La Tène
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La Tène is an archaeological site on the northern shore of Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland that gave its name to the later Iron Age Celtic culture known for its distinctive art and metalwork.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Tène canonical | 4 |
| La Tène art | 1 |
| commune of La Tène | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6396009 — 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: La Tène Context triple: [La Tène culture, namedAfter, La Tène]
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A.
La Tène culture
La Tène culture was an Iron Age Celtic archaeological culture in Europe, noted for its distinctive art, metalwork, and influence across much of the continent before the Roman conquest.
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B.
Baeterrae
Baeterrae was an important Roman city in the province of Gallia Narbonensis, located in what is now southern France.
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C.
Bituriges Vivisci
The Bituriges Vivisci were an ancient Celtic tribe of southwestern Gaul, known as the inhabitants of the region around present-day Bordeaux before Roman rule.
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D.
Dacia Ripensis
Dacia Ripensis was a late Roman province along the Danube frontier in the Balkans, known as a militarized border region of the empire.
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E.
Sequani
The Sequani were a Celtic tribe of eastern Gaul, centered around the upper Saône and Doubs rivers, known for their involvement in Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars.
- 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: La Tène Target entity description: La Tène is an archaeological site on the northern shore of Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland that gave its name to the later Iron Age Celtic culture known for its distinctive art and metalwork.
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A.
La Tène culture
La Tène culture was an Iron Age Celtic archaeological culture in Europe, noted for its distinctive art, metalwork, and influence across much of the continent before the Roman conquest.
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B.
Baeterrae
Baeterrae was an important Roman city in the province of Gallia Narbonensis, located in what is now southern France.
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C.
Bituriges Vivisci
The Bituriges Vivisci were an ancient Celtic tribe of southwestern Gaul, known as the inhabitants of the region around present-day Bordeaux before Roman rule.
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D.
Dacia Ripensis
Dacia Ripensis was a late Roman province along the Danube frontier in the Balkans, known as a militarized border region of the empire.
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E.
Sequani
The Sequani were a Celtic tribe of eastern Gaul, centered around the upper Saône and Doubs rivers, known for their involvement in Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iron Age site
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archaeological site ⓘ |
| artStyle |
abstract vegetal motifs
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complex metal inlay ⓘ curvilinear ornament ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Celts
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linked to:
Celtic tribes
|
| chronologicalRange | approximately 5th century BC to 1st century BC ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| culturePeriod |
La Tène culture
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later Iron Age ⓘ |
| discoveredInPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| environment |
former lakeside zone
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marshy shoreline ⓘ |
| excavationType | wetland archaeology ⓘ |
| gaveNameTo | La Tène culture ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalFind |
animal bones
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fibulae ⓘ horse gear ⓘ human bones ⓘ jewellery ⓘ shields ⓘ swords ⓘ tools ⓘ weapons ⓘ wooden remains ⓘ |
| hasMaterial |
antler
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bone ⓘ bronze ⓘ coral ⓘ glass ⓘ gold ⓘ iron ⓘ wood ⓘ |
| hasSignificance |
key reference for European Iron Age chronology
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type-site of La Tène culture ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | cultural property of national significance in Switzerland ⓘ |
| inferredFunction |
possible bridge or causeway context
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possible ritual site ⓘ possible weapons deposit ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Celtic Iron Age remains
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metalwork finds ⓘ ornamental art ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
La Tène municipality
ⓘ
canton of Neuchâtel ⓘ
linked to:
Canton of Neuchâtel
|
| locatedNear | Lake Neuchâtel ⓘ |
| locatedOn | northern shore of Lake Neuchâtel ⓘ |
| namedAfter | La Tène culture ⓘ |
| partOf |
European Iron Age archaeological heritage
ⓘ
Swiss Plateau ⓘ |
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: La Tène Description of subject: La Tène is an archaeological site on the northern shore of Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland that gave its name to the later Iron Age Celtic culture known for its distinctive art and metalwork.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: La Tène
linked to: La Tène