Nilsby, Värmland County, Sweden
E175075
Nilsby in Värmland County, Sweden, is a small rural locality known primarily as the birthplace of influential engineer and information theorist Harry Nyquist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nilsby, Värmland County, Sweden canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1523930 — 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: Nilsby, Värmland County, Sweden Context triple: [Harry Nyquist, birthPlace, Nilsby, Värmland County, Sweden]
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A.
Karlskoga, Sweden
Karlskoga, Sweden is an industrial town in central Sweden best known for its historic arms manufacturer Bofors and its association with Alfred Nobel.
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B.
Lysaker, Norway
Lysaker, Norway is a suburban area in Bærum just west of Oslo, known as a residential and commercial hub and historically associated with notable figures such as explorer Fridtjof Nansen.
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C.
Växjö, Sweden
Växjö is a mid-sized city in southern Sweden known for its environmental sustainability initiatives, universities, and role as a regional cultural and economic center in Småland.
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D.
Moss, Norway
Moss is a coastal town and municipality in southeastern Norway known for its industrial heritage, ferry connections across the Oslofjord, and scenic beaches and forests.
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E.
Lillesand
Lillesand is a small coastal town and municipality in Agder county, Norway, known for its white wooden houses, maritime heritage, and popular summer tourism along the Skagerrak coast.
- 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: Nilsby, Värmland County, Sweden Target entity description: Nilsby in Värmland County, Sweden, is a small rural locality known primarily as the birthplace of influential engineer and information theorist Harry Nyquist.
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A.
Karlskoga, Sweden
Karlskoga, Sweden is an industrial town in central Sweden best known for its historic arms manufacturer Bofors and its association with Alfred Nobel.
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B.
Lysaker, Norway
Lysaker, Norway is a suburban area in Bærum just west of Oslo, known as a residential and commercial hub and historically associated with notable figures such as explorer Fridtjof Nansen.
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C.
Växjö, Sweden
Växjö is a mid-sized city in southern Sweden known for its environmental sustainability initiatives, universities, and role as a regional cultural and economic center in Småland.
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D.
Moss, Norway
Moss is a coastal town and municipality in southeastern Norway known for its industrial heritage, ferry connections across the Oslofjord, and scenic beaches and forests.
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E.
Lillesand
Lillesand is a small coastal town and municipality in Agder county, Norway, known for its white wooden houses, maritime heritage, and popular summer tourism along the Skagerrak coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
electrical engineer
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information theorist ⓘ rural locality ⓘ village ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Nilsby, Värmland County, Sweden self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| characteristic |
rural
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small settlement ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Sweden
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Sweden ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
communication theory
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control theory ⓘ information theory ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerson | Harry Nyquist ⓘ |
| hasTimezone |
Central European Summer Time
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Central European Time ⓘ |
| hasUTCOffset | +01:00 ⓘ |
| hasUTCOffsetDST | +02:00 ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the birthplace of Harry Nyquist ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Swedish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Scandinavia
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Sweden ⓘ Värmland County ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Nyquist theorem
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surface form:
Nyquist frequency
Nyquist theorem ⓘ
surface form:
Nyquist rate
Nyquist stability criterion ⓘ Nyquist theorem ⓘ
surface form:
Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem
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| partOf | western Sweden ⓘ |
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: Nilsby, Värmland County, Sweden Description of subject: Nilsby in Värmland County, Sweden, is a small rural locality known primarily as the birthplace of influential engineer and information theorist Harry Nyquist.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Harry Nyquist
Nilsby, Värmland County, Sweden
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birthPlace
→
Nilsby, Värmland County, Sweden
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Harry Nyquist