Old Swiss Confederacy
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The Old Swiss Confederacy was a loose alliance of autonomous cantons in Central Europe that formed the precursor to the modern Swiss state and existed from the late Middle Ages until its reorganization in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T330474 — 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: Old Swiss Confederacy Context triple: [Treaty of Baden (1714), signedInCountry, Old Swiss Confederacy]
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Confederation of the Rhine
The Confederation of the Rhine was a coalition of German states formed under the influence of Napoleon Bonaparte that replaced the Holy Roman Empire and served as a French client alliance in early 19th-century Central Europe.
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Benedictine Confederation
The Benedictine Confederation is the international union that loosely links together the autonomous Benedictine monasteries and congregations worldwide under a common spiritual and organizational framework.
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Holy Alliance
The Holy Alliance was a coalition of major European monarchies formed after the Napoleonic Wars to preserve conservative order and suppress revolutionary movements across the continent.
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League of Augsburg
The League of Augsburg, also known as the Grand Alliance, was a late 17th-century coalition of European powers formed to oppose the expansionist policies of Louis XIV’s France.
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Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire was a multi-ethnic complex of territories in Central Europe that existed from the early Middle Ages until 1806, centered on the German lands and ruled by an emperor who claimed a continuation of the legacy of the ancient Roman Empire.
- 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: Old Swiss Confederacy Target entity description: The Old Swiss Confederacy was a loose alliance of autonomous cantons in Central Europe that formed the precursor to the modern Swiss state and existed from the late Middle Ages until its reorganization in the early 19th century.
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A.
Confederation of the Rhine
The Confederation of the Rhine was a coalition of German states formed under the influence of Napoleon Bonaparte that replaced the Holy Roman Empire and served as a French client alliance in early 19th-century Central Europe.
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B.
Benedictine Confederation
The Benedictine Confederation is the international union that loosely links together the autonomous Benedictine monasteries and congregations worldwide under a common spiritual and organizational framework.
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C.
Holy Alliance
The Holy Alliance was a coalition of major European monarchies formed after the Napoleonic Wars to preserve conservative order and suppress revolutionary movements across the continent.
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D.
League of Augsburg
The League of Augsburg, also known as the Grand Alliance, was a late 17th-century coalition of European powers formed to oppose the expansionist policies of Louis XIV’s France.
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E.
Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire was a multi-ethnic complex of territories in Central Europe that existed from the early Middle Ages until 1806, centered on the German lands and ruled by an emperor who claimed a continuation of the legacy of the ancient Roman Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Old Swiss Confederacy Description of subject: The Old Swiss Confederacy was a loose alliance of autonomous cantons in Central Europe that formed the precursor to the modern Swiss state and existed from the late Middle Ages until its reorganization in the early 19th century.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Swiss Confederacy
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Swiss Confederacy
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Swiss Confederacy
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Swiss Confederacy
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Swiss Confederacy
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Swiss Confederacy
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Swiss Confederacy
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Old Swiss Confederacy (in personal union periods)
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Swiss Confederacy
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Swiss Confederacy
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Battle of Kappel (1531)
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Protestant cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy
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Catholic cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy
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Eidgenossenschaft
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Swiss Confederacy
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Swiss Confederacy
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Huldrych Zwingli
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Huldrych Zwingli
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Huldrych Zwingli
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Swiss Confederacy
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Swiss Confederacy
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Swiss Confederacy
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Swiss Confederacy
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Swiss Confederacy
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Swiss Confederacy
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Swiss Confederacy
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Old Swiss Confederacy (as associate)
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Swiss Reformation
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Zurich
this entity surface form:
Swiss Confederacy
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Swiss Confederacy