Willich
E718624
Willich is a town in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, situated in the Lower Rhine region near the city of Krefeld.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Willich canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8200778 — 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: Willich Context triple: [Fischeln, locatedNear, Willich]
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A.
Haynrode
Haynrode is a small village in the German state of Thuringia.
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B.
Mauch
Mauch is a surname most notably borne by Corine Mauch, the long-serving mayor of Zurich, Switzerland.
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C.
Ilster
The Ilster is a small river in Lower Saxony, Germany, known as one of the headwater streams contributing to the Örtze river system.
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D.
Mosina
Mosina is an alternative name for Vurës, a language spoken on the island of Vanua Lava in Vanuatu.
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E.
Geltow
Geltow is a village in the German state of Brandenburg, known as a district of the municipality Schwielowsee near Potsdam.
- 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: Willich Target entity description: Willich is a town in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, situated in the Lower Rhine region near the city of Krefeld.
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A.
Haynrode
Haynrode is a small village in the German state of Thuringia.
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B.
Mauch
Mauch is a surname most notably borne by Corine Mauch, the long-serving mayor of Zurich, Switzerland.
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C.
Ilster
The Ilster is a small river in Lower Saxony, Germany, known as one of the headwater streams contributing to the Örtze river system.
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D.
Mosina
Mosina is an alternative name for Vurës, a language spoken on the island of Vanua Lava in Vanuatu.
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E.
Geltow
Geltow is a village in the German state of Brandenburg, known as a district of the municipality Schwielowsee near Potsdam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | town ⓘ |
| areaCode |
02154
ⓘ
02156 ⓘ 02158 ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Lower Rhine cultural region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | temperate oceanic climate ⓘ |
| coatOfArms | Coat of arms of Willich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | state of North Rhine-Westphalia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 35 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| hasCityPart |
Alt-Willich
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Anrath NERFINISHED ⓘ Neersen NERFINISHED ⓘ Schiefbahn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
light industry
ⓘ
logistics ⓘ services ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
agricultural area
ⓘ
industrial area ⓘ residential area ⓘ |
| hasMayor | Christian Pakusch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransport |
access to A44 motorway
ⓘ
access to A52 motorway ⓘ regional bus connections to Düsseldorf ⓘ regional bus connections to Krefeld ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| locatedEastOf | Mönchengladbach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lower Rhine region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Rhine-Westphalia ⓘ Western Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrative | District of Viersen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Krefeld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Niers (nearby) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedSouthOf | Krefeld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedWestOf | Düsseldorf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mayorParty | CDU NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialWebsite | https://www.stadt-willich.de ⓘ |
| partOf | Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationEstimate | over 50,000 inhabitants ⓘ |
| postalCode | 47877 ⓘ |
| regionCodeNUTS | DEA1F ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Central European Summer Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| twinTown |
Jelcz-Laskowice
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Linselles NERFINISHED ⓘ Marom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vehicleRegistrationCode | VIE NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Willich Description of subject: Willich is a town in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, situated in the Lower Rhine region near the city of Krefeld.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.