Broye
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Broye is a river in western Switzerland that flows through the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud before emptying into Lake Neuchâtel.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Broye canonical | 9 |
| Broye River | 6 |
| Broye valley | 3 |
| Broye basin | 2 |
| Broye (French) | 1 |
| Broye Canal | 1 |
| Broye plain | 1 |
| Broyetal (Broye Valley) | 1 |
| La Sarine | 1 |
| river Broye | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T401367 — 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: Broye Context triple: [Lake Neuchâtel, inflow, Broye]
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A.
Morges River
The Morges River is a small river in western Switzerland that drains into Lake Geneva near the town of Morges.
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B.
Jura
Jura is a predominantly French-speaking canton in northwestern Switzerland known for its Jura Mountains, watchmaking tradition, and strong regional identity.
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C.
Jura
Jura is a remote, sparsely populated island in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, known for its rugged mountains, large red deer population, and the Jura whisky distillery.
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D.
Ouvèze River
The Ouvèze River is a river in southeastern France that flows through the Drôme and Vaucluse departments before joining the Rhône.
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E.
Isère River
The Isère River is a significant waterway in southeastern France that flows through the Alps and the city of Grenoble before joining the Rhône.
- 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: Broye Target entity description: Broye is a river in western Switzerland that flows through the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud before emptying into Lake Neuchâtel.
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A.
Morges River
The Morges River is a small river in western Switzerland that drains into Lake Geneva near the town of Morges.
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B.
Jura
Jura is a predominantly French-speaking canton in northwestern Switzerland known for its Jura Mountains, watchmaking tradition, and strong regional identity.
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C.
Jura
Jura is a remote, sparsely populated island in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, known for its rugged mountains, large red deer population, and the Jura whisky distillery.
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D.
Ouvèze River
The Ouvèze River is a river in southeastern France that flows through the Drôme and Vaucluse departments before joining the Rhône.
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E.
Isère River
The Isère River is a significant waterway in southeastern France that flows through the Alps and the city of Grenoble before joining the Rhône.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | river ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Switzerland ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| crossesMunicipality |
Moudon
ⓘ
Payerne ⓘ |
| drainageBasin |
Lake Neuchâtel
ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Neuchâtel basin
|
| emptiesInto | Lake Neuchâtel ⓘ |
| flowsDirection | generally northward ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Lake Neuchâtel ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
canton of Fribourg
ⓘ
Canton of Vaud ⓘ
surface form:
canton of Vaud
|
| hasNameInLanguage |
Broye
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Broye (French)
|
| hasTributary |
Arbogne
ⓘ
Glâne ⓘ |
| length | approximately 68 km ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Romandy
ⓘ
Swiss Plateau ⓘ Western Switzerland ⓘ
surface form:
western Switzerland
|
| mouth | Lake Neuchâtel ⓘ |
| partOfRiverSystem |
Rhine
ⓘ
surface form:
Rhine basin
|
| region |
canton of Fribourg
ⓘ
surface form:
Canton of Fribourg
Canton of Vaud ⓘ |
| sourceCountry | Switzerland ⓘ |
| sourceLocation | Swiss Plateau ⓘ |
| usedFor |
irrigation
ⓘ
recreation ⓘ |
| waterbodyType | freshwater river ⓘ |
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: Broye Description of subject: Broye is a river in western Switzerland that flows through the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud before emptying into Lake Neuchâtel.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Broye River
this entity surface form:
Broye (French)
this entity surface form:
Broye River
this entity surface form:
Broye basin
this entity surface form:
Broye Canal
this entity surface form:
Broye River
this entity surface form:
Broyetal (Broye Valley)
this entity surface form:
La Sarine
this entity surface form:
Broye valley
this entity surface form:
Broye River
subject surface form:
Murtensee
this entity surface form:
Broye plain
this entity surface form:
Broye valley
this entity surface form:
Broye River
this entity surface form:
Broye valley