Oberwil (BL)
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Oberwil (BL) is a municipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in northwestern Switzerland, located in the suburban area southwest of Basel.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oberwil (BL) canonical | 1 |
| Oberwil (Basel-Landschaft) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5562608 — 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: Oberwil (BL) Context triple: [Reinach (BL), hasNeighboringMunicipality, Oberwil (BL)]
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A.
Niederwil (Solothurn)
Niederwil (Solothurn) is a small municipality in the canton of Solothurn in northwestern Switzerland, known for its rural character and proximity to the Jura foothills.
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B.
Oberdorf (SO)
Oberdorf (SO) is a municipality in the canton of Solothurn in northwestern Switzerland, situated in a hilly area near the Jura Mountains.
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C.
Volketswil
Volketswil is a municipality in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland, known for its residential character and proximity to the city of Zurich.
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D.
Oberwald
Oberwald is a Swiss alpine village in the canton of Valais, known as a gateway to high mountain passes and scenic railway routes in the upper Rhône valley.
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E.
Walchwil
Walchwil is a picturesque Swiss municipality in the canton of Zug, known for its scenic location on the eastern shore of Lake Zug and views of the surrounding Alps.
- 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: Oberwil (BL) Target entity description: Oberwil (BL) is a municipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in northwestern Switzerland, located in the suburban area southwest of Basel.
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A.
Niederwil (Solothurn)
Niederwil (Solothurn) is a small municipality in the canton of Solothurn in northwestern Switzerland, known for its rural character and proximity to the Jura foothills.
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B.
Oberdorf (SO)
Oberdorf (SO) is a municipality in the canton of Solothurn in northwestern Switzerland, situated in a hilly area near the Jura Mountains.
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C.
Volketswil
Volketswil is a municipality in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland, known for its residential character and proximity to the city of Zurich.
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D.
Oberwald
Oberwald is a Swiss alpine village in the canton of Valais, known as a gateway to high mountain passes and scenic railway routes in the upper Rhône valley.
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E.
Walchwil
Walchwil is a picturesque Swiss municipality in the canton of Zug, known for its scenic location on the eastern shore of Lake Zug and views of the surrounding Alps.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipality ⓘ |
| canton | Basel-Landschaft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coatOfArmsDescription | red lion on yellow background with blue border (simplified description) ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| currency | Swiss franc ⓘ |
| distanceTo | approximately 6–7 km from Basel city centre ⓘ |
| district | Arlesheim District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 300 metres ⓘ |
| governingBody | municipal council of Oberwil (BL) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalityCode | 2770 ⓘ |
| hasNeighboringMunicipality |
Allschwil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Basel NERFINISHED ⓘ Biel-Benken NERFINISHED ⓘ Binningen NERFINISHED ⓘ Bottmingen NERFINISHED ⓘ Ettingen NERFINISHED ⓘ Therwil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasParishChurch |
Reformed parish church of Oberwil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roman Catholic parish church of Oberwil ⓘ |
| hasPrimarySchool | true ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransportOperator | Baselland Transport (BLT) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailConnectionTo | Basel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSportsClub | FC Oberwil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTramConnectionTo | Basel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTramLine | BLT line 10 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTwinTown | Le Haillan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfGovernment | Swiss communal government ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.oberwil.ch ⓘ |
| ISO3166-2 | CH-BL ⓘ |
| languageMajority | German-speaking ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
northwestern Switzerland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
suburban area southwest of Basel ⓘ |
| locatedInGeographicRegion | Swiss Plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Basel metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInValley | Birsig valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Basel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | German ⓘ |
| partOf |
Arlesheim District
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Canton of Basel-Landschaft NERFINISHED ⓘ Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 4104 ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicCharacter | residential suburb ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| twinTownCountry | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | true ⓘ |
| vehicleRegistrationCode | BL ⓘ |
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: Oberwil (BL) Description of subject: Oberwil (BL) is a municipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in northwestern Switzerland, located in the suburban area southwest of Basel.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Oberwil (Basel-Landschaft)