Grandson

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Grandson is a historic Swiss town in the canton of Vaud, known for its medieval castle and picturesque setting near Lake Neuchâtel.

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Label Occurrences
Grandson canonical 8

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf battle
municipality
town
canton Vaud
coatOfArms municipal coat of arms of Grandson
country Switzerland
district Jura-Nord vaudois
elevation 447 metres
governingBody municipal council of Grandson
hasCastle Grandson Castle
hasEconomicActivity services
tourism
viticulture
hasHeritageSite Grandson Castle
hasHistoricalEvent Battle of Grandson
hasLakeShore Lake Neuchâtel
hasLandmark historic church of Grandson
lakeside promenade
medieval old town
hasMunicipalityCode 5561
hasPopulation over 3000 inhabitants (approximate, 2020s)
hasRailwayLine Yverdon–Neuchâtel railway line
hasTransport railway station
hasWebsite https://www.grandson.ch
heritageDesignation part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
heritageStatus Swiss heritage site of national significance
knownFor historic town centre
medieval castle
picturesque lakeside setting
locatedIn Broye–Léman region
Vully region
surface form: Lake Neuchâtel region

Romandy
western Switzerland
locatedNear Yverdon-les-Bains
locatedOn Lake Neuchâtel
neighboringMunicipality Val-de-Ruz
surface form: Bonvillars

Concise
Fiez
Giez
Onnens (VD)
Valeyres-sous-Montagny
officialLanguage French
partOf Burgundian Wars
postalCode 1422
region Jura Mountains
surface form: Jura foothills
timeZone Central European Time
timeZoneDST Central European Summer Time
tookPlaceIn Grandson self-linksurface differs

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: Grandson
Description of subject: Grandson is a historic Swiss town in the canton of Vaud, known for its medieval castle and picturesque setting near Lake Neuchâtel.

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lake Neuchâtel adjacentTown Grandson
Grandson tookPlaceIn Grandson self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Battle of Grandson
Jura-Nord vaudois contains Grandson
Grandson Castle locatedIn Grandson
Giez locatedNear Grandson