Waterloo, Belgium
E238281
Waterloo, Belgium is a town in Walloon Brabant best known as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s decisive defeat in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waterloo, Belgium canonical | 7 |
| Waterloo | 4 |
| Waterloo, present-day Belgium | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2136883 — 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: Waterloo, Belgium Context triple: [Waterloo Bridge, namedAfter, Waterloo, Belgium]
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A.
La Hulpe, Belgium
La Hulpe is a small municipality in Walloon Brabant, Belgium, known for hosting the headquarters of the global financial messaging network SWIFT and for its nearby Solvay Castle and park.
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B.
Brussels, Belgium
Brussels, Belgium is the capital city of Belgium and a major political center of Europe, hosting key institutions such as the European Union and numerous international organizations.
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C.
Halle, Belgium
Halle is a historic city in the Flemish Brabant province of Belgium, known for its medieval basilica and role as a regional commercial and cultural center near Brussels.
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D.
Namur
Namur is a historic Belgian city and the capital of Wallonia, located at the confluence of the Meuse and Sambre rivers.
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E.
Duinkerke
Duinkerke is the Dutch name for Dunkirk, a historic port city in northern France known for its pivotal World War II evacuation.
- 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: Waterloo, Belgium Target entity description: Waterloo, Belgium is a town in Walloon Brabant best known as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s decisive defeat in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
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A.
La Hulpe, Belgium
La Hulpe is a small municipality in Walloon Brabant, Belgium, known for hosting the headquarters of the global financial messaging network SWIFT and for its nearby Solvay Castle and park.
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B.
Brussels, Belgium
Brussels, Belgium is the capital city of Belgium and a major political center of Europe, hosting key institutions such as the European Union and numerous international organizations.
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C.
Halle, Belgium
Halle is a historic city in the Flemish Brabant province of Belgium, known for its medieval basilica and role as a regional commercial and cultural center near Brussels.
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D.
Namur
Namur is a historic Belgian city and the capital of Wallonia, located at the confluence of the Meuse and Sambre rivers.
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E.
Duinkerke
Duinkerke is the Dutch name for Dunkirk, a historic port city in northern France known for its pivotal World War II evacuation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Waterloo, Belgium Description of subject: Waterloo, Belgium is a town in Walloon Brabant best known as the site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s decisive defeat in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Waterloo
subject surface form:
La Haye Sainte
this entity surface form:
Waterloo
this entity surface form:
Waterloo
this entity surface form:
Waterloo
subject surface form:
Battle of Waterloo
subject surface form:
Georg Baring
this entity surface form:
Waterloo, present-day Belgium