Altdorf
E530157
Altdorf is a Swiss town in the canton of Uri, known as a historic transit point through the Alps and its association with the William Tell legend.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Altdorf canonical | 13 |
| Altdorf UR | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5526396 — 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: Altdorf Context triple: [European route E35, passesThrough, Altdorf]
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A.
Urdorf
Urdorf is a municipality in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland, located in the Limmat Valley near the city of Zurich.
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B.
Hemfurth
Hemfurth is a village in central Germany best known for its proximity to the historic Eder Dam and the Edersee reservoir.
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C.
Drensteinfurt
Drensteinfurt is a small town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, known for its historic architecture and location in the Münsterland region.
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D.
Einbeck
Einbeck is a historic town in Lower Saxony, Germany, renowned for its medieval architecture and traditional beer brewing.
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E.
Carlswald
Carlswald is a residential and commercial suburb located in the Midrand area between Johannesburg and Pretoria in South Africa.
- 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: Altdorf Target entity description: Altdorf is a Swiss town in the canton of Uri, known as a historic transit point through the Alps and its association with the William Tell legend.
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A.
Urdorf
Urdorf is a municipality in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland, located in the Limmat Valley near the city of Zurich.
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B.
Hemfurth
Hemfurth is a village in central Germany best known for its proximity to the historic Eder Dam and the Edersee reservoir.
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C.
Drensteinfurt
Drensteinfurt is a small town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, known for its historic architecture and location in the Münsterland region.
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D.
Einbeck
Einbeck is a historic town in Lower Saxony, Germany, renowned for its medieval architecture and traditional beer brewing.
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E.
Carlswald
Carlswald is a residential and commercial suburb located in the Midrand area between Johannesburg and Pretoria in South Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
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: Altdorf Description of subject: Altdorf is a Swiss town in the canton of Uri, known as a historic transit point through the Alps and its association with the William Tell legend.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Altdorf
linked to: Altdorf