Uppsala
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Uppsala is a historic Swedish city north of Stockholm, known for its prestigious university, medieval cathedral, and role as a cultural and ecclesiastical center.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Uppsala canonical | 128 |
| Uppsala Municipality | 17 |
| Uppsala, Sweden | 12 |
| Uppsala urban area | 3 |
| Gamla Uppsala | 1 |
| Uppsala city centre | 1 |
| Uppsala city landscape | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T279696 — 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: Uppsala Context triple: [Malena Ernman, placeOfBirth, Uppsala]
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A.
Gothenburg
Gothenburg is Sweden’s second-largest city, a major port on the country’s west coast known for its maritime heritage, universities, and vibrant cultural scene.
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B.
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital city of Sweden, renowned for its historic architecture, cultural institutions, and role as a major political, economic, and scientific center in Scandinavia.
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C.
Trollhättan
Trollhättan is a city in western Sweden known for its historic role in the automotive industry and as the longtime home of Saab Automobile’s main production facilities.
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D.
Solna Municipality
Solna Municipality is an urban municipality in the Stockholm metropolitan area of Sweden, known for hosting major institutions such as Friends Arena and the Karolinska Institute.
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E.
Ekerö Municipality
Ekerö Municipality is a suburban island municipality in eastern Sweden known for its natural landscapes and historic sites, located just west of central Stockholm.
- 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: Uppsala Target entity description: Uppsala is a historic Swedish city north of Stockholm, known for its prestigious university, medieval cathedral, and role as a cultural and ecclesiastical center.
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A.
Gothenburg
Gothenburg is Sweden’s second-largest city, a major port on the country’s west coast known for its maritime heritage, universities, and vibrant cultural scene.
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B.
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital city of Sweden, renowned for its historic architecture, cultural institutions, and role as a major political, economic, and scientific center in Scandinavia.
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C.
Trollhättan
Trollhättan is a city in western Sweden known for its historic role in the automotive industry and as the longtime home of Saab Automobile’s main production facilities.
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D.
Solna Municipality
Solna Municipality is an urban municipality in the Stockholm metropolitan area of Sweden, known for hosting major institutions such as Friends Arena and the Karolinska Institute.
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E.
Ekerö Municipality
Ekerö Municipality is a suburban island municipality in eastern Sweden known for its natural landscapes and historic sites, located just west of central Stockholm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Uppsala Description of subject: Uppsala is a historic Swedish city north of Stockholm, known for its prestigious university, medieval cathedral, and role as a cultural and ecclesiastical center.
Referenced by (163)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Uppsala, Sweden
this entity surface form:
Uppsala Municipality
this entity surface form:
Uppsala Municipality
this entity surface form:
Uppsala Municipality
this entity surface form:
Gamla Uppsala
this entity surface form:
Uppsala, Sweden
this entity surface form:
Uppsala, Sweden
subject surface form:
Eastern Sweden
this entity surface form:
Uppsala, Sweden
this entity surface form:
Uppsala Municipality
this entity surface form:
Uppsala city centre