Horw
E840484
Horw is a municipality in the canton of Lucerne in central Switzerland, located on the shores of Lake Lucerne and known for its proximity to the city of Lucerne and its educational institutions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Horw canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10080868 — 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: Horw Context triple: [Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, cityCampus, Horw]
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A.
Hof
Hof is a town in northeastern Bavaria, Germany, known for its location near the Czech border and its regional cultural and economic significance.
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B.
Horrem
Horrem is a district of the town of Kerpen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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C.
Wilhering
Wilhering is a municipality in Upper Austria, known for the historic Wilhering Abbey and its location near the city of Linz.
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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.
Haslach
Haslach is a town in southern Germany historically noted as the site of the Battle of Haslach-Jungingen during the Napoleonic 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: Horw Target entity description: Horw is a municipality in the canton of Lucerne in central Switzerland, located on the shores of Lake Lucerne and known for its proximity to the city of Lucerne and its educational institutions.
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A.
Hof
Hof is a town in northeastern Bavaria, Germany, known for its location near the Czech border and its regional cultural and economic significance.
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B.
Horrem
Horrem is a district of the town of Kerpen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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C.
Wilhering
Wilhering is a municipality in Upper Austria, known for the historic Wilhering Abbey and its location near the city of Linz.
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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.
Haslach
Haslach is a town in southern Germany historically noted as the site of the Battle of Haslach-Jungingen during the Napoleonic Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipality ⓘ |
| belongsToRegion | Lucerne agglomeration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canton | Canton of Lucerne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coatOfArmsDescription | Per fess argent and gules overall a cross counterchanged ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| district | Lucerne-Land District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation | 444 m ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution |
Lucerne School of Engineering and Architecture
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLakeShore | Lake Lucerne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
agricultural land
ⓘ
forested land ⓘ settlement area ⓘ water area ⓘ |
| hasLocality |
Ebni
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Felmis NERFINISHED ⓘ Halten NERFINISHED ⓘ Hofmatt NERFINISHED ⓘ Honegg NERFINISHED ⓘ Horw (village) NERFINISHED ⓘ Kastanienbaum NERFINISHED ⓘ Spissen NERFINISHED ⓘ Stutz NERFINISHED ⓘ Wegscheide NERFINISHED ⓘ Winkel NERFINISHED ⓘ Zentrum ⓘ Zimmeregg NERFINISHED ⓘ Zingel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMountain | Mount Pilatus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation |
Horw Allmend/Messe railway station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Horw railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ Kastanienbaum railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportConnection | Lucerne S-Bahn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isoCodeRegion | CH-LU ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Central Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Lucerne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Lake Lucerne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| municipalityCode | 1061 ⓘ |
| neighboringMunicipality |
Adligenswil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hergiswil (NW) NERFINISHED ⓘ Kriens NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucerne NERFINISHED ⓘ Meggen NERFINISHED ⓘ Stansstad (NW) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | German ⓘ |
| postalCode | 6048 ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Central European Summer Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.horw.ch ⓘ |
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: Horw Description of subject: Horw is a municipality in the canton of Lucerne in central Switzerland, located on the shores of Lake Lucerne and known for its proximity to the city of Lucerne and its educational institutions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.