Hirzel
E98591
Hirzel is a small Swiss village in the canton of Zurich, known as the birthplace of "Heidi" author Johanna Spyri.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hirzel canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T735890 — 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: Hirzel Context triple: [Johanna Spyri, placeOfBirth, Hirzel]
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A.
Hilaire
Hilaire is a given name associated with the French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas, whose full name was Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas.
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B.
Georges
Georges is a masculine given name of Greek origin, commonly used in French-speaking countries and derived from the name George, meaning "farmer" or "earthworker."
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C.
Jacques
Jacques is the French form of the given name James, commonly used in French-speaking countries.
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D.
René
René is a French given name commonly used for males and historically associated with several notable figures in politics, arts, and philosophy.
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E.
Eugène
Eugène is a masculine given name of French origin, derived from the Greek "Eugenios," meaning "well-born" or "noble."
- 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: Hirzel Target entity description: Hirzel is a small Swiss village in the canton of Zurich, known as the birthplace of "Heidi" author Johanna Spyri.
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A.
Hilaire
Hilaire is a given name associated with the French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas, whose full name was Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas.
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B.
Georges
Georges is a masculine given name of Greek origin, commonly used in French-speaking countries and derived from the name George, meaning "farmer" or "earthworker."
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C.
Jacques
Jacques is the French form of the given name James, commonly used in French-speaking countries.
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D.
René
René is a French given name commonly used for males and historically associated with several notable figures in politics, arts, and philosophy.
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E.
Eugène
Eugène is a masculine given name of French origin, derived from the Greek "Eugenios," meaning "well-born" or "noble."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Hirzel Description of subject: Hirzel is a small Swiss village in the canton of Zurich, known as the birthplace of "Heidi" author Johanna Spyri.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.