Švihov
E471492
Švihov is a small town in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic, known for its well-preserved water castle and its location on the Úhlava River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Švihov canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4797640 — 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: Švihov Context triple: [Úhlava, flowsThrough, Švihov]
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A.
Osek
Osek is a town in the Czech Republic historically associated with the family origins of writer Franz Kafka’s father, Hermann Kafka.
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B.
Svatava
Svatava is a river in Central Europe that flows through parts of Germany and the Czech Republic before joining the Ohře River.
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C.
Svitavy
Svitavy is a town in the Czech Republic best known as the birthplace of Oskar Schindler, the industrialist who saved hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust.
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D.
Šamorín
Šamorín is a small town in southwestern Slovakia known for its equestrian sports complex, proximity to the Danube River, and growing role as a suburban area near Bratislava.
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E.
Slaný
Slaný is a historic town in the Czech Republic known for its medieval center and location northwest of Prague.
- 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: Švihov Target entity description: Švihov is a small town in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic, known for its well-preserved water castle and its location on the Úhlava River.
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A.
Osek
Osek is a town in the Czech Republic historically associated with the family origins of writer Franz Kafka’s father, Hermann Kafka.
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B.
Svatava
Svatava is a river in Central Europe that flows through parts of Germany and the Czech Republic before joining the Ohře River.
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C.
Svitavy
Svitavy is a town in the Czech Republic best known as the birthplace of Oskar Schindler, the industrialist who saved hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust.
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D.
Šamorín
Šamorín is a small town in southwestern Slovakia known for its equestrian sports complex, proximity to the Danube River, and growing role as a suburban area near Bratislava.
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E.
Slaný
Slaný is a historic town in the Czech Republic known for its medieval center and location northwest of Prague.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| administrativeUnitOf | Klatovy District ⓘ |
| country | Czech Republic ⓘ |
| governmentType | municipality with town status ⓘ |
| hasBuilding | parish church ⓘ |
| hasCastleType | water castle ⓘ |
| hasFeature | historic town centre ⓘ |
| hasHeritageSite | Švihov Castle ⓘ |
| hasHistoricRegion |
Western Bohemia
ⓘ
linked to:
West Bohemia
|
| hasLandmark | Švihov Castle ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity | Plzeň ⓘ |
| hasNearbyTown | Klatovy ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 340 12 ⓘ |
| hasProtectedMonument | Švihov Castle ⓘ |
| hasRegionCapital | Plzeň ⓘ |
| hasRiver | Úhlava River ⓘ |
| hasTransport | railway station ⓘ |
| knownFor |
well-preserved water castle
ⓘ
Švihov Castle ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Czech ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Klatovy District
ⓘ
Plzeň Region ⓘ |
| locatedInContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Úhlava River ⓘ |
| partOf | Bohemia ⓘ |
| roadConnection | regional roads in Plzeň Region ⓘ |
| timeZone | CET ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CEST ⓘ |
| usesCurrency | Czech koruna ⓘ |
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: Švihov Description of subject: Švihov is a small town in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic, known for its well-preserved water castle and its location on the Úhlava River.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.