Meilen
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Meilen is a municipality in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, situated on the northern shore of Lake Zurich and known as part of the region’s affluent “Gold Coast.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meilen canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3356662 — 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: Meilen Context triple: [Lake Zurich, hasShorelineSettlement, Meilen]
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A.
Milles
Milles is a surname and variant of "Mills" that appears in English-speaking contexts.
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B.
Mille
Mille is a French surname most notably borne by individuals such as Stéphane Mille.
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C.
Kile
Kile is a KDE-based integrated LaTeX editor that provides tools for writing, compiling, and previewing LaTeX documents efficiently.
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D.
Menstrie
Menstrie is a small village in central Scotland, situated at the foot of the Ochil Hills in Clackmannanshire.
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E.
Mechelin
Mechelin is a Finnish surname most notably associated with Leo Mechelin, a prominent 19th-century liberal politician and statesman.
- 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: Meilen Target entity description: Meilen is a municipality in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, situated on the northern shore of Lake Zurich and known as part of the region’s affluent “Gold Coast.”
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A.
Milles
Milles is a surname and variant of "Mills" that appears in English-speaking contexts.
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B.
Mille
Mille is a French surname most notably borne by individuals such as Stéphane Mille.
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C.
Kile
Kile is a KDE-based integrated LaTeX editor that provides tools for writing, compiling, and previewing LaTeX documents efficiently.
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D.
Menstrie
Menstrie is a small village in central Scotland, situated at the foot of the Ochil Hills in Clackmannanshire.
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E.
Mechelin
Mechelin is a Finnish surname most notably associated with Leo Mechelin, a prominent 19th-century liberal politician and statesman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipality of Switzerland ⓘ |
| administrativeCenterOf | Meilen District ⓘ |
| canton | canton of Zürich ⓘ |
| climate | temperate oceanic climate ⓘ |
| coatOfArms | blue shield with a silver diagonal stripe and three golden stars ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| distanceTo | about 10 km southeast of Zürich city centre ⓘ |
| district | Meilen District ⓘ |
| elevation |
420 metres
ⓘ
about 1,380 feet ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
services sector
ⓘ
small and medium-sized enterprises ⓘ wine production ⓘ |
| hasFerryConnection | Horgen–Meilen ferry ⓘ |
| hasHeritageSite |
Catholic Church of Meilen
ⓘ
Reformed Church of Meilen ⓘ former Meilen mill complex ⓘ |
| hasPort | Meilen lakeside pier ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransport | Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft boat services ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation | Meilen railway station ⓘ |
| hasRoadConnection | Seestrasse (Lake Zürich lakeside road) ⓘ |
| hasTransport | Zürich S-Bahn ⓘ |
| hasTwinTown | Meilen am See, Germany (if applicable / check needed) ⓘ |
| ISO3166-2 | CH-ZH ⓘ |
| knownFor |
affluent residential area
ⓘ
lakeside location ⓘ viticulture ⓘ |
| localDialect |
Alemannic German
ⓘ
surface form:
Zürich German
|
| locatedIn |
Lake Zürich right bank
ⓘ
Swiss Plateau ⓘ northern shore of Lake Zürich ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Greater Zürich Area
ⓘ
surface form:
Zürich metropolitan area
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| locatedOn |
Lake Zurich
ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Zürich
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| municipalityCode | 0155 ⓘ |
| neighboringMunicipality |
Egg, Zürich
ⓘ
Herrliberg ⓘ Küsnacht, Zürich, Switzerland ⓘ
surface form:
Küsnacht, Zürich
Oetwil am See ⓘ Uetikon am See ⓘ Zumikon ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | German ⓘ |
| partOf |
Zürichberg area
ⓘ
surface form:
Gold Coast (Zürich)
|
| postalCode | 8706 ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Central European Summer Time ⓘ |
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: Meilen Description of subject: Meilen is a municipality in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, situated on the northern shore of Lake Zurich and known as part of the region’s affluent “Gold Coast.”
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.