day landing beaches and the Normandy American Cemetery.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colleville-sur-Mer canonical | 6 |
| Colleville-Montgomery | 2 |
| Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T753618 — 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: Colleville-sur-Mer Context triple: [Omaha Beach, near, Colleville-sur-Mer]
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Vierville-sur-Mer
Vierville-sur-Mer is a coastal commune in Normandy, France, historically significant as one of the key landing areas during the D-Day invasion of World War II.
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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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Ouistreham
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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D.
Arromanches-les-Bains
Arromanches-les-Bains is a coastal town in Normandy, France, best known for its role in the D-Day landings and the remains of the Mulberry artificial harbor just offshore.
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E.
Cherbourg
Cherbourg is a major French port city on the Cotentin Peninsula, known for its strategic naval harbor and cross-Channel ferry connections.
- 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: Colleville-sur-Mer Target entity description: Colleville-sur-Mer is a commune in Normandy, France, best known for its location by the D-Day landing beaches and the Normandy American Cemetery.
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A.
Vierville-sur-Mer
Vierville-sur-Mer is a coastal commune in Normandy, France, historically significant as one of the key landing areas during the D-Day invasion of World War II.
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B.
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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C.
Ouistreham
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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D.
Arromanches-les-Bains
Arromanches-les-Bains is a coastal town in Normandy, France, best known for its role in the D-Day landings and the remains of the Mulberry artificial harbor just offshore.
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E.
Cherbourg
Cherbourg is a major French port city on the Cotentin Peninsula, known for its strategic naval harbor and cross-Channel ferry connections.
- 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: Colleville-sur-Mer Description of subject: Colleville-sur-Mer is a commune in Normandy, France, best known for its location by the D-Day landing beaches and the Normandy American Cemetery.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Colleville-Montgomery
this entity surface form:
Colleville-Montgomery
bronze statue "The Spirit of American Youth Rising from the Waves"
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location
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Colleville-sur-Mer
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subject surface form:
The Spirit of American Youth Rising from the Waves
this entity surface form:
Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France