Meyrin, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland
E1912
Meyrin is a municipality in the Canton of Geneva in southwestern Switzerland best known for hosting the main campus of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meyrin, Switzerland | 3 |
| Meyrin, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20778 — 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: Meyrin, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland Context triple: [CERN, headquartersLocation, Meyrin, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland]
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A.
Geneva
Geneva is a major Swiss city on Lake Geneva known for hosting numerous international organizations, including United Nations agencies and the Red Cross.
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B.
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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C.
Heavenly Mountain Resort
Heavenly Mountain Resort is a major ski and snowboard destination in the Sierra Nevada known for its expansive terrain, vibrant après-ski scene, and panoramic views of Lake Tahoe.
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D.
Hyde Park, New York, United States
Hyde Park, New York, United States is a Hudson River town best known as the lifelong home of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and site of his presidential library and estate.
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E.
de Forest
de Forest is a surname most notably associated with Lee de Forest, an American inventor and early pioneer of radio and electronic communication.
- 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: Meyrin, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland Target entity description: Meyrin is a municipality in the Canton of Geneva in southwestern Switzerland best known for hosting the main campus of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
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A.
Geneva
Geneva is a major Swiss city on Lake Geneva known for hosting numerous international organizations, including United Nations agencies and the Red Cross.
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B.
Swiss Patent Office in Bern
The Swiss Patent Office in Bern was the government institution where Albert Einstein worked as a technical expert while developing many of his groundbreaking ideas in physics.
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C.
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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D.
Gori
Gori is a city in central Georgia best known as the birthplace of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
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E.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France, renowned for its historic architecture, art, fashion, and cultural influence worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipality ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Collex-Bossy
ⓘ
Ferney-Voltaire ⓘ Pregny-Chambésy ⓘ Prévessin-Moëns ⓘ Saint-Genis-Pouilly ⓘ Satigny ⓘ Vernier ⓘ |
| canton |
canton of Geneva
ⓘ
surface form:
Canton of Geneva
|
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| governedBy | Municipal council of Meyrin ⓘ |
| hasClimate | temperate oceanic climate ⓘ |
| hasDialingCode | +41 ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
high-technology industry
ⓘ
scientific research ⓘ services sector ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure |
schools
ⓘ
shopping centers ⓘ sports facilities ⓘ |
| hasISO3166-2Code | CH-GE ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
CERN
ⓘ
surface form:
CERN Globe of Science and Innovation
CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities ⓘ
surface form:
CERN control centre buildings
|
| hasLandUse |
commercial centers
ⓘ
industrial zones ⓘ residential areas ⓘ |
| hasMayorTitle | Maire ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalityCode | 6630 ⓘ |
| hasPopulationCharacteristic | multicultural community ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 1217 ⓘ |
| hasTransport |
Geneva Airport vicinity
ⓘ
Railway station on Lyon–Geneva line ⓘ Tramway service from Geneva ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.meyrin.ch ⓘ |
| hosts |
CERN Large Hadron Collider surface facilities
ⓘ
CERN ⓘ
surface form:
CERN administrative headquarters
CERN ⓘ
surface form:
CERN main campus
|
| locatedIn |
canton of Geneva
ⓘ
surface form:
Canton of Geneva
Romandy ⓘ Western Switzerland ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Geneva ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
France–Switzerland border
ⓘ
surface form:
Swiss–French border
|
| nearFacility |
Geneva Airport
ⓘ
surface form:
Geneva International Airport
|
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf |
canton of Geneva
ⓘ
surface form:
District of Geneva
Geneva metropolitan area ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| usesCurrency | Swiss franc ⓘ |
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: Meyrin, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland Description of subject: Meyrin is a municipality in the Canton of Geneva in southwestern Switzerland best known for hosting the main campus of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Meyrin, Switzerland
this entity surface form:
Meyrin, Switzerland
this entity surface form:
Meyrin, Switzerland