Beek
E537822
Beek is a small municipality in the Dutch province of Limburg, known for hosting Maastricht Aachen Airport and its convenient location near the borders with Belgium and Germany.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beek canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5658926 — 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: Beek Context triple: [Maastricht Aachen Airport, locatedIn, Beek]
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A.
Zuunbeek
Zuunbeek is a small stream in Belgium that serves as a right-bank tributary of the River Dender.
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B.
Vierlingsbeek
Vierlingsbeek is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, known for its rural character and location along the river Maas.
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C.
Everbeek
Everbeek is a village in the municipality of Brakel in East Flanders, Belgium, known for its rural landscape and wooded surroundings.
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D.
Oudewater
Oudewater is a historic Dutch town in the province of Utrecht, known for its medieval architecture and its association with theologian Jacobus Arminius.
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E.
Beek en Donk
Beek en Donk is a village in the province of North Brabant in the southern Netherlands, known for its rural character and proximity to other small settlements.
- 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: Beek Target entity description: Beek is a small municipality in the Dutch province of Limburg, known for hosting Maastricht Aachen Airport and its convenient location near the borders with Belgium and Germany.
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A.
Zuunbeek
Zuunbeek is a small stream in Belgium that serves as a right-bank tributary of the River Dender.
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B.
Vierlingsbeek
Vierlingsbeek is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, known for its rural character and location along the river Maas.
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C.
Everbeek
Everbeek is a village in the municipality of Brakel in East Flanders, Belgium, known for its rural landscape and wooded surroundings.
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D.
Oudewater
Oudewater is a historic Dutch town in the province of Utrecht, known for its medieval architecture and its association with theologian Jacobus Arminius.
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E.
Beek en Donk
Beek en Donk is a village in the province of North Brabant in the southern Netherlands, known for its rural character and proximity to other small settlements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
settlement ⓘ |
| areaCode | 046 ⓘ |
| borderProximity |
Belgium
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| governmentType | municipal council ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Maastricht Aachen Airport ⓘ |
| hasAirportFunction |
cargo flights
ⓘ
regional passenger flights ⓘ |
| hasNeighbouringMunicipality |
Meerssen
ⓘ
Schinnen ⓘ Sittard-Geleen ⓘ Stein ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation | Beek-Elsloo railway station ⓘ |
| hasSettlement |
Beek (village)
ⓘ
linked to:
Beek
|
| locatedIn |
Beek
ⓘ
Dutch province of Limburg ⓘ
linked to:
Provincie Limburg
Limburg ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Aachen
ⓘ
Maastricht ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
| partOf | South Limburg ⓘ |
| postalCodeRange | 6190–6199 ⓘ |
| region | southern Netherlands ⓘ |
| roadConnection |
A2 motorway
ⓘ
A76 motorway ⓘ |
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: Beek Description of subject: Beek is a small municipality in the Dutch province of Limburg, known for hosting Maastricht Aachen Airport and its convenient location near the borders with Belgium and Germany.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.