Waag (weigh house)
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Waag is a historic former weigh house in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, known for its distinctive Renaissance architecture and role in the city’s trading past.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Waag (weigh house) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6322521 — 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: Waag (weigh house) Context triple: [Leeuwarden, hasLandmark, Waag (weigh house)]
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A.
Waag (Amsterdam weighing house)
Waag (Amsterdam weighing house) is a historic 15th-century city gate turned weighing house on Nieuwmarkt square in Amsterdam, notable for its later use as a guildhall and its distinctive medieval architecture.
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Waag (Weighing House) on Grote Markt
The Waag (Weighing House) on the Grote Markt is a historic Renaissance weighing house and former trade building in Nijmegen, notable for its ornate façade and role in the city’s commercial past.
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Waag
Waag is a historic weighing house located on the Grote Markt, notable for its traditional role in trade and its characteristic Dutch architecture.
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Dutch Windmill
The Dutch Windmill is a historic, Dutch-style windmill in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, originally built in the early 1900s to pump water for the park’s irrigation system and now serving as a picturesque landmark.
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E.
Waidhaus
Waidhaus is a municipality in eastern Bavaria, Germany, near the Czech border, known as a key road border crossing and transport hub.
- 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: Waag (weigh house) Target entity description: Waag is a historic former weigh house in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, known for its distinctive Renaissance architecture and role in the city’s trading past.
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A.
Waag (Amsterdam weighing house)
Waag (Amsterdam weighing house) is a historic 15th-century city gate turned weighing house on Nieuwmarkt square in Amsterdam, notable for its later use as a guildhall and its distinctive medieval architecture.
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B.
Waag (Weighing House) on Grote Markt
The Waag (Weighing House) on the Grote Markt is a historic Renaissance weighing house and former trade building in Nijmegen, notable for its ornate façade and role in the city’s commercial past.
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C.
Waag
Waag is a historic weighing house located on the Grote Markt, notable for its traditional role in trade and its characteristic Dutch architecture.
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D.
Dutch Windmill
The Dutch Windmill is a historic, Dutch-style windmill in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, originally built in the early 1900s to pump water for the park’s irrigation system and now serving as a picturesque landmark.
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E.
Waidhaus
Waidhaus is a municipality in eastern Bavaria, Germany, near the Czech border, known as a key road border crossing and transport hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Renaissance building
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historic building ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ weigh house ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Dutch Renaissance
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linked to:
Dutch Renaissance architecture
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| category |
Buildings and structures in Leeuwarden
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Renaissance architecture in the Netherlands ⓘ Weigh houses in the Netherlands ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| currentUse |
monument
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tourist site ⓘ |
| hasDistinctiveFeature |
decorative stonework
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ornate Renaissance façade ⓘ stepped gables ⓘ symmetrical front elevation ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
trade regulation
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weighing goods ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage |
Waag (Dutch)
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linked to:
Waag
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| heritageDesignation | Rijksmonument ⓘ |
| heritageDesignationCountry | Netherlands ⓘ |
| historicalRole | center of city trade ⓘ |
| isPartOf | historic centre of Leeuwarden ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Leeuwarden ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity | Friesland ⓘ |
| locatedInContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| locatedInOldTown | city centre of Leeuwarden ⓘ |
| material |
brick
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natural stone ⓘ |
| significance |
example of Renaissance civic architecture in the Netherlands
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symbol of Leeuwarden’s trading past ⓘ |
| usedFor |
market activities
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weighing merchandise for trade ⓘ |
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: Waag (weigh house) Description of subject: Waag is a historic former weigh house in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, known for its distinctive Renaissance architecture and role in the city’s trading past.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.