Meyrin
E47537
Meyrin is a municipality in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, best known for hosting major CERN facilities including the Super Proton Synchrotron.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meyrin canonical | 48 |
| Meyrin, Switzerland | 11 |
| Meyrin site | 2 |
| Meyrin depot | 1 |
| Meyrin municipality | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T192197 — 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 Context triple: [Super Proton Synchrotron, locatedIn, Meyrin]
-
A.
Chamonix
Chamonix is a renowned French alpine town and ski resort in the Haute-Savoie region, famous for its dramatic mountain scenery and mountaineering history.
-
B.
Satigny
Satigny is a Swiss municipality in the canton of Geneva, known for being one of the country’s largest wine-producing communes.
-
C.
Mossenberg-Wöhren
Mossenberg-Wöhren is a small village in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, known primarily as the birthplace of former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
-
D.
Clarens, Switzerland
Clarens, Switzerland is a picturesque lakeside resort village on Lake Geneva, known for its scenic views of the Alps and its association with notable historical figures.
-
E.
Cernobbio
Cernobbio is a picturesque town in northern Italy known for its lakeside villas and scenic location on the shores of Lake Como.
- 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 Target entity description: Meyrin is a municipality in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, best known for hosting major CERN facilities including the Super Proton Synchrotron.
-
A.
Chamonix
Chamonix is a renowned French alpine town and ski resort in the Haute-Savoie region, famous for its dramatic mountain scenery and mountaineering history.
-
B.
Satigny
Satigny is a Swiss municipality in the canton of Geneva, known for being one of the country’s largest wine-producing communes.
-
C.
Mossenberg-Wöhren
Mossenberg-Wöhren is a small village in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, known primarily as the birthplace of former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
-
D.
Clarens, Switzerland
Clarens, Switzerland is a picturesque lakeside resort village on Lake Geneva, known for its scenic views of the Alps and its association with notable historical figures.
-
E.
Cernobbio
Cernobbio is a picturesque town in northern Italy known for its lakeside villas and scenic location on the shores of Lake Como.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commune of Switzerland
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| appliesLaw |
cantonal law of Geneva
ⓘ
federal law of Switzerland ⓘ |
| borders |
Collex-Bossy
ⓘ
Ferney-Voltaire ⓘ Pregny-Chambésy ⓘ Prévessin-Moëns ⓘ Saint-Genis-Pouilly ⓘ Satigny ⓘ Vernier ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| hasClimate | temperate climate ⓘ |
| hasDialingCode | +41 ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
high-technology industry
ⓘ
scientific research ⓘ services sector ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | Swiss municipal government ⓘ |
| hasISO3166-2Code | CH-GE ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
commercial zone
ⓘ
industrial zone ⓘ residential area ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
presence of major particle physics facilities
ⓘ
proximity to French border ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 1217 ⓘ |
| hasTransportInfrastructure |
Geneva Airport
ⓘ
surface form:
Geneva Airport vicinity
Railway station ⓘ Tramway service from Geneva ⓘ |
| hosts |
CERN
ⓘ
CERN Prevessin–Meyrin site ⓘ
surface form:
CERN Meyrin site
CERN control centre ⓘ CERN data centre ⓘ CERN Prevessin–Meyrin site ⓘ
surface form:
CERN main administrative campus
CERN visitor centre ⓘ Large Hadron Collider surface facilities ⓘ Super Proton Synchrotron ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Geneva metropolitan area
ⓘ
canton of Geneva ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Romandy ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear | city of Geneva ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf |
canton of Geneva
ⓘ
surface form:
Republic and Canton of Geneva
|
| usesUTCOffset | +01:00 ⓘ |
| usesUTCOffsetDST | +02:00 ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Meyrin is a municipality in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, best known for hosting major CERN facilities including the Super Proton Synchrotron.
Referenced by (63)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Meyrin, Switzerland
subject surface form:
Super Proton Synchrotron
this entity surface form:
Meyrin, Switzerland
this entity surface form:
Meyrin, Switzerland
this entity surface form:
Meyrin, Switzerland
this entity surface form:
Meyrin depot
this entity surface form:
Meyrin, Switzerland
this entity surface form:
Meyrin site
this entity surface form:
Meyrin, Switzerland
this entity surface form:
Meyrin municipality