municipality of Altena
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The municipality of Altena is a local government area in the Dutch province of North Brabant, formed by the merger of several former municipalities on the riverine island region between the Maas and Merwede rivers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| municipality of Altena canonical | 2 |
| Altena municipality | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6844992 — 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: municipality of Altena Context triple: [Werkendam, partOf, municipality of Altena]
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A.
Altena
Altena is a town in western Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia region, known for its historic hilltop castle and role in the industrial and cultural history of the Sauerland area.
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B.
Altenau
Altenau is a small town in Germany’s Harz Mountains, historically known as a mining and spa resort surrounded by dense forests and mountain landscapes.
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C.
municipality of Erzhausen
The municipality of Erzhausen is a local administrative community in Germany that functions as a self-governing town with its own elected municipal council.
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D.
Samtgemeinde Ahlden
Samtgemeinde Ahlden is a collective municipality in Lower Saxony, Germany, comprising Ahlden and several surrounding villages for shared local administration.
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E.
Borken district
Borken district is a rural administrative district in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany, known for its small towns, agriculture, and proximity to the Dutch border.
- 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: municipality of Altena Target entity description: The municipality of Altena is a local government area in the Dutch province of North Brabant, formed by the merger of several former municipalities on the riverine island region between the Maas and Merwede rivers.
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A.
Altena
Altena is a town in western Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia region, known for its historic hilltop castle and role in the industrial and cultural history of the Sauerland area.
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B.
Altenau
Altenau is a small town in Germany’s Harz Mountains, historically known as a mining and spa resort surrounded by dense forests and mountain landscapes.
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C.
municipality of Erzhausen
The municipality of Erzhausen is a local administrative community in Germany that functions as a self-governing town with its own elected municipal council.
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D.
Samtgemeinde Ahlden
Samtgemeinde Ahlden is a collective municipality in Lower Saxony, Germany, comprising Ahlden and several surrounding villages for shared local administration.
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E.
Borken district
Borken district is a rural administrative district in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany, known for its small towns, agriculture, and proximity to the Dutch border.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
local government area
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode |
0183
ⓘ
0416 ⓘ 073 ⓘ |
| capital | Almkerk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsSettlement |
Almkerk
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Andel NERFINISHED ⓘ Babyloniënbroek NERFINISHED ⓘ Drongelen NERFINISHED ⓘ Dussen NERFINISHED ⓘ Genderen NERFINISHED ⓘ Giessen NERFINISHED ⓘ Hank NERFINISHED ⓘ Meeuwen NERFINISHED ⓘ Nieuwendijk NERFINISHED ⓘ Nieuwendijk (NB) NERFINISHED ⓘ Rijswijk (NB) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sleeuwijk NERFINISHED ⓘ Uitwijk NERFINISHED ⓘ Veen NERFINISHED ⓘ Waardhuizen NERFINISHED ⓘ Werkendam NERFINISHED ⓘ Woudrichem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of the Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedByMergerOf |
Aalburg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Werkendam NERFINISHED ⓘ Woudrichem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | municipal council ⓘ |
| hasBorderWith |
Gelderland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
South Holland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 2019-01-01 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Land van Heusden en Altena
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Netherlands ⓘ North Brabant ⓘ river island region between the Maas and Merwede rivers ⓘ |
| locatedInNUTS3Region | West Noord-Brabant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | Central European Summer Time ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
| partOf | province of North Brabant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCodeRange | 4200–4289 ⓘ |
| riverIslandBetween |
Maas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Merwede NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traversedBy |
Afgedamde Maas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bergsche Maas NERFINISHED ⓘ Merwede 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: municipality of Altena Description of subject: The municipality of Altena is a local government area in the Dutch province of North Brabant, formed by the merger of several former municipalities on the riverine island region between the Maas and Merwede rivers.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Altena municipality