Kappel am Albis
E51984
Kappel am Albis is a municipality in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, historically known as the site of the 1531 Battle of Kappel where reformer Huldrych Zwingli was killed.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kappel am Albis canonical | 10 |
| Kappel am Albis (German) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T410512 — 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: Kappel am Albis Context triple: [Huldrych Zwingli, deathPlace, Kappel am Albis]
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A.
Mossenberg-Wöhren
Mossenberg-Wöhren is a small village in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, known primarily as the birthplace of former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
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B.
Basel-Landschaft
Basel-Landschaft is a canton in northwestern Switzerland known for its proximity to Basel and its mix of industrial centers, suburban communities, and rural landscapes.
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C.
Erzhausen
Erzhausen is a small municipality in the state of Hesse in central Germany, located near Darmstadt and part of the Rhine-Main metropolitan region.
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D.
Meyrin
Meyrin is a municipality in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, best known for hosting major CERN facilities including the Super Proton Synchrotron.
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E.
Heidenheim an der Brenz
Heidenheim an der Brenz is a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg known for its industrial heritage, historic castle Hellenstein, and location on the Brenz River near the Swabian Jura.
- 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: Kappel am Albis Target entity description: Kappel am Albis is a municipality in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, historically known as the site of the 1531 Battle of Kappel where reformer Huldrych Zwingli was killed.
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A.
Mossenberg-Wöhren
Mossenberg-Wöhren is a small village in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, known primarily as the birthplace of former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
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B.
Basel-Landschaft
Basel-Landschaft is a canton in northwestern Switzerland known for its proximity to Basel and its mix of industrial centers, suburban communities, and rural landscapes.
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C.
Erzhausen
Erzhausen is a small municipality in the state of Hesse in central Germany, located near Darmstadt and part of the Rhine-Main metropolitan region.
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D.
Meyrin
Meyrin is a municipality in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, best known for hosting major CERN facilities including the Super Proton Synchrotron.
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E.
Heidenheim an der Brenz
Heidenheim an der Brenz is a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg known for its industrial heritage, historic castle Hellenstein, and location on the Brenz River near the Swabian Jura.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Swiss reformer
ⓘ
battle ⓘ municipality ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 47.23°N 8.52°E (approximate) ⓘ |
| country |
Old Swiss Confederacy
ⓘ
Switzerland ⓘ |
| hasCasualty | Huldrych Zwingli ⓘ |
| hasHeritageDesignation | site of the Battle of Kappel (1531) ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalEvent |
Second War of Kappel
ⓘ
surface form:
Battle of Kappel (1531)
|
| hasMunicipalStatus | political municipality of Switzerland ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage |
Kappel am Albis
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Kappel am Albis (German)
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| hasSettlementType | rural municipality ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kappel am Albis
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
Swiss plateau region ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Canton of Zürich
ⓘ
surface form:
canton of Zürich
Affoltern ⓘ
surface form:
district of Affoltern
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| locatedInOrOn |
Jura Mountains
ⓘ
surface form:
Albis hills
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| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | German ⓘ |
| partOf |
Affoltern
ⓘ
surface form:
Affoltern am Albis region
Canton of Zürich ⓘ
surface form:
canton of Zürich
|
| placeOfDeath | Kappel am Albis self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| pointInTime | 1531 ⓘ |
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: Kappel am Albis Description of subject: Kappel am Albis is a municipality in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, historically known as the site of the 1531 Battle of Kappel where reformer Huldrych Zwingli was killed.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Battle of Kappel (1531)
subject surface form:
Huldrych Zwingli
this entity surface form:
Kappel am Albis (German)