Ependes (VD)
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Ependes (VD) is a small municipality in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ependes (VD) canonical | 3 |
| Ependes (Vaud) | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10375720 — 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: Ependes (VD) Context triple: [Jura-Nord vaudois, contains, Ependes (VD)]
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A.
Sevelen (Switzerland)
Sevelen is a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen in eastern Switzerland, located in the Rhine Valley near the border with Liechtenstein.
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B.
Broye district
Broye district is an administrative district in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, known for its predominantly rural character and location in the western part of the country.
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C.
Villigen
Villigen is a municipality in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland, known for hosting major scientific research facilities.
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D.
Bossonnens
Bossonnens is a small municipality in the canton of Fribourg in western Switzerland.
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E.
Blonay – Saint-Légier
Blonay – Saint-Légier is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland, located above Lake Geneva in the Riviera-Pays-d’Enhaut district.
- 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: Ependes (VD) Target entity description: Ependes (VD) is a small municipality in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland.
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A.
Sevelen (Switzerland)
Sevelen is a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen in eastern Switzerland, located in the Rhine Valley near the border with Liechtenstein.
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B.
Broye district
Broye district is an administrative district in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, known for its predominantly rural character and location in the western part of the country.
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C.
Villigen
Villigen is a municipality in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland, known for hosting major scientific research facilities.
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D.
Bossonnens
Bossonnens is a small municipality in the canton of Fribourg in western Switzerland.
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E.
Blonay – Saint-Légier
Blonay – Saint-Légier is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland, located above Lake Geneva in the Riviera-Pays-d’Enhaut district.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipality ⓘ |
| canton | Vaud ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision |
canton of Vaud
ⓘ
linked to:
Canton of Vaud
|
| drivesOnThe | right ⓘ |
| geographicalFeature |
administrative territorial entity
ⓘ
settlement ⓘ |
| governmentType | Swiss municipal government ⓘ |
| hasISO3166-2Code | CH-VD ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalityStatus | active municipality ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalityType | rural municipality ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | Ependes ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Swiss Confederation
ⓘ
canton of Vaud ⓘ
linked to:
Canton of Vaud
|
| locatedIn |
Romandy
ⓘ
district of Jura-Nord vaudois ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | French ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| region |
western Switzerland
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Switzerland
|
| usesCurrency | Swiss franc ⓘ |
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: Ependes (VD) Description of subject: Ependes (VD) is a small municipality in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ependes (VD)
linked to: Ependes (VD)
linked to: Ependes (VD)