Port-Valais
E562360
Port-Valais is a small Swiss municipality in the canton of Valais, located near the eastern end of Lake Geneva and known for its scenic lakeside and Rhône delta landscapes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Port-Valais canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3953404 — 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: Port-Valais Context triple: [Monthey, hasNeighbouringMunicipality, Port-Valais]
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A.
Grisons
Grisons is the largest and easternmost canton of Switzerland, known for its mountainous Alpine landscapes and multilingual culture (German, Romansh, and Italian).
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B.
Upper Valais
Upper Valais is the predominantly German-speaking, mountainous eastern part of the Swiss canton of Valais, known for its Alpine landscapes, glaciers, and major ski resorts.
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C.
Canton of Valais
The Canton of Valais is a mountainous region in southwestern Switzerland known for its Alpine landscapes, vineyards, and major ski resorts such as Zermatt and Verbier.
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D.
Lower Valais
Lower Valais is the western, predominantly French-speaking part of the Swiss canton of Valais, known for its Alpine landscapes, vineyards, and key towns such as Martigny and Monthey.
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E.
Vaud
Vaud is a French-speaking canton in western Switzerland known for its picturesque Lake Geneva shoreline, Alpine scenery, and historic towns such as Lausanne and Montreux.
- 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: Port-Valais Target entity description: Port-Valais is a small Swiss municipality in the canton of Valais, located near the eastern end of Lake Geneva and known for its scenic lakeside and Rhône delta landscapes.
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A.
Grisons
Grisons is the largest and easternmost canton of Switzerland, known for its mountainous Alpine landscapes and multilingual culture (German, Romansh, and Italian).
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B.
Upper Valais
Upper Valais is the predominantly German-speaking, mountainous eastern part of the Swiss canton of Valais, known for its Alpine landscapes, glaciers, and major ski resorts.
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C.
Canton of Valais
The Canton of Valais is a mountainous region in southwestern Switzerland known for its Alpine landscapes, vineyards, and major ski resorts such as Zermatt and Verbier.
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D.
Lower Valais
Lower Valais is the western, predominantly French-speaking part of the Swiss canton of Valais, known for its Alpine landscapes, vineyards, and key towns such as Martigny and Monthey.
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E.
Vaud
Vaud is a French-speaking canton in western Switzerland known for its picturesque Lake Geneva shoreline, Alpine scenery, and historic towns such as Lausanne and Montreux.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipality ⓘ |
| borderedBy | Lake Geneva shoreline ⓘ |
| canton | Valais ⓘ |
| climate | temperate climate influenced by Lake Geneva ⓘ |
| coatOfArms | coat of arms of Port-Valais ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 375 metres ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
recreation
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| hasLandscapeFeature |
Rhône delta wetlands
ⓘ
linked to:
Rhône delta
lakeside scenery ⓘ |
| hasNeighbouringMunicipality |
Collombey-Muraz
ⓘ
Monthey ⓘ Noville ⓘ Saint-Gingolph ⓘ Vouvry ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.port-valais.ch/ ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Le Bouveret
ⓘ
Les Evouettes ⓘ |
| hasRecreationalArea | Rhône delta nature area ⓘ |
| hasTouristAttraction |
camping sites
ⓘ
lakeside promenades ⓘ marinas ⓘ water sports facilities ⓘ |
| hasTransportConnection |
lake navigation services on Lake Geneva
ⓘ
railway station at Les Evouettes ⓘ road links to Monthey ⓘ |
| ISO3166-2Code | CH-VS ⓘ |
| locatedAtMouthOf | Rhône River ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Rhône delta region
ⓘ
Rhône valley ⓘ western Switzerland ⓘ
linked to:
Western Switzerland
|
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | district of Monthey ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Chablais Valaisan
ⓘ
linked to:
Chablais Vaudois
|
| locatedNear | eastern end of Lake Geneva ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Lake Geneva ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| postalCode | 1897 ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
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: Port-Valais Description of subject: Port-Valais is a small Swiss municipality in the canton of Valais, located near the eastern end of Lake Geneva and known for its scenic lakeside and Rhône delta landscapes.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.