Ecublens
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Ecublens is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland, located near Lausanne and known for hosting parts of the EPFL campus and various research and technology facilities.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ecublens canonical | 1 |
| Ecublens VD | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5701573 — 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: Ecublens Context triple: [SwissTech Convention Center, city, Ecublens]
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A.
Sallanches
Sallanches is a commune in southeastern France’s Haute-Savoie department, situated in the French Alps near Mont Blanc and known as a gateway to major alpine ski resorts.
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B.
Nyons
Nyons is a small town in southeastern France renowned for its olive production and picturesque setting in the Drôme Provençale region.
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C.
Morges
Morges is a Swiss town on the shores of Lake Geneva that historically hosted the founding of the World Wildlife Fund and serves as a local cultural and economic center in the canton of Vaud.
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D.
Bourg-Saint-Maurice
Bourg-Saint-Maurice is a French Alpine town in the Savoie department, known as a gateway to major ski resorts such as Les Arcs in the Graian Alps.
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E.
Estavayer-le-Lac
Estavayer-le-Lac is a historic lakeside town in western Switzerland known for its medieval old town, lakeshore beaches, and water sports on Lake Neuchâtel.
- 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: Ecublens Target entity description: Ecublens is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland, located near Lausanne and known for hosting parts of the EPFL campus and various research and technology facilities.
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A.
Sallanches
Sallanches is a commune in southeastern France’s Haute-Savoie department, situated in the French Alps near Mont Blanc and known as a gateway to major alpine ski resorts.
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B.
Nyons
Nyons is a small town in southeastern France renowned for its olive production and picturesque setting in the Drôme Provençale region.
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C.
Morges
Morges is a Swiss town on the shores of Lake Geneva that historically hosted the founding of the World Wildlife Fund and serves as a local cultural and economic center in the canton of Vaud.
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D.
Bourg-Saint-Maurice
Bourg-Saint-Maurice is a French Alpine town in the Savoie department, known as a gateway to major ski resorts such as Les Arcs in the Graian Alps.
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E.
Estavayer-le-Lac
Estavayer-le-Lac is a historic lakeside town in western Switzerland known for its medieval old town, lakeshore beaches, and water sports on Lake Neuchâtel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipality ⓘ |
| canton | Vaud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coatOfArmsDescription | Azure, a bend wavy argent between two mullets of five or ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| crossedByRiver |
Chavannes River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Venoge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| district | Ouest lausannois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economicSector |
education and research
ⓘ
high-technology industry ⓘ tertiary sector ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 410 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| governingBody | Municipal Council of Ecublens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution |
EPFL Innovation Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
SwissTech Convention Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIndustrialZone | industrial and commercial zones near motorway ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.ecublens.ch/ ⓘ |
| hasPopulationCharacteristic | largely urban ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation | Ecublens-Renens railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTramOrMetroStop |
EPFL metro station
ⓘ
Ecublens VD metro station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportConnection | Lausanne Metro line M1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTwinTown |
Aigrefeuille-d’Aunis, France
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vernio, Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUniversityCampus |
EPFL main campus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
part of University of Lausanne campus ⓘ |
| hostsPartOf |
University of Lausanne campus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne campus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
research facilities
ⓘ
technology facilities ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Greater Lausanne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | western Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Lausanne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | north shore of Lake Geneva ⓘ |
| municipalityCode | 5635 ⓘ |
| neighboringMunicipality |
Bremblens
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bussigny NERFINISHED ⓘ Chavannes-près-Renens NERFINISHED ⓘ Denges NERFINISHED ⓘ Lausanne NERFINISHED ⓘ Renens NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint-Sulpice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | Lausanne metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 1024 ⓘ |
| roadConnection | A1 motorway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Central European Summer Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Ecublens Description of subject: Ecublens is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland, located near Lausanne and known for hosting parts of the EPFL campus and various research and technology facilities.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ecublens VD