Vechigen
E437440
Vechigen is a rural municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, known for its scattered settlements and agricultural landscape near the city of Bern.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vechigen canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4392917 — 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: Vechigen Context triple: [Bern-Mittelland administrative district, contains, Vechigen]
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A.
Eggersriet
Eggersriet is a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen in northeastern Switzerland, situated in a hilly area overlooking Lake Constance.
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B.
Weisselberg
Weisselberg is a surname most prominently associated with Allen Weisselberg, the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization.
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C.
Oderberg
Oderberg is a small historic town in northeastern Germany near the Oder River, known for its scenic natural surroundings and proximity to the Polish border.
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D.
Luterbach
Luterbach is a municipality in the canton of Solothurn in northwestern Switzerland, known for its residential character and proximity to the Aare River.
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E.
Vogelthal
Vogelthal is a small village in Bavaria, Germany, known as the birthplace of World War II tank commander Michael Wittmann.
- 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: Vechigen Target entity description: Vechigen is a rural municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, known for its scattered settlements and agricultural landscape near the city of Bern.
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A.
Eggersriet
Eggersriet is a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen in northeastern Switzerland, situated in a hilly area overlooking Lake Constance.
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B.
Weisselberg
Weisselberg is a surname most prominently associated with Allen Weisselberg, the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization.
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C.
Oderberg
Oderberg is a small historic town in northeastern Germany near the Oder River, known for its scenic natural surroundings and proximity to the Polish border.
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D.
Luterbach
Luterbach is a municipality in the canton of Solothurn in northwestern Switzerland, known for its residential character and proximity to the Aare River.
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E.
Vogelthal
Vogelthal is a small village in Bavaria, Germany, known as the birthplace of World War II tank commander Michael Wittmann.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
rural municipality ⓘ |
| canton | Canton of Bern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Canton of Bern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceTo | Bern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceToBern_km | approximately 10 km ⓘ |
| elevation | 585 m ⓘ |
| governingBody | municipal council of Vechigen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAgriculturalCharacter | true ⓘ |
| hasCoatOfArms | coat of arms of Vechigen ⓘ |
| hasLocality |
Boll
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Radelfingen (Vechigen) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sinneringen NERFINISHED ⓘ Utzigen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalityCode | 0629 ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryEconomicActivity | agriculture ⓘ |
| hasRegionType | rural area ⓘ |
| hasSettlementPattern | dispersed farmsteads ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | scattered settlements ⓘ |
| hasTransportConnection |
nearby railway stations in neighboring municipalities
ⓘ
regional bus services to Bern ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.vechigen.ch ⓘ |
| landUse | agricultural landscape ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Canton of Bern
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Switzerland ⓘ |
| locatedInCountrySubdivision | Bern-Mittelland District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Bern-Mittelland administrative district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | city of Bern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighboringMunicipality |
Hasle bei Burgdorf
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Krauchthal NERFINISHED ⓘ Lützelflüh NERFINISHED ⓘ Muri bei Bern NERFINISHED ⓘ Oberburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Stettlen NERFINISHED ⓘ Worb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | German ⓘ |
| partOf | administrative district of Bern-Mittelland ⓘ |
| postalCode |
3067
ⓘ
3068 ⓘ 3069 ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| usesISOCodeRegion | CH-BE ⓘ |
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: Vechigen Description of subject: Vechigen is a rural municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, known for its scattered settlements and agricultural landscape near the city of Bern.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bern-Mittelland administrative district