Meilen District
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Meilen District is an administrative district in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland, located along the northeastern shore of Lake Zurich and encompassing several affluent suburban municipalities.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meilen District canonical | 5 |
| Meilen district | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8978700 — 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: Meilen District Context triple: [Küsnacht, Zürich, Switzerland, district, Meilen District]
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A.
Homoine District
Homoine District is an administrative district located in Inhambane Province in southern Mozambique.
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B.
Gäu District
Gäu District is an administrative district in the canton of Solothurn in northwestern Switzerland, known for its mix of industrial areas and agricultural landscapes along the Aare River.
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C.
Boe District
Boe District is one of the administrative districts of Nauru, located inland on the island’s southwestern side.
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D.
Bubi District
Bubi District is an administrative district in Matabeleland North Province in western Zimbabwe, known largely for its rural communities and mining activities.
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E.
Bäherden District
Bäherden District is an administrative district in Turkmenistan known for containing the famous Kow-Ata underground lake and its surrounding natural attractions.
- 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: Meilen District Target entity description: Meilen District is an administrative district in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland, located along the northeastern shore of Lake Zurich and encompassing several affluent suburban municipalities.
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A.
Homoine District
Homoine District is an administrative district located in Inhambane Province in southern Mozambique.
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B.
Gäu District
Gäu District is an administrative district in the canton of Solothurn in northwestern Switzerland, known for its mix of industrial areas and agricultural landscapes along the Aare River.
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C.
Boe District
Boe District is one of the administrative districts of Nauru, located inland on the island’s southwestern side.
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D.
Bubi District
Bubi District is an administrative district in Matabeleland North Province in western Zimbabwe, known largely for its rural communities and mining activities.
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E.
Bäherden District
Bäherden District is an administrative district in Turkmenistan known for containing the famous Kow-Ata underground lake and its surrounding natural attractions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative district
ⓘ
district of Switzerland ⓘ |
| borderedBy | Lake Zurich ⓘ |
| capital | Meilen ⓘ |
| containsAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Erlenbach
ⓘ
Herrliberg ⓘ Küsnacht ⓘ Meilen ⓘ Männedorf ⓘ Oetwil am See ⓘ Stäfa ⓘ Uetikon am See ⓘ Zollikon ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| hasReputationFor | affluent suburban municipalities ⓘ |
| languageUsed | German ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Zurich metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Greater Zürich Area
|
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
canton of Zürich
ⓘ
linked to:
Canton of Zürich
|
| locatedInContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| locatedInNorthernHemisphere | Northern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Swiss Plateau ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Lake Zurich
ⓘ
northeastern shore of Lake Zurich ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | German ⓘ |
| partOf |
canton of Zürich
ⓘ
linked to:
Canton of Zürich
|
| seat | Meilen ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf |
canton of Zürich
ⓘ
linked to:
Canton of Zürich
|
| subdivisionType | district ⓘ |
| usesTimeZone | Central European Summer Time ⓘ |
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: Meilen District Description of subject: Meilen District is an administrative district in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland, located along the northeastern shore of Lake Zurich and encompassing several affluent suburban municipalities.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Meilen District