Place de la Palud
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Place de la Palud is a historic central square in Lausanne, Switzerland, known for its town hall, animated clock, and role as a lively pedestrian meeting point.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Place de la Palud canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1239408 — 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: Place de la Palud Context triple: [Lausanne, hasLandmark, Place de la Palud]
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A.
Place de la Cathédrale
Place de la Cathédrale is a central square in Strasbourg, France, known for its proximity to and views of the city’s famous Gothic cathedral.
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B.
Promenade du Paillon
Promenade du Paillon is a central urban park and green corridor in Nice, France, featuring fountains, playgrounds, and landscaped walks stretching between the old town and the city’s main squares.
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C.
Place de l’Europe
Place de l’Europe is a prominent public square in Strasbourg, France, known for hosting key European institutions and symbolizing European unity.
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D.
Place du Luxembourg
Place du Luxembourg is a prominent square in Brussels, Belgium, known as a social and political hub due to its location directly in front of the European Parliament complex.
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E.
Place de l’Opéra
Place de l’Opéra is a prominent Parisian square in the 9th arrondissement, known for its grand urban layout and its role as the forecourt of the historic Palais Garnier opera house.
- 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: Place de la Palud Target entity description: Place de la Palud is a historic central square in Lausanne, Switzerland, known for its town hall, animated clock, and role as a lively pedestrian meeting point.
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A.
Place de la Cathédrale
Place de la Cathédrale is a central square in Strasbourg, France, known for its proximity to and views of the city’s famous Gothic cathedral.
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B.
Promenade du Paillon
Promenade du Paillon is a central urban park and green corridor in Nice, France, featuring fountains, playgrounds, and landscaped walks stretching between the old town and the city’s main squares.
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C.
Place de l’Europe
Place de l’Europe is a prominent public square in Strasbourg, France, known for hosting key European institutions and symbolizing European unity.
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D.
Place du Luxembourg
Place du Luxembourg is a prominent square in Brussels, Belgium, known as a social and political hub due to its location directly in front of the European Parliament complex.
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E.
Place de l’Opéra
Place de l’Opéra is a prominent Parisian square in the 9th arrondissement, known for its grand urban layout and its role as the forecourt of the historic Palais Garnier opera house.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public square
ⓘ
tourist attraction ⓘ urban square ⓘ |
| clockShowFrequency | hourly ⓘ |
| clockShows | historical scenes of Lausanne ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 46.521°N 6.633°E ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| fountainStatueDepicts | Lady Justice ⓘ |
| hasBuilding |
Lausanne city hall
ⓘ
surface form:
Hôtel de Ville de Lausanne
|
| hasClock | mechanical figurine clock ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
cafés
ⓘ
restaurants ⓘ retail shops ⓘ street vendors ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
cobbled surface
ⓘ
pedestrian-only access ⓘ public fountain ⓘ public seating ⓘ |
| hasFountain | Fountain of Justice ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
commercial hub
ⓘ
social gathering place ⓘ tourist meeting point ⓘ venue for public events ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen
ⓘ
surface form:
Fountain of Justice
Lausanne city hall ⓘ
surface form:
Lausanne Town Hall
animated clock ⓘ |
| hasNearbyMetroStation |
Lausanne-Flon station
ⓘ
surface form:
Lausanne-Flon metro station
Riponne–Maurice Béjart metro station ⓘ |
| hasNearbyStreet |
Rue de Bourg
ⓘ
Rue de la Palud ⓘ Rue du Pont ⓘ |
| hasNearbyTransport | Lausanne Flon area ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic area of Lausanne ⓘ |
| isCentralSquareOf | Lausanne ⓘ |
| knownFor |
animated mechanical clock
ⓘ
historic central square of Lausanne ⓘ meeting point for pedestrians ⓘ outdoor café terraces ⓘ street markets ⓘ |
| languageOfSignage | French ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Lausanne ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Canton of Vaud
ⓘ
surface form:
canton of Vaud
|
| locatedInOldTown |
Old Town of Lausanne
ⓘ
surface form:
Lausanne old town
|
| municipality | Lausanne ⓘ |
| pedestrianZone | true ⓘ |
| region | Romandy ⓘ |
| urbanPlanningRole | node in Lausanne pedestrian network ⓘ |
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: Place de la Palud Description of subject: Place de la Palud is a historic central square in Lausanne, Switzerland, known for its town hall, animated clock, and role as a lively pedestrian meeting point.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lausanne