Au (St. Gallen)
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Au (St. Gallen) is a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen in northeastern Switzerland, situated in the Rhine Valley near the Austrian border.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Au (St. Gallen) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5582344 — 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: Au (St. Gallen) Context triple: [St. Margrethen, hasNeighboringMunicipality, Au (St. Gallen)]
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A.
St. Gallen
St. Gallen is a historic city in northeastern Switzerland renowned for its UNESCO-listed Abbey of Saint Gall and rich textile heritage.
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B.
Aarberg, Switzerland
Aarberg, Switzerland is a small historic town in the canton of Bern known for its medieval center and location near the Aare River.
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C.
Aigle, Switzerland
Aigle, Switzerland is a small town in the canton of Vaud known as an international hub for professional cycling and sports administration.
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D.
Wollerau, Switzerland
Wollerau, Switzerland is a wealthy municipality on the shores of Lake Zurich known as a low-tax residence for affluent individuals and companies.
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E.
Gland, Switzerland
Gland, Switzerland is a small town on the shores of Lake Geneva that is best known as a global hub for environmental and conservation organizations.
- 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: Au (St. Gallen) Target entity description: Au (St. Gallen) is a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen in northeastern Switzerland, situated in the Rhine Valley near the Austrian border.
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A.
St. Gallen
St. Gallen is a historic city in northeastern Switzerland renowned for its UNESCO-listed Abbey of Saint Gall and rich textile heritage.
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B.
Aarberg, Switzerland
Aarberg, Switzerland is a small historic town in the canton of Bern known for its medieval center and location near the Aare River.
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C.
Aigle, Switzerland
Aigle, Switzerland is a small town in the canton of Vaud known as an international hub for professional cycling and sports administration.
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D.
Wollerau, Switzerland
Wollerau, Switzerland is a wealthy municipality on the shores of Lake Zurich known as a low-tax residence for affluent individuals and companies.
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E.
Gland, Switzerland
Gland, Switzerland is a small town on the shores of Lake Geneva that is best known as a global hub for environmental and conservation organizations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipality of Switzerland ⓘ |
| area | approximately 4.7 square kilometres ⓘ |
| borderCountry | Austria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Berneck
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hohenems NERFINISHED ⓘ Lustenau NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Margrethen NERFINISHED ⓘ Widnau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canton | St. Gallen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coatOfArmsDescription | Azure a bend wavy argent between two vine branches or fructed gules ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| district | Rheintal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | about 404 metres ⓘ |
| geographicFeature | border municipality on the Rhine ⓘ |
| hasHigherAdministrativeUnit |
Switzerland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
canton of St. Gallen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringMunicipality |
Hohenems (Austria)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lustenau (Austria) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation |
Au SG railway station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Heerbrugg railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRegionType | municipality ⓘ |
| hasSettlement |
Au SG
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Haslach NERFINISHED ⓘ Heerbrugg NERFINISHED ⓘ Hinterburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Monstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Steiniger Tisch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVehicleRegistrationCode | SG NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.au.sg.ch ⓘ |
| isoCodeRegion | CH-SG NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Rhine Valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
northeastern Switzerland ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Swiss Confederation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInEconomicRegion | St. Gallen–Bodensee area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInGeographicRegion | Alpine Rhine Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Austrian border ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Rhine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| municipalityCode | 3231 ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | Central European Summer Time ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | German ⓘ |
| partOf | Wahlkreis Rheintal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 9434 ⓘ |
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: Au (St. Gallen) Description of subject: Au (St. Gallen) is a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen in northeastern Switzerland, situated in the Rhine Valley near the Austrian border.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.