Oude Gracht
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Oude Gracht is a historic canal running through the center of Utrecht, Netherlands, known for its unique wharf cellars, waterside terraces, and medieval charm.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oude Gracht canonical | 6 |
| Oudegracht | 4 |
| Oude Gracht (Utrecht) | 3 |
| Oudegracht (Utrecht) | 2 |
| Oude Gracht canal | 1 |
| Oudegracht wharf cellars | 1 |
| Tivoli (Oude Gracht) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T423602 — 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: Oude Gracht Context triple: [Utrecht, traversedBy, Oude Gracht]
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A.
Brouwersgracht
Brouwersgracht is a picturesque historic canal in Amsterdam, renowned for its traditional canal houses, bridges, and central location in the city’s canal belt.
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B.
Reguliersgracht
Reguliersgracht is a picturesque canal in Amsterdam’s historic center, renowned for its classic canal houses and iconic series of arched bridges.
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C.
Keizersgracht
Keizersgracht is one of Amsterdam’s main historic canals, renowned for its grand 17th-century canal houses and central role in the city’s UNESCO-listed canal belt.
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D.
Singelgracht
Singelgracht is a historic canal forming part of the outer ring of waterways around Amsterdam’s city center.
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E.
Leidsegracht
Leidsegracht is a historic canal in Amsterdam’s canal belt, known for its picturesque bridges and traditional Dutch canal houses.
- 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: Oude Gracht Target entity description: Oude Gracht is a historic canal running through the center of Utrecht, Netherlands, known for its unique wharf cellars, waterside terraces, and medieval charm.
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A.
Brouwersgracht
Brouwersgracht is a picturesque historic canal in Amsterdam, renowned for its traditional canal houses, bridges, and central location in the city’s canal belt.
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B.
Reguliersgracht
Reguliersgracht is a picturesque canal in Amsterdam’s historic center, renowned for its classic canal houses and iconic series of arched bridges.
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C.
Keizersgracht
Keizersgracht is one of Amsterdam’s main historic canals, renowned for its grand 17th-century canal houses and central role in the city’s UNESCO-listed canal belt.
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D.
Singelgracht
Singelgracht is a historic canal forming part of the outer ring of waterways around Amsterdam’s city center.
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E.
Leidsegracht
Leidsegracht is a historic canal in Amsterdam’s canal belt, known for its picturesque bridges and traditional Dutch canal houses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
canal
ⓘ
historic canal ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
medieval charm
ⓘ
urban canal ⓘ |
| hasPart |
bridges
ⓘ
quays ⓘ waterside terraces ⓘ wharf cellars ⓘ |
| hasStreetAlong | Oudegracht street ⓘ |
| hasUse |
cafés
ⓘ
hospitality venues ⓘ leisure boating ⓘ recreation ⓘ restaurants ⓘ shops ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | protected cityscape (Utrecht inner city) ⓘ |
| isFamousFor |
historic warehouses
ⓘ
medieval urban landscape ⓘ waterside terraces ⓘ wharf cellars ⓘ |
| languageOfToponym | Dutch ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Utrecht
ⓘ
Utrecht ⓘ
surface form:
Utrecht city centre
|
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity | Province of Utrecht ⓘ |
| locatedInContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| toponymMeaning | Old Canal ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| waterwayThrough | historic centre of Utrecht ⓘ |
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: Oude Gracht Description of subject: Oude Gracht is a historic canal running through the center of Utrecht, Netherlands, known for its unique wharf cellars, waterside terraces, and medieval charm.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Oudegracht wharf cellars
this entity surface form:
Tivoli (Oude Gracht)
this entity surface form:
Oudegracht (Utrecht)
this entity surface form:
Oudegracht
this entity surface form:
Oudegracht
subject surface form:
Utrecht Centraal railway station
this entity surface form:
Oudegracht (Utrecht)
subject surface form:
Utrecht
this entity surface form:
Oudegracht
subject surface form:
Utrecht
this entity surface form:
Oudegracht
this entity surface form:
Oude Gracht (Utrecht)
subject surface form:
Neude
this entity surface form:
Oude Gracht (Utrecht)
this entity surface form:
Oude Gracht canal
this entity surface form:
Oude Gracht (Utrecht)