NOB
E502021
NOB is the abbreviation for the Schweizerische Nordostbahn, a former Swiss railway company that operated in northeastern Switzerland in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NOB canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5190381 — 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: NOB Context triple: [Schweizerische Nordostbahn, abbreviation, NOB]
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A.
NOH
NOH was the former abbreviation used for the New Orleans Hornets NBA franchise before it was rebranded as the New Orleans Pelicans.
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B.
NBO
NBO is the IATA airport code for Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, the main international gateway serving Nairobi, Kenya.
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C.
NOL
NOL is the Amtrak station code for New Orleans’ main intercity rail hub, the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal.
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D.
NEOB
NEOB is a U.S. federal government office building in Washington, D.C., that houses various agencies and staff of the Executive Office of the President.
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E.
Nobol
Nobol is a small town and canton in coastal Ecuador known for its religious significance as the birthplace of Saint Narcisa de Jesús.
- 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: NOB Target entity description: NOB is the abbreviation for the Schweizerische Nordostbahn, a former Swiss railway company that operated in northeastern Switzerland in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
NOH
NOH was the former abbreviation used for the New Orleans Hornets NBA franchise before it was rebranded as the New Orleans Pelicans.
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B.
NBO
NBO is the IATA airport code for Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, the main international gateway serving Nairobi, Kenya.
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C.
NOL
NOL is the Amtrak station code for New Orleans’ main intercity rail hub, the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal.
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D.
NEOB
NEOB is a U.S. federal government office building in Washington, D.C., that houses various agencies and staff of the Executive Office of the President.
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E.
Nobol
Nobol is a small town and canton in coastal Ecuador known for its religious significance as the birthplace of Saint Narcisa de Jesús.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
abbreviation
ⓘ
railway company ⓘ |
| abbreviation | NOB ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1902 ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Zurich ⓘ |
| inception | 1853 ⓘ |
| industry | rail transport ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canton of Aargau
ⓘ
Canton of Schaffhausen ⓘ
linked to:
canton of Schaffhausen
Canton of St. Gallen ⓘ Canton of Thurgau ⓘ
linked to:
canton of Thurgau
Canton of Zurich ⓘ
linked to:
Canton of Zürich
|
| mergedInto | Swiss Federal Railways ⓘ |
| operated | railway lines ⓘ |
| operatedInCentury |
19th century
ⓘ
20th century ⓘ |
| operatedInRegion | northeastern Switzerland ⓘ |
| railGauge | standard gauge ⓘ |
| serviceType |
freight rail transport
ⓘ
passenger rail transport ⓘ |
| standsFor | Schweizerische Nordostbahn ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successor | Swiss Federal Railways ⓘ |
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: NOB Description of subject: NOB is the abbreviation for the Schweizerische Nordostbahn, a former Swiss railway company that operated in northeastern Switzerland in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
NOB