OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences campus Buchs
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OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences campus Buchs is a regional Swiss higher education campus offering applied sciences programs and research activities in the town of Buchs in the canton of St. Gallen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences campus Buchs canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13406864 — 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: OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences campus Buchs Context triple: [Buchs SG, hasEducationalInstitution, OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences campus Buchs]
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A.
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland campus Brugg-Windisch
The University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland campus Brugg-Windisch is a regional higher education site offering practice-oriented bachelor’s and master’s programs in fields such as engineering, business, and social work.
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B.
Bern University of Applied Sciences (campus in Biel/Bienne)
Bern University of Applied Sciences’ Biel/Bienne campus is a Swiss higher education institution known for its practice-oriented programs and research in fields such as engineering, technology, and applied sciences.
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C.
Zurich University of Applied Sciences campus in Winterthur
The Zurich University of Applied Sciences campus in Winterthur is a major Swiss higher education hub offering practice-oriented bachelor’s and master’s programs in fields such as engineering, business, health, and social sciences.
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D.
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts is a Swiss public university of applied sciences offering practice-oriented education and research in fields such as engineering, business, social work, art, and music.
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E.
University of Lucerne
The University of Lucerne is a Swiss public university known for its strong focus on law, theology, cultural and social sciences, and economics within a compact, research-oriented campus in the city of Lucerne.
- 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: OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences campus Buchs Target entity description: OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences campus Buchs is a regional Swiss higher education campus offering applied sciences programs and research activities in the town of Buchs in the canton of St. Gallen.
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A.
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland campus Brugg-Windisch
The University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland campus Brugg-Windisch is a regional higher education site offering practice-oriented bachelor’s and master’s programs in fields such as engineering, business, and social work.
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B.
Bern University of Applied Sciences (campus in Biel/Bienne)
Bern University of Applied Sciences’ Biel/Bienne campus is a Swiss higher education institution known for its practice-oriented programs and research in fields such as engineering, technology, and applied sciences.
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C.
Zurich University of Applied Sciences campus in Winterthur
The Zurich University of Applied Sciences campus in Winterthur is a major Swiss higher education hub offering practice-oriented bachelor’s and master’s programs in fields such as engineering, business, health, and social sciences.
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D.
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts is a Swiss public university of applied sciences offering practice-oriented education and research in fields such as engineering, business, social work, art, and music.
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E.
University of Lucerne
The University of Lucerne is a Swiss public university known for its strong focus on law, theology, cultural and social sciences, and economics within a compact, research-oriented campus in the city of Lucerne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
higher education institution site
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university campus ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
applied research
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practice-oriented education ⓘ |
| governedBy | canton of St. Gallen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | OST campus Buchs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAffiliation | public higher education system of Switzerland ⓘ |
| hasEducationalLevel |
bachelor programs
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master programs ⓘ |
| hasParentOrganization | OST – Ostschweizer Fachhochschule NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction | German ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Buchs
NERFINISHED
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Rhine Valley region of St. Gallen NERFINISHED ⓘ canton of St. Gallen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
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Central European Time ⓘ |
| offers |
applied sciences programs
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continuing education programs ⓘ research activities ⓘ |
| partOf | OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed | Eastern Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sector | tertiary education ⓘ |
| typeOfInstitution | university of applied sciences campus ⓘ |
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: OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences campus Buchs Description of subject: OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences campus Buchs is a regional Swiss higher education campus offering applied sciences programs and research activities in the town of Buchs in the canton of St. Gallen.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Buchs SG
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hasEducationalInstitution
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OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences campus Buchs
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