Widen
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Widen is a small municipality in the canton of Aargau in northern Switzerland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Widen canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11170732 — 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: Widen Context triple: [Lutzenberg, hasSettlement, Widen]
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A.
WID
WID is the National Rail station code assigned to Widnes railway station in Cheshire, England.
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B.
Warp
Warp is a pioneering British independent record label renowned for its influential roster of experimental electronic and alternative artists.
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C.
Warp
Warp is the codename for IBM’s major OS/2 operating system releases from the mid-1990s, known for their advanced multitasking and stability features.
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D.
Waner
Waner is a surname most notably associated with Baseball Hall of Famer Paul Waner, a star outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the early 20th century.
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E.
The Wedge
The Wedge is a famous surf spot in Newport Beach, California, known for its powerful, shore-breaking waves that attract experienced bodyboarders and surfers.
- 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: Widen Target entity description: Widen is a small municipality in the canton of Aargau in northern Switzerland.
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A.
WID
WID is the National Rail station code assigned to Widnes railway station in Cheshire, England.
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B.
Warp
Warp is a pioneering British independent record label renowned for its influential roster of experimental electronic and alternative artists.
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C.
Warp
Warp is the codename for IBM’s major OS/2 operating system releases from the mid-1990s, known for their advanced multitasking and stability features.
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D.
Waner
Waner is a surname most notably associated with Baseball Hall of Famer Paul Waner, a star outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the early 20th century.
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E.
The Wedge
The Wedge is a famous surf spot in Newport Beach, California, known for its powerful, shore-breaking waves that attract experienced bodyboarders and surfers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipality ⓘ |
| canton | Aargau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cantonCode | AG ⓘ |
| coatOfArmsDescription | Gules a bend wavy argent between two mullets of six of the same ⓘ |
| commuterTownFor | Zurich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| countryCode | CH ⓘ |
| currency | Swiss franc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceToZurich | approximately 10 km southwest GENERATED ⓘ |
| elevation | about 540 m above sea level ⓘ |
| governingBody | municipal council of Widen ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Municipalities of Aargau
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Populated places on the Limmat ⓘ |
| hasClimate | temperate oceanic climate ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalityCode | 4080 ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringMunicipality |
Bellikon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bergdietikon NERFINISHED ⓘ Berikon NERFINISHED ⓘ Eggenwil NERFINISHED ⓘ Remetschwil NERFINISHED ⓘ Rudolfstetten-Friedlisberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | German ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 8967 ⓘ |
| hasRailConnection | Bremgarten–Dietikon railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettlement |
Hasenberg area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Widen (village) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.widen.ch ⓘ |
| ISO3166-2Code | CH-AG ⓘ |
| landUse |
agricultural land
ⓘ
forests ⓘ residential areas ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bremgarten planning region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
canton of Aargau NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Switzerland ⓘ |
| locatedInContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Bremgarten
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Zurich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | south side of the Limmat valley ⓘ |
| partOf | Bremgarten District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicCharacter | residential municipality ⓘ |
| region | Swiss Plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadConnection | regional roads to Zurich and Bremgarten ⓘ |
| servedBy | S17 line of the Zurich S-Bahn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
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: Widen Description of subject: Widen is a small municipality in the canton of Aargau in northern Switzerland.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.