Founex
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Founex is a small Swiss municipality on Lake Geneva in the canton of Vaud, known for its residential character and proximity to Geneva.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Founex canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4400133 — 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: Founex Context triple: [Nyon District, containsMunicipality, Founex]
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A.
Ornex
Ornex is a small commune in the Ain department of eastern France, located near the Swiss border in the Pays de Gex region.
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B.
Faventia
Faventia is the ancient Roman name for the Italian city of Faenza, historically known as an important settlement in northern Italy.
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C.
Fillion
Fillion is the surname of Canadian-American actor Nathan Fillion, best known for his leading roles in the television series "Firefly" and "Castle."
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D.
Fuhse
Fuhse is a river in Lower Saxony, Germany, that flows through several towns before joining the Aller River.
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E.
Glespin
Glespin is a small rural village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, situated within the Douglasdale area.
- 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: Founex Target entity description: Founex is a small Swiss municipality on Lake Geneva in the canton of Vaud, known for its residential character and proximity to Geneva.
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A.
Ornex
Ornex is a small commune in the Ain department of eastern France, located near the Swiss border in the Pays de Gex region.
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B.
Faventia
Faventia is the ancient Roman name for the Italian city of Faenza, historically known as an important settlement in northern Italy.
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C.
Fillion
Fillion is the surname of Canadian-American actor Nathan Fillion, best known for his leading roles in the television series "Firefly" and "Castle."
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D.
Fuhse
Fuhse is a river in Lower Saxony, Germany, that flows through several towns before joining the Aller River.
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E.
Glespin
Glespin is a small rural village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, situated within the Douglasdale area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human settlement
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| governedBy | municipal council of Founex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAdministrativeStatus | Swiss municipality ⓘ |
| hasClimate | temperate climate ⓘ |
| hasContinent | Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasElevationType | lowland ⓘ |
| hasEuropeanRegion | Western Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | Swiss local heritage ⓘ |
| hasISO3166-2Code | CH-VD ⓘ |
| hasLakeShore | Lake Geneva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLocalGovernmentType | Swiss municipal government ⓘ |
| hasNeighbouringMunicipality |
Bogis-Bossey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chavannes-de-Bogis NERFINISHED ⓘ Commugny NERFINISHED ⓘ Coppet NERFINISHED ⓘ Tannay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | municipality of Founex official site ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 1297 ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryEconomicFunction | residential community ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryLandUse | residential ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryLanguageGroup | Francophone population ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransportConnectionTo |
Geneva
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRegionCode | VD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasResidentialCharacter | true ⓘ |
| hasSecondaryLandUse |
agricultural land
ⓘ
green spaces ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | village ⓘ |
| hasShoreType | lake shore ⓘ |
| hasWaterBody | Lake Geneva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCommuterTownFor | Geneva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | La Côte region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
canton of Vaud
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
district of Nyon ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Romandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Geneva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Lake Geneva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfStatisticalRegion | Nyon district statistical region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadAccessVia | Swiss road network in canton of Vaud ⓘ |
| subjectToLaw |
cantonal law of Vaud
ⓘ
federal law of Switzerland ⓘ |
| usesTimeZoneAbbreviation |
CEST
ⓘ
CET ⓘ |
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: Founex Description of subject: Founex is a small Swiss municipality on Lake Geneva in the canton of Vaud, known for its residential character and proximity to Geneva.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.