Waterloo
E93431
Waterloo is a town in present-day Belgium best known as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s decisive defeat in 1815, which ended the Napoleonic Wars and reshaped European politics.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waterloo canonical | 41 |
| Waterloo battlefield | 6 |
| Waterloo town | 1 |
| Waterloo, London | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T782342 — 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: Waterloo Context triple: [Battle of Waterloo, location, Waterloo]
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A.
Plains of Abraham
The Plains of Abraham is a historic plateau in Quebec City, Canada, best known as the site of the pivotal 1759 battle between British and French forces that shaped the future of North America.
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B.
Ramillies
Ramillies is a village in present-day Belgium best known as the site of the 1706 Battle of Ramillies during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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C.
Kitchener
Kitchener is a mid-sized city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, known for its manufacturing history and annual Oktoberfest celebration.
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D.
Waterloo, Ontario
Waterloo, Ontario is a Canadian city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo best known as a major tech and innovation hub and home to the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University.
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E.
Pontoise
Pontoise is a historic commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France, known for its picturesque setting on the River Oise and its association with Impressionist painters.
- 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: Waterloo Target entity description: Waterloo is a town in present-day Belgium best known as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s decisive defeat in 1815, which ended the Napoleonic Wars and reshaped European politics.
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A.
Plains of Abraham
The Plains of Abraham is a historic plateau in Quebec City, Canada, best known as the site of the pivotal 1759 battle between British and French forces that shaped the future of North America.
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B.
Ramillies
Ramillies is a village in present-day Belgium best known as the site of the 1706 Battle of Ramillies during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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C.
Kitchener
Kitchener is a mid-sized city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, known for its manufacturing history and annual Oktoberfest celebration.
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D.
Waterloo, Ontario
Waterloo, Ontario is a Canadian city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo best known as a major tech and innovation hub and home to the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University.
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E.
Pontoise
Pontoise is a historic commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France, known for its picturesque setting on the River Oise and its association with Impressionist painters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Waterloo Description of subject: Waterloo is a town in present-day Belgium best known as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s decisive defeat in 1815, which ended the Napoleonic Wars and reshaped European politics.
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Waterloo
subject linked to:
La Hulpe, Belgium
subject linked to:
King's Own Scottish Borderers (historical)
subject linked to:
La Haye Sainte farm
linked to: Waterloo
subject linked to:
La Haye Sainte farm
linked to: Waterloo
linked to: Waterloo
linked to: Waterloo
linked to: Waterloo
linked to: Waterloo
linked to: Waterloo
subject linked to:
The Grenadiers
subject linked to:
arrondissement of Nivelles
subject linked to:
The Royal Green Jackets (historical)