Erstfeld
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Erstfeld is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Uri, situated in a mountainous valley that serves as an important transport corridor through the Alps.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Erstfeld canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7001811 — 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: Erstfeld Context triple: [River Reuss, flowsThrough, Erstfeld]
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A.
Lülsfeld
Lülsfeld is a small municipality in the Schweinfurt district of Lower Franconia in northern Bavaria, Germany.
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B.
Raesfeld
Raesfeld is a municipality in western Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia, known for its historic moated castle and rural surroundings.
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C.
Vellinghausen
Vellinghausen is a village in western Germany known historically as the site of the Battle of Vellinghausen during the Seven Years' War.
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D.
Grafenrheinfeld
Grafenrheinfeld is a small Bavarian town best known for hosting the former Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant on the Main River in northern Germany.
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E.
Hettstadt
Hettstadt is a small municipality in the Würzburg district of Bavaria, Germany, known for its rural character and proximity to the city of Würzburg.
- 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: Erstfeld Target entity description: Erstfeld is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Uri, situated in a mountainous valley that serves as an important transport corridor through the Alps.
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A.
Lülsfeld
Lülsfeld is a small municipality in the Schweinfurt district of Lower Franconia in northern Bavaria, Germany.
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B.
Raesfeld
Raesfeld is a municipality in western Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia, known for its historic moated castle and rural surroundings.
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C.
Vellinghausen
Vellinghausen is a village in western Germany known historically as the site of the Battle of Vellinghausen during the Seven Years' War.
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D.
Grafenrheinfeld
Grafenrheinfeld is a small Bavarian town best known for hosting the former Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant on the Main River in northern Germany.
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E.
Hettstadt
Hettstadt is a small municipality in the Würzburg district of Bavaria, Germany, known for its rural character and proximity to the city of Würzburg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipality ⓘ |
| canton | Uri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cantonCode | UR NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| countryCode | CH ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
construction
ⓘ
railway maintenance ⓘ small-scale industry ⓘ tourism ⓘ transport services ⓘ |
| hasElevation | about 472 metres above sea level ⓘ |
| hasFunction | gateway to the Gotthard Pass ⓘ |
| hasGeographicCoordinateSystem | WGS84 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | traditional alpine village character ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
alpine pastures
ⓘ
forests ⓘ settlement area ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalityCode | 1205 ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | German ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 6472 ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryLanguage | Swiss German NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailInfrastructure | depot and sidings for Gotthard line ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation | Erstfeld railway station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRegionCodeISO3166-2 | CH-UR ⓘ |
| hasRoadConnection |
A2 motorway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
European route E35 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | rural municipality ⓘ |
| hasTopography | steep surrounding mountains ⓘ |
| hasTransportFunction |
major north–south transit point through the Alps
ⓘ
railway operations base for Gotthard route ⓘ |
| isGovernedBy | municipal council of Erstfeld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isLocatedInValley | mountainous valley ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Gotthard axis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gotthard transport corridor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isServedBy |
Gotthard railway line
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Swiss Federal Railways NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alps
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Reuss Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ Swiss Alps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | canton of Uri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Altdorf
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gotthard Base Tunnel north portal NERFINISHED ⓘ Schattdorf NERFINISHED ⓘ Silenen NERFINISHED ⓘ Wassen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Reuss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | true ⓘ |
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: Erstfeld Description of subject: Erstfeld is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Uri, situated in a mountainous valley that serves as an important transport corridor through the Alps.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.