Zaanstad
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Zaanstad is a municipality in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands, known for its historic windmills, industrial heritage, and the picturesque Zaanse Schans area.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zaanstad canonical | 8 |
| Zaanse Schans | 2 |
| Zaandijk | 1 |
| Zaanstreek | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T572601 — 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: Zaanstad Context triple: [Potsdam, twinnedWith, Zaanstad]
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A.
Vlaardingen
Vlaardingen is a historic port city in the western Netherlands, situated along the Nieuwe Maas river and known for its former herring fishing industry.
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B.
Amstelveen
Amstelveen is a suburban municipality in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands, located just south of Amsterdam and known for its residential character and proximity to major cultural and economic centers.
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C.
Noordwijk
Noordwijk is a coastal town in the western Netherlands known for its North Sea beaches, flower bulb fields, and the nearby European Space Agency’s ESTEC facility.
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D.
Katwijk
Katwijk is a coastal town and municipality in the western Netherlands known for its North Sea beaches and historic fishing heritage.
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E.
Zoetermeer
Zoetermeer is a modern, rapidly grown satellite city of The Hague in the western Netherlands, known for its residential neighborhoods and light-rail connections.
- 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: Zaanstad Target entity description: Zaanstad is a municipality in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands, known for its historic windmills, industrial heritage, and the picturesque Zaanse Schans area.
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A.
Vlaardingen
Vlaardingen is a historic port city in the western Netherlands, situated along the Nieuwe Maas river and known for its former herring fishing industry.
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B.
Amstelveen
Amstelveen is a suburban municipality in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands, located just south of Amsterdam and known for its residential character and proximity to major cultural and economic centers.
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C.
Noordwijk
Noordwijk is a coastal town in the western Netherlands known for its North Sea beaches, flower bulb fields, and the nearby European Space Agency’s ESTEC facility.
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D.
Katwijk
Katwijk is a coastal town and municipality in the western Netherlands known for its North Sea beaches and historic fishing heritage.
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E.
Zoetermeer
Zoetermeer is a modern, rapidly grown satellite city of The Hague in the western Netherlands, known for its residential neighborhoods and light-rail connections.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Zaanstad Description of subject: Zaanstad is a municipality in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands, known for its historic windmills, industrial heritage, and the picturesque Zaanse Schans area.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Zaanstreek