Canton of Vaud
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The Canton of Vaud is a predominantly French-speaking canton in western Switzerland, known for its capital Lausanne, its location along Lake Geneva, and its mix of urban centers, vineyards, and Alpine landscapes.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| canton of Vaud | 160 |
| Canton of Vaud canonical | 82 |
| Canton de Vaud | 2 |
| Vaud | 2 |
| Canton of Vaud, Switzerland | 1 |
| Swiss canton of Vaud | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T842619 — 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: Canton of Vaud Context triple: [Gland, Switzerland, canton, Canton of Vaud]
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canton of Fribourg
The canton of Fribourg is a bilingual (French- and German-speaking) Swiss canton in western Switzerland, known for its medieval capital city, rural landscapes, and traditional cheese-making regions such as Gruyères.
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Canton of Valais
The Canton of Valais is a mountainous region in southwestern Switzerland known for its Alpine landscapes, vineyards, and major ski resorts such as Zermatt and Verbier.
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canton of Geneva
The canton of Geneva is the westernmost Swiss canton, encompassing the city of Geneva and serving as a major international, diplomatic, and financial hub.
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canton of Bern
The canton of Bern is a large, predominantly German-speaking canton in west-central Switzerland that includes the federal capital city of Bern and encompasses diverse landscapes from the Swiss Plateau to the Alps.
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Nyon District
Nyon District is an administrative district in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland, situated along Lake Geneva and functioning as part of the broader Geneva metropolitan region.
- 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: Canton of Vaud Target entity description: The Canton of Vaud is a predominantly French-speaking canton in western Switzerland, known for its capital Lausanne, its location along Lake Geneva, and its mix of urban centers, vineyards, and Alpine landscapes.
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canton of Fribourg
The canton of Fribourg is a bilingual (French- and German-speaking) Swiss canton in western Switzerland, known for its medieval capital city, rural landscapes, and traditional cheese-making regions such as Gruyères.
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Canton of Valais
The Canton of Valais is a mountainous region in southwestern Switzerland known for its Alpine landscapes, vineyards, and major ski resorts such as Zermatt and Verbier.
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canton of Geneva
The canton of Geneva is the westernmost Swiss canton, encompassing the city of Geneva and serving as a major international, diplomatic, and financial hub.
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canton of Bern
The canton of Bern is a large, predominantly German-speaking canton in west-central Switzerland that includes the federal capital city of Bern and encompasses diverse landscapes from the Swiss Plateau to the Alps.
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Nyon District
Nyon District is an administrative district in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland, situated along Lake Geneva and functioning as part of the broader Geneva metropolitan region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Canton of Vaud Description of subject: The Canton of Vaud is a predominantly French-speaking canton in western Switzerland, known for its capital Lausanne, its location along Lake Geneva, and its mix of urban centers, vineyards, and Alpine landscapes.
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