Vaud
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Vaud is a French-speaking canton in western Switzerland known for its picturesque Lake Geneva shoreline, Alpine scenery, and historic towns such as Lausanne and Montreux.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vaud canonical | 62 |
| canton of Vaud | 3 |
| Canton of Vaud | 2 |
| Lake Geneva region | 2 |
| Vaud Jura | 2 |
| Chablais Vaudois | 1 |
| Pays de Vaud | 1 |
| Vaud Alps and Jura tourism region | 1 |
| Vaud Alps and Jura tourist region | 1 |
| Vaud wine region | 1 |
| Vaudois | 1 |
| Vaudoise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T216310 — 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: Vaud Context triple: [Charlie Chaplin, deathPlace, Vaud]
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A.
Canton of Valais
The Canton of Valais is a mountainous region in southwestern Switzerland known for its Alpine landscapes, vineyards, and major ski resorts such as Zermatt and Verbier.
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B.
Haute-Savoie
Haute-Savoie is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France, renowned for its Alpine landscapes, ski resorts, and proximity to Mont Blanc and the Swiss and Italian borders.
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C.
Montgenèvre
Montgenèvre is a French Alpine ski resort village in the Hautes-Alpes department, known for its high-altitude slopes and location near the Italian border.
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D.
Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel is a French-speaking canton in western Switzerland known for its lakeside capital, watchmaking industry, and historic architecture.
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E.
canton of Geneva
The canton of Geneva is the westernmost Swiss canton, encompassing the city of Geneva and serving as a major international, diplomatic, and financial hub.
- 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: Vaud Target entity description: Vaud is a French-speaking canton in western Switzerland known for its picturesque Lake Geneva shoreline, Alpine scenery, and historic towns such as Lausanne and Montreux.
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A.
Canton of Valais
The Canton of Valais is a mountainous region in southwestern Switzerland known for its Alpine landscapes, vineyards, and major ski resorts such as Zermatt and Verbier.
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B.
Haute-Savoie
Haute-Savoie is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France, renowned for its Alpine landscapes, ski resorts, and proximity to Mont Blanc and the Swiss and Italian borders.
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C.
Montgenèvre
Montgenèvre is a French Alpine ski resort village in the Hautes-Alpes department, known for its high-altitude slopes and location near the Italian border.
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D.
Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel is a French-speaking canton in western Switzerland known for its lakeside capital, watchmaking industry, and historic architecture.
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E.
canton of Geneva
The canton of Geneva is the westernmost Swiss canton, encompassing the city of Geneva and serving as a major international, diplomatic, and financial hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Vaud Description of subject: Vaud is a French-speaking canton in western Switzerland known for its picturesque Lake Geneva shoreline, Alpine scenery, and historic towns such as Lausanne and Montreux.
Referenced by (78)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Murtensee
this entity surface form:
Pays de Vaud
subject surface form:
Rolle
subject surface form:
Pully