Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland
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The Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland is the national court responsible for adjudicating disputes involving federal administrative law, such as immigration, public procurement, and social insurance matters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7698870 — 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: Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland Context triple: [Tribunal fédéral, handlesAppealsFrom, Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland]
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A.
Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland
The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland is the country’s highest judicial authority, serving as the final court of appeal and ensuring the uniform application of Swiss federal law.
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B.
Court of Appeal of Ticino
The Court of Appeal of Ticino is the highest regional appellate court in the Swiss canton of Ticino, responsible for reviewing and ruling on appeals from lower courts within the canton’s judicial system.
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C.
Aargau cantonal court
The Aargau cantonal court is the highest judicial authority of the Canton of Aargau in Switzerland, responsible for handling major civil, criminal, and administrative cases within the canton.
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D.
Cantonal Court of Bern
The Cantonal Court of Bern is the highest judicial authority in the Swiss canton of Bern, responsible for overseeing and adjudicating major civil, criminal, and administrative cases within the canton.
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E.
Appellationsgericht Basel-Stadt
Appellationsgericht Basel-Stadt is the highest cantonal court of the Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt, serving primarily as its court of appeal.
- 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: Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland Target entity description: The Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland is the national court responsible for adjudicating disputes involving federal administrative law, such as immigration, public procurement, and social insurance matters.
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A.
Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland
The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland is the country’s highest judicial authority, serving as the final court of appeal and ensuring the uniform application of Swiss federal law.
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B.
Court of Appeal of Ticino
The Court of Appeal of Ticino is the highest regional appellate court in the Swiss canton of Ticino, responsible for reviewing and ruling on appeals from lower courts within the canton’s judicial system.
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C.
Aargau cantonal court
The Aargau cantonal court is the highest judicial authority of the Canton of Aargau in Switzerland, responsible for handling major civil, criminal, and administrative cases within the canton.
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D.
Cantonal Court of Bern
The Cantonal Court of Bern is the highest judicial authority in the Swiss canton of Bern, responsible for overseeing and adjudicating major civil, criminal, and administrative cases within the canton.
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E.
Appellationsgericht Basel-Stadt
Appellationsgericht Basel-Stadt is the highest cantonal court of the Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt, serving primarily as its court of appeal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative court
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court of law ⓘ federal court ⓘ |
| appealTo | Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| countrySeat | Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employs |
court clerks
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federal judges ⓘ |
| establishedBy |
Federal Administrative Court Act
NERFINISHED
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Federal Constitution of Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function |
ensures uniform application of federal administrative law
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hears appeals against decisions of federal departments and agencies ⓘ provides judicial review of federal administrative acts ⓘ |
| governingBody | plenary assembly of judges ⓘ |
| hasChambers |
economic affairs chambers
NERFINISHED
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infrastructure and environment chambers ⓘ public law chambers ⓘ social insurance chambers ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage |
French
ⓘ
German ⓘ Italian ⓘ |
| higherCourt | Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Swiss federal administrative law
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agricultural law ⓘ asylum law ⓘ aviation law ⓘ competition law ⓘ customs law ⓘ data protection law ⓘ environmental law ⓘ immigration law ⓘ infrastructure and transport law ⓘ public health law ⓘ public procurement law ⓘ public service employment disputes ⓘ social insurance law ⓘ tax law ⓘ telecommunications law ⓘ |
| legalSystem | civil law system ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
St. Gallen
NERFINISHED
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canton of St. Gallen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Swiss federal judiciary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | federal appeals commissions ⓘ |
| role |
acts as a court of first instance in many federal administrative matters
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adjudicates disputes involving decisions of Swiss federal authorities ⓘ issues binding judgments on federal administrative disputes ⓘ protects rights of individuals and entities in administrative proceedings ⓘ reviews legality of federal administrative decisions ⓘ |
| website | https://www.bvger.ch ⓘ |
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: Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland Description of subject: The Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland is the national court responsible for adjudicating disputes involving federal administrative law, such as immigration, public procurement, and social insurance matters.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.