Arrondissement of Aalst
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The Arrondissement of Aalst is an administrative district in the Belgian province of East Flanders that groups several municipalities, including the city of Aalst and surrounding towns such as Zottegem.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arrondissement of Aalst canonical | 12 |
| Arrondissement Aalst | 1 |
| arrondissement of Aalst | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13023177 — 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: Arrondissement of Aalst Context triple: [Zottegem, partOf, Arrondissement of Aalst]
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A.
Arrondissement of Veurne
The Arrondissement of Veurne is an administrative district in the Belgian province of West Flanders that encompasses several municipalities in the coastal and hinterland region, including Nieuwpoort.
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B.
Arrondissement of Dendermonde
The Arrondissement of Dendermonde is an administrative district in the Belgian province of East Flanders that groups together several municipalities, including the city of Dendermonde, for local governance and judicial purposes.
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C.
Arrondissement of Oudenaarde
The Arrondissement of Oudenaarde is an administrative district in the Belgian province of East Flanders, encompassing several municipalities in the Flemish Ardennes region.
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D.
Arrondissement of Diksmuide
The Arrondissement of Diksmuide is an administrative district in the Belgian province of West Flanders that encompasses the town of Diksmuide and surrounding municipalities.
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E.
Arrondissement of Mechelen
The Arrondissement of Mechelen is an administrative district in the Belgian province of Antwerp that encompasses the city of Mechelen and surrounding municipalities.
- 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: Arrondissement of Aalst Target entity description: The Arrondissement of Aalst is an administrative district in the Belgian province of East Flanders that groups several municipalities, including the city of Aalst and surrounding towns such as Zottegem.
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A.
Arrondissement of Veurne
The Arrondissement of Veurne is an administrative district in the Belgian province of West Flanders that encompasses several municipalities in the coastal and hinterland region, including Nieuwpoort.
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B.
Arrondissement of Dendermonde
The Arrondissement of Dendermonde is an administrative district in the Belgian province of East Flanders that groups together several municipalities, including the city of Dendermonde, for local governance and judicial purposes.
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C.
Arrondissement of Oudenaarde
The Arrondissement of Oudenaarde is an administrative district in the Belgian province of East Flanders, encompassing several municipalities in the Flemish Ardennes region.
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D.
Arrondissement of Diksmuide
The Arrondissement of Diksmuide is an administrative district in the Belgian province of West Flanders that encompasses the town of Diksmuide and surrounding municipalities.
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E.
Arrondissement of Mechelen
The Arrondissement of Mechelen is an administrative district in the Belgian province of Antwerp that encompasses the city of Mechelen and surrounding municipalities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative arrondissement
ⓘ
arrondissement of Belgium ⓘ |
| containsMunicipality |
Aalst
ⓘ
Denderleeuw ⓘ Erpe-Mere ⓘ Geraardsbergen ⓘ Haaltert ⓘ Herzele ⓘ Lede ⓘ Ninove ⓘ Oosterzele ⓘ Sint-Lievens-Houtem ⓘ Zottegem ⓘ |
| country | Belgium ⓘ |
| hasAdministrativeCentre | Aalst ⓘ |
| hasCapital | Aalst ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | local administration ⓘ |
| hasNameInDutch |
Arrondissement Aalst
ⓘ
linked to:
Arrondissement of Aalst
|
| hasNameInFrench | Arrondissement d'Alost ⓘ |
| hasSubdivisionType | municipality ⓘ |
| isLocatedInNorthernPartOf | Belgium ⓘ |
| isSubdivisionOf |
Province of East Flanders
ⓘ
linked to:
East Flanders
|
| locatedIn |
Belgium
ⓘ
East Flanders ⓘ Flanders ⓘ Flemish Region ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | Central European Summer Time ⓘ |
| partOf |
Judicial arrondissement of East Flanders
ⓘ
Province of East Flanders ⓘ
linked to:
East Flanders
|
| usesLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
| usesOfficialLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
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: Arrondissement of Aalst Description of subject: The Arrondissement of Aalst is an administrative district in the Belgian province of East Flanders that groups several municipalities, including the city of Aalst and surrounding towns such as Zottegem.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Arrondissement of Aalst
linked to: Arrondissement of Aalst