Waterloo
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Waterloo was the original name of the settlement that later became the city of Austin, the capital of Texas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waterloo canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4854385 — 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: Waterloo Context triple: [Austin, Texas, United States, foundedAs, Waterloo]
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A.
Waterloo
Waterloo is a mid-sized Canadian city in southwestern Ontario known for its universities, tech industry, and role within the Kitchener–Waterloo metropolitan area.
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B.
Waterloo
Waterloo is a major district in central London known for its busy railway station, cultural venues like the Southbank Centre, and proximity to landmarks such as the London Eye and the River Thames.
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C.
Waterloo
Waterloo is a town in present-day Belgium best known as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s decisive defeat in 1815, which ended the Napoleonic Wars and reshaped European politics.
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D.
Waterloo
Waterloo is a coastal town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, known for its stretch of beach and proximity to Liverpool.
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E.
Waterloo, Belgium
Waterloo, Belgium is a town in Walloon Brabant best known as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s decisive defeat in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
- 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: Waterloo Target entity description: Waterloo was the original name of the settlement that later became the city of Austin, the capital of Texas.
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A.
Waterloo
Waterloo is a town in present-day Belgium best known as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s decisive defeat in 1815, which ended the Napoleonic Wars and reshaped European politics.
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B.
Waterloo
Waterloo is a mid-sized Canadian city in southwestern Ontario known for its universities, tech industry, and role within the Kitchener–Waterloo metropolitan area.
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C.
Waterloo
Waterloo is a major district in central London known for its busy railway station, cultural venues like the Southbank Centre, and proximity to landmarks such as the London Eye and the River Thames.
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D.
Waterloo
Waterloo is a coastal town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, known for its stretch of beach and proximity to Liverpool.
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E.
Waterloo, Belgium
Waterloo, Belgium is a town in Walloon Brabant best known as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s decisive defeat in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former settlement
ⓘ
historic place ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Republic of Texas ⓘ |
| countryAtTime | Republic of Texas ⓘ |
| currentSiteWithin |
Austin, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
City of Austin
|
| dateRenamed | 1839 ⓘ |
| foundedInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| foundedInDecade | 1830s ⓘ |
| functionedAs | temporary capital ⓘ |
| historicalRole | early Anglo-American settlement on the Colorado River ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Republic of Texas
ⓘ
Texas ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Colorado River (Texas) ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Battle of Waterloo ⓘ |
| near | present-day downtown Austin ⓘ |
| originalNameOf |
Austin, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
City of Austin
|
| partOf | Travis County, Texas ⓘ |
| predecessorOf |
Austin, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
City of Austin
|
| region |
Central Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
central Texas
|
| selectedAsCapitalBy |
Republic of Texas Congress
ⓘ
linked to:
Congress of the Republic of Texas
|
| settlementType | village ⓘ |
| status | defunct settlement ⓘ |
| successorSettlement | City of Austin ⓘ |
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: Waterloo Description of subject: Waterloo was the original name of the settlement that later became the city of Austin, the capital of Texas.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.