Richterswil
E202600
Richterswil is a picturesque municipality on the shores of Lake Zurich in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richterswil canonical | 36 |
| Männedorf | 1 |
| Richterswil ferry pier | 1 |
| Richterswil village | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1009551 — 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: Richterswil Context triple: [Charles Munch, deathPlace, Richterswil]
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A.
Schaffhausen
Schaffhausen is a historic town and capital of the canton of the same name in northern Switzerland, known for its well-preserved medieval old town and proximity to the Rhine Falls.
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B.
Solothurn
Solothurn is a canton in northwestern Switzerland known for its historic baroque town of the same name and its location along the Aare River.
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C.
Vallorbe
Vallorbe is a Swiss municipality in the canton of Vaud, known for its location near the French border and its notable karst caves and natural landscapes.
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D.
Yverdon-les-Bains
Yverdon-les-Bains is a historic spa town in western Switzerland known for its thermal baths, medieval castle, and location at the southern end of Lake Neuchâtel.
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E.
Aubonne
Aubonne is a river in western Switzerland that flows through the canton of Vaud before emptying into Lake Geneva.
- 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: Richterswil Target entity description: Richterswil is a picturesque municipality on the shores of Lake Zurich in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland.
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A.
Schaffhausen
Schaffhausen is a historic town and capital of the canton of the same name in northern Switzerland, known for its well-preserved medieval old town and proximity to the Rhine Falls.
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B.
Solothurn
Solothurn is a canton in northwestern Switzerland known for its historic baroque town of the same name and its location along the Aare River.
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C.
Vallorbe
Vallorbe is a Swiss municipality in the canton of Vaud, known for its location near the French border and its notable karst caves and natural landscapes.
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D.
Yverdon-les-Bains
Yverdon-les-Bains is a historic spa town in western Switzerland known for its thermal baths, medieval castle, and location at the southern end of Lake Neuchâtel.
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E.
Aubonne
Aubonne is a river in western Switzerland that flows through the canton of Vaud before emptying into Lake Geneva.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Richterswil Description of subject: Richterswil is a picturesque municipality on the shores of Lake Zurich in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Richterswil
linked to: Richterswil
linked to: Richterswil
subject linked to:
Wollerau, Switzerland