Maur
E769971
Maur is a municipality in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, located on the northeastern shore of Lake Greifen and known for its residential character and natural surroundings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maur canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8978734 — 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: Maur Context triple: [Küsnacht, Zürich, Switzerland, neighboringMunicipality, Maur]
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A.
Maurin
Maurin is a French surname most notably associated with Peter Maurin, the co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.
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B.
Mau
Mau is a city in the Purvanchal region of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India, known for its textile and power-loom industry.
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C.
Murroes
Murroes is a small rural village in eastern Scotland, situated within the historic county of Angus near the city of Dundee.
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D.
Moissat
Moissat is a small commune in central France’s Puy-de-Dôme department, known for its rural character within the Auvergne region.
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E.
Marrar
Marrar is a small rural town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural community and country lifestyle.
- 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: Maur Target entity description: Maur is a municipality in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, located on the northeastern shore of Lake Greifen and known for its residential character and natural surroundings.
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A.
Maurin
Maurin is a French surname most notably associated with Peter Maurin, the co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.
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B.
Mau
Mau is a city in the Purvanchal region of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India, known for its textile and power-loom industry.
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C.
Murroes
Murroes is a small rural village in eastern Scotland, situated within the historic county of Angus near the city of Dundee.
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D.
Moissat
Moissat is a small commune in central France’s Puy-de-Dôme department, known for its rural character within the Auvergne region.
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E.
Marrar
Marrar is a small rural town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural community and country lifestyle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
political subdivision of Switzerland ⓘ populated place ⓘ |
| canton |
Zürich
ⓘ
linked to:
Zurich
|
| coatOfArms | coat of arms of Maur ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| district | Uster ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 440 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| governedBy | municipal council of Maur ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
natural surroundings
ⓘ
residential character ⓘ |
| hasLakeShore | Lake Greifen ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
natural and recreational areas
ⓘ
residential areas ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | German ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Aesch (Maur)
ⓘ
Binz ⓘ Ebmatingen ⓘ Storchenbühl ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.maur.ch ⓘ |
| locatedEastOf | city of Zürich ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Switzerland
ⓘ
canton of Zürich ⓘ
linked to:
Canton of Zürich
|
| locatedInContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Greifensee region
ⓘ
linked to:
Lake Zürich region
|
| locatedNear |
Greifensee (Lake Greifen)
ⓘ
linked to:
Greifensee (lake)
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| locatedOn | northeastern shore of Lake Greifen ⓘ |
| municipalityCode | 0196 ⓘ |
| postalCode |
8124
ⓘ
8126 ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European 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: Maur Description of subject: Maur is a municipality in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, located on the northeastern shore of Lake Greifen and known for its residential character and natural surroundings.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.