Lausanne
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Lausanne is a major Swiss city on the shores of Lake Geneva, known for hosting the International Olympic Committee and its vibrant cultural and academic institutions.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lausanne canonical | 281 |
| Lausanne, Switzerland | 15 |
| City of Lausanne | 10 |
| Lausanne city centre | 5 |
| city of Lausanne | 4 |
| 42 Lausanne | 1 |
| Lausanne city center | 1 |
| Lausanne, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland | 1 |
| Lausanne, Olympic Capital | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T245665 — 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: Lausanne Context triple: [Switzerland, hasCity, Lausanne]
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A.
Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel is a French-speaking canton in western Switzerland known for its lakeside capital, watchmaking industry, and historic architecture.
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B.
Geneva
Geneva is a major Swiss city on Lake Geneva known for hosting numerous international organizations, including United Nations agencies and the Red Cross.
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C.
Fribourg
Fribourg is a bilingual Swiss canton in western Switzerland known for its medieval capital city and location at the cultural boundary between French- and German-speaking regions.
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D.
Carouge
Carouge is a municipality in southwestern Switzerland known for its historic Sardinian-style old town and vibrant cultural scene, located just south of the city of Geneva.
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E.
Geneva metropolitan area
The Geneva metropolitan area is the cross-border urban region centered on the city of Geneva, spanning parts of Switzerland and France and functioning as a major international, financial, and diplomatic 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: Lausanne Target entity description: Lausanne is a major Swiss city on the shores of Lake Geneva, known for hosting the International Olympic Committee and its vibrant cultural and academic institutions.
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A.
Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel is a French-speaking canton in western Switzerland known for its lakeside capital, watchmaking industry, and historic architecture.
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B.
Geneva
Geneva is a major Swiss city on Lake Geneva known for hosting numerous international organizations, including United Nations agencies and the Red Cross.
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C.
Fribourg
Fribourg is a bilingual Swiss canton in western Switzerland known for its medieval capital city and location at the cultural boundary between French- and German-speaking regions.
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D.
Carouge
Carouge is a municipality in southwestern Switzerland known for its historic Sardinian-style old town and vibrant cultural scene, located just south of the city of Geneva.
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E.
Geneva metropolitan area
The Geneva metropolitan area is the cross-border urban region centered on the city of Geneva, spanning parts of Switzerland and France and functioning as a major international, financial, and diplomatic hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
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: Lausanne Description of subject: Lausanne is a major Swiss city on the shores of Lake Geneva, known for hosting the International Olympic Committee and its vibrant cultural and academic institutions.
Referenced by (319)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games
this entity surface form:
Lausanne, Olympic Capital
subject surface form:
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin
this entity surface form:
Lausanne, Switzerland
subject surface form:
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
this entity surface form:
Lausanne, Switzerland
this entity surface form:
Lausanne, Switzerland
subject surface form:
Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne
subject surface form:
Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne
subject surface form:
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lausanne
subject surface form:
Faculty of Arts, University of Lausanne