Goppenstein
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Goppenstein is a small Swiss village in the canton of Valais, best known as a key railway junction and car shuttle station on the Lötschberg route through the Alps.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Goppenstein canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4228926 — 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: Goppenstein Context triple: [Lötschberg Pass, locatedNear, Goppenstein]
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A.
Biesenthal
Biesenthal is a small town in the Barnim district of Brandenburg, Germany, known for its surrounding lakes, forests, and location within the Barnim Nature Park.
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B.
Brackenheim
Brackenheim is a small town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, best known as the birthplace of Theodor Heuss, the first President of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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C.
Haldenstein
Haldenstein is a small Swiss village in the canton of Graubünden, known in architecture circles as the longtime base of renowned architect Peter Zumthor.
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D.
Erasbach
Erasbach is a small locality in Bavaria, Germany, best known as the birthplace of the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck.
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E.
Gerswalde
Gerswalde is a small rural municipality in the Uckermark district of Brandenburg, northeastern Germany.
- 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: Goppenstein Target entity description: Goppenstein is a small Swiss village in the canton of Valais, best known as a key railway junction and car shuttle station on the Lötschberg route through the Alps.
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A.
Biesenthal
Biesenthal is a small town in the Barnim district of Brandenburg, Germany, known for its surrounding lakes, forests, and location within the Barnim Nature Park.
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B.
Brackenheim
Brackenheim is a small town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, best known as the birthplace of Theodor Heuss, the first President of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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C.
Haldenstein
Haldenstein is a small Swiss village in the canton of Graubünden, known in architecture circles as the longtime base of renowned architect Peter Zumthor.
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D.
Erasbach
Erasbach is a small locality in Bavaria, Germany, best known as the birthplace of the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck.
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E.
Gerswalde
Gerswalde is a small rural municipality in the Uckermark district of Brandenburg, northeastern Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
settlement
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| connectsByCarShuttleTo | Kandersteg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsByRailTo |
Brig
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kandersteg NERFINISHED ⓘ Spiez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| hasApproximateElevation | 1216 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| hasClimate | alpine climate ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure |
car loading ramps
ⓘ
railway sidings ⓘ railway tunnel portal ⓘ station building ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | German NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyTourismArea |
Lötschental hiking region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lötschental ski area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailServiceType |
car shuttle train
ⓘ
freight train ⓘ regional train ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation | Goppenstein railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportFunction |
car shuttle terminal
ⓘ
railway junction ⓘ tunnel portal settlement ⓘ |
| isOnRoute |
Lötschberg route
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
north–south Alpine transit corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPortalOf | Lötschberg Tunnel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isServedBy |
BLS AG
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lötschberg railway line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSouthernPortalOf | Lötschberg Tunnel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alps
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bernese Alps NERFINISHED ⓘ Lötschental NERFINISHED ⓘ canton of Valais NERFINISHED ⓘ municipality of Ferden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Lonza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestMajorTown |
Brig
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Visp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfRailNetwork |
BLS Lötschberg axis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Swiss Federal Rail Network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Upper Valais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadAccessVia | Lötschentalstrasse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
passenger rail transport
ⓘ
trans-Alpine transit ⓘ vehicle transport through Lötschberg Tunnel ⓘ |
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: Goppenstein Description of subject: Goppenstein is a small Swiss village in the canton of Valais, best known as a key railway junction and car shuttle station on the Lötschberg route through the Alps.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.