Heiden
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Heiden is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, known as the place where Red Cross founder Henry Dunant spent his final years and died.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Heiden canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T380746 — 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: Heiden Context triple: [Henry Dunant, placeOfDeath, Heiden]
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A.
Escharen
Escharen is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant that was formerly an independent municipality before being incorporated into a larger administrative unit.
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B.
Mohrungen
Mohrungen is a historic town in former East Prussia (now Morąg in northern Poland), known as the birthplace of philosopher and theologian Johann Gottfried Herder.
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C.
Valbo
Valbo is a locality in Gävleborg County, Sweden, known as the hometown of NHL ice hockey star Nicklas Bäckström.
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D.
Volkerak
Volkerak is a lake and former estuarine channel in the southwestern Netherlands that forms part of the country’s major Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt waterway system.
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E.
Ngäbere
Ngäbere is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken primarily by the Ngäbe people in Panama and parts of Costa Rica.
- 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: Heiden Target entity description: Heiden is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, known as the place where Red Cross founder Henry Dunant spent his final years and died.
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A.
Escharen
Escharen is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant that was formerly an independent municipality before being incorporated into a larger administrative unit.
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B.
Mohrungen
Mohrungen is a historic town in former East Prussia (now Morąg in northern Poland), known as the birthplace of philosopher and theologian Johann Gottfried Herder.
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C.
Valbo
Valbo is a locality in Gävleborg County, Sweden, known as the hometown of NHL ice hockey star Nicklas Bäckström.
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D.
Volkerak
Volkerak is a lake and former estuarine channel in the southwestern Netherlands that forms part of the country’s major Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt waterway system.
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E.
Ngäbere
Ngäbere is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken primarily by the Ngäbe people in Panama and parts of Costa Rica.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Heiden Description of subject: Heiden is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, known as the place where Red Cross founder Henry Dunant spent his final years and died.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Jean
subject linked to:
Eric Heiden won five gold medals in speed skating
subject linked to:
Eric Heiden set multiple Olympic and world records in speed skating