Silvaplana
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Silvaplana is a picturesque municipality in Switzerland’s Upper Engadine region, known for its lakes, mountain scenery, and popular wind- and kitesurfing conditions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Silvaplana canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3707799 — 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: Silvaplana Context triple: [Sils Maria, locatedNear, Silvaplana]
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A.
Visp
Visp is a small town in the canton of Valais in southwestern Switzerland, situated in the Rhône valley and known as a regional transport hub and gateway to nearby Alpine resorts.
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B.
Menthon-Saint-Bernard
Menthon-Saint-Bernard is a picturesque commune in southeastern France, known for its lakeside setting on Lake Annecy and its historic hilltop château.
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C.
Vallorbe
Vallorbe is a Swiss municipality in the canton of Vaud, known for its location near the French border and its notable karst caves and natural landscapes.
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D.
Morges
Morges is a Swiss town on the shores of Lake Geneva that historically hosted the founding of the World Wildlife Fund and serves as a local cultural and economic center in the canton of Vaud.
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E.
Zermatt
Zermatt is a renowned Swiss alpine resort village in the canton of Valais, famous for its skiing, mountaineering, and proximity to iconic peaks like the Matterhorn.
- 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: Silvaplana Target entity description: Silvaplana is a picturesque municipality in Switzerland’s Upper Engadine region, known for its lakes, mountain scenery, and popular wind- and kitesurfing conditions.
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A.
Visp
Visp is a small town in the canton of Valais in southwestern Switzerland, situated in the Rhône valley and known as a regional transport hub and gateway to nearby Alpine resorts.
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B.
Menthon-Saint-Bernard
Menthon-Saint-Bernard is a picturesque commune in southeastern France, known for its lakeside setting on Lake Annecy and its historic hilltop château.
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C.
Vallorbe
Vallorbe is a Swiss municipality in the canton of Vaud, known for its location near the French border and its notable karst caves and natural landscapes.
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D.
Morges
Morges is a Swiss town on the shores of Lake Geneva that historically hosted the founding of the World Wildlife Fund and serves as a local cultural and economic center in the canton of Vaud.
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E.
Zermatt
Zermatt is a renowned Swiss alpine resort village in the canton of Valais, famous for its skiing, mountaineering, and proximity to iconic peaks like the Matterhorn.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipality ⓘ |
| climate | alpine climate ⓘ |
| contains |
Lake Champfèr
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lake Silvaplana ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 1815 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites (village core) ⓘ |
| hasLakeShore | Lake Silvaplana ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.silvaplana.ch ⓘ |
| hasParishChurch | Church of San Lurench ⓘ |
| hasPopularSport |
hiking
ⓘ
mountain biking ⓘ skiing ⓘ snowkiting ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode |
7512
ⓘ
7513 ⓘ |
| hasSettlement |
Champfèr
ⓘ
Surlej ⓘ |
| hasTourismType |
summer tourism
ⓘ
winter tourism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
kitesurfing
ⓘ
lakes ⓘ mountain scenery ⓘ windsurfing ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Engadine valley
ⓘ
surface form:
Upper Engadine
|
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | canton of Graubünden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInMountainRange | Alps ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Engadine valley
ⓘ
surface form:
Engadine
|
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterBody | Inn River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighboringMunicipality |
Bregaglia Valley
ⓘ
surface form:
Bregaglia
Celerina/Schlarigna ⓘ Samedan ⓘ Sils im Engadin ⓘ
surface form:
Sils im Engadin/Segl
St. Moritz ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | German ⓘ |
| partOfDistrict |
Viamala region
ⓘ
surface form:
Maloja Region
|
| transportConnection |
Julier Pass
ⓘ
surface form:
Julier Pass road
PostBus Switzerland ⓘ
surface form:
PostBus Switzerland network
|
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: Silvaplana Description of subject: Silvaplana is a picturesque municipality in Switzerland’s Upper Engadine region, known for its lakes, mountain scenery, and popular wind- and kitesurfing conditions.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Engadine