Cossonay
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Cossonay is a historic municipality in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland, known for its medieval old town and scenic setting above the Venoge River valley.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cossonay canonical | 4 |
| Cossonay-Ville | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10594500 — 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: Cossonay Context triple: [La Venoge, flowsThrough, Cossonay]
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A.
Céligny
Céligny is a small, affluent Swiss village on the shores of Lake Geneva, known for its picturesque setting and as the burial place of actor Richard Burton.
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B.
Bardonnex
Bardonnex is a small Swiss municipality located in the canton of Geneva, near the country’s border with France.
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C.
Chavornay
Chavornay is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland, known for its rural character and location in the Orbe plain.
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D.
Bossonnens
Bossonnens is a small municipality in the canton of Fribourg in western Switzerland.
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E.
Le Locle
Le Locle is a Swiss town in the Jura Mountains renowned as a historic center of the watchmaking industry and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- 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: Cossonay Target entity description: Cossonay is a historic municipality in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland, known for its medieval old town and scenic setting above the Venoge River valley.
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A.
Céligny
Céligny is a small, affluent Swiss village on the shores of Lake Geneva, known for its picturesque setting and as the burial place of actor Richard Burton.
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B.
Bardonnex
Bardonnex is a small Swiss municipality located in the canton of Geneva, near the country’s border with France.
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C.
Chavornay
Chavornay is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland, known for its rural character and location in the Orbe plain.
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D.
Bossonnens
Bossonnens is a small municipality in the canton of Fribourg in western Switzerland.
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E.
Le Locle
Le Locle is a Swiss town in the Jura Mountains renowned as a historic center of the watchmaking industry and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipality ⓘ |
| climate | temperate oceanic climate ⓘ |
| coatOfArmsDescription | or, a lion rampant gules ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 560 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| governedBy |
municipal council of Cossonay
ⓘ
linked to:
municipality of Cossonay
|
| hasEconomicActivity |
commuter residential community
ⓘ
services ⓘ small industry ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
historic center
ⓘ
medieval old town ⓘ scenic setting ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance |
former local seigneurial center
ⓘ
medieval market town ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
agricultural land
ⓘ
forested land ⓘ settled area ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalityCode | 5482 ⓘ |
| hasNearbyInfrastructure |
A1 motorway (Morges junction)
ⓘ
A9 motorway (Lausanne region) ⓘ
linked to:
A9 motorway (Switzerland)
|
| hasPart |
Cossonay-Gare
ⓘ
Cossonay-Ville ⓘ
linked to:
Cossonay
|
| hasPopulationCharacteristic | predominantly French-speaking ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | parish church of Saint-Pierre ⓘ |
| hasRiver | Venoge ⓘ |
| hasViewOf |
Alps
ⓘ
Jura Mountains ⓘ |
| heritageElement |
historic town walls remnants
ⓘ
old town street grid ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | listed in the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites ⓘ |
| locatedAbove |
Venoge River valley
ⓘ
linked to:
Venoge river valley
|
| locatedIn |
canton of Vaud
ⓘ
linked to:
Canton of Vaud
western Switzerland ⓘ
linked to:
Western Switzerland
|
| locatedInAdministrativeUnit | district of Morges ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Gros-de-Vaud region
ⓘ
linked to:
Gros-de-Vaud
|
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Lausanne
ⓘ
Morges ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | Swiss Plateau ⓘ |
| postalCode | 1304 ⓘ |
| roadConnection | cantonal road Lausanne–Yverdon corridor ⓘ |
| transportConnection |
Cossonay–Gare railway station
ⓘ
linked to:
Cossonay-Gare
funicular between Cossonay-Ville and Cossonay-Gare ⓘ |
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: Cossonay Description of subject: Cossonay is a historic municipality in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland, known for its medieval old town and scenic setting above the Venoge River valley.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.