Zaventem
E192168
Zaventem is a municipality in the Flemish Brabant province of Belgium, best known internationally as the site of Brussels Airport.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zaventem canonical | 29 |
| Zaventem (town) | 3 |
| Zaventem (in Brussels metropolitan area) | 1 |
| Zaventem, Belgium | 1 |
| Zaventemnaar | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1702487 — 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: Zaventem Context triple: [Brussels Airport, locatedIn, Zaventem]
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A.
Brussels Airport
Brussels Airport is the main international airport serving Brussels and one of Belgium’s busiest air transport hubs for passengers and cargo.
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B.
Brussels South Charleroi Airport
Brussels South Charleroi Airport is a major low-cost international airport in Belgium, widely used by budget airlines and serving as an alternative to Brussels Airport.
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C.
Antwerp International Airport
Antwerp International Airport is a small regional airport in Antwerp, Belgium, primarily serving short-haul European flights and general aviation.
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D.
Laeken
Laeken is a residential district in the north of Brussels, Belgium, known for its royal palace, extensive parks, and role as the traditional home of the Belgian monarchy.
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E.
Ixelles
Ixelles is a vibrant, multicultural municipality of the Brussels-Capital Region in Belgium, known for its Art Nouveau architecture, lively student population, and cultural institutions.
- 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: Zaventem Target entity description: Zaventem is a municipality in the Flemish Brabant province of Belgium, best known internationally as the site of Brussels Airport.
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A.
Brussels Airport
Brussels Airport is the main international airport serving Brussels and one of Belgium’s busiest air transport hubs for passengers and cargo.
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B.
Brussels South Charleroi Airport
Brussels South Charleroi Airport is a major low-cost international airport in Belgium, widely used by budget airlines and serving as an alternative to Brussels Airport.
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C.
Antwerp International Airport
Antwerp International Airport is a small regional airport in Antwerp, Belgium, primarily serving short-haul European flights and general aviation.
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D.
Laeken
Laeken is a residential district in the north of Brussels, Belgium, known for its royal palace, extensive parks, and role as the traditional home of the Belgian monarchy.
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E.
Ixelles
Ixelles is a vibrant, multicultural municipality of the Brussels-Capital Region in Belgium, known for its Art Nouveau architecture, lively student population, and cultural institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Zaventem Description of subject: Zaventem is a municipality in the Flemish Brabant province of Belgium, best known internationally as the site of Brussels Airport.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Zaventem
linked to: Zaventem
linked to: Zaventem
subject linked to:
municipality of Evere
linked to: Zaventem
linked to: Zaventem
linked to: Zaventem