Windisch
E725490
Windisch is a municipality in the canton of Aargau in northern Switzerland, known for encompassing the site of the former Roman legionary camp of Vindonissa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Windisch canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8313039 — 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: Windisch Context triple: [Vindonissa, locatedInPresentDay, Windisch]
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A.
Brieg
Brieg is a historic town in southwestern Poland, known today as Brzeg, that was formerly part of Germany’s Silesia region.
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B.
Weidenau
Weidenau is a district of the city of Siegen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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C.
Ochsenfeld
Ochsenfeld is a German surname most notably borne by physicist Robert Ochsenfeld, known for his work on superconductivity.
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D.
Haslach
Haslach is a district or locality that forms part of the town of Oberkirch in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
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E.
Tussenhausen
Tussenhausen is a municipality in the district of Unterallgäu in Bavaria, Germany, known for its rural character and small villages such as Mattsies.
- 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: Windisch Target entity description: Windisch is a municipality in the canton of Aargau in northern Switzerland, known for encompassing the site of the former Roman legionary camp of Vindonissa.
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A.
Brieg
Brieg is a historic town in southwestern Poland, known today as Brzeg, that was formerly part of Germany’s Silesia region.
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B.
Weidenau
Weidenau is a district of the city of Siegen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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C.
Ochsenfeld
Ochsenfeld is a German surname most notably borne by physicist Robert Ochsenfeld, known for his work on superconductivity.
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D.
Haslach
Haslach is a district or locality that forms part of the town of Oberkirch in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
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E.
Tussenhausen
Tussenhausen is a municipality in the district of Unterallgäu in Bavaria, Germany, known for its rural character and small villages such as Mattsies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipality of Switzerland ⓘ |
| adjacentMunicipality |
Birr
ⓘ
Brugg ⓘ Gebenstorf ⓘ Hausen bei Brugg ⓘ
linked to:
Hausen (Aargau)
Mülligen ⓘ |
| canton | Aargau ⓘ |
| contains | site of the former Roman legionary camp of Vindonissa ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 360 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland campus ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | part of Vindonissa is a Swiss heritage site of national significance ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSite |
Roman amphitheatre of Vindonissa
ⓘ
Vindonissa Museum ⓘ |
| hasPopulation | over 7000 inhabitants ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation | Windisch railway station ⓘ |
| heritage |
Roman archaeological site Vindonissa
ⓘ
linked to:
Vindonissa
|
| locatedIn | northern Switzerland ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | district of Brugg ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Swiss Plateau ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
city of Baden, Aargau
ⓘ
linked to:
Baden, Switzerland
city of Zurich ⓘ
linked to:
Zurich
confluence of the Aare and Reuss rivers ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterbody |
Aare River
ⓘ
linked to:
Aare
|
| officialLanguage | German ⓘ |
| postalCode | 5210 ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| usesMunicipalCode | 4123 ⓘ |
| vehicleRegistrationCode | AG ⓘ |
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: Windisch Description of subject: Windisch is a municipality in the canton of Aargau in northern Switzerland, known for encompassing the site of the former Roman legionary camp of Vindonissa.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Germania Superior
subject linked to:
Roman province of Germania Superior
subject linked to:
Upper Germany