arrondissement of Maaseik
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The arrondissement of Maaseik is an administrative district in the Belgian province of Limburg that groups several municipalities, including the town of Maaseik, for local governance and judicial purposes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| arrondissement of Maaseik canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9737293 — 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: arrondissement of Maaseik Context triple: [Maaseik, partOf, arrondissement of Maaseik]
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A.
Arrondissement of Hasselt
The Arrondissement of Hasselt is an administrative district in the Belgian province of Limburg, centered on the city of Hasselt and encompassing several surrounding municipalities.
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B.
Arrondissement of Oudenaarde
The Arrondissement of Oudenaarde is an administrative district in the Belgian province of East Flanders, encompassing several municipalities in the Flemish Ardennes region.
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C.
Arrondissement of Turnhout
The Arrondissement of Turnhout is an administrative district in the Belgian province of Antwerp, centered on the city of Turnhout and comprising several municipalities in the northeastern part of the province.
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D.
Arrondissement of Arlon
The Arrondissement of Arlon is an administrative district in the Belgian province of Luxembourg, centered on the town of Arlon and serving as a local level of government and judicial organization.
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E.
Arrondissement of Dendermonde
The Arrondissement of Dendermonde is an administrative district in the Belgian province of East Flanders that groups together several municipalities, including the city of Dendermonde, for local governance and judicial purposes.
- 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: arrondissement of Maaseik Target entity description: The arrondissement of Maaseik is an administrative district in the Belgian province of Limburg that groups several municipalities, including the town of Maaseik, for local governance and judicial purposes.
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A.
Arrondissement of Hasselt
The Arrondissement of Hasselt is an administrative district in the Belgian province of Limburg, centered on the city of Hasselt and encompassing several surrounding municipalities.
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B.
Arrondissement of Oudenaarde
The Arrondissement of Oudenaarde is an administrative district in the Belgian province of East Flanders, encompassing several municipalities in the Flemish Ardennes region.
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C.
Arrondissement of Turnhout
The Arrondissement of Turnhout is an administrative district in the Belgian province of Antwerp, centered on the city of Turnhout and comprising several municipalities in the northeastern part of the province.
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D.
Arrondissement of Arlon
The Arrondissement of Arlon is an administrative district in the Belgian province of Luxembourg, centered on the town of Arlon and serving as a local level of government and judicial organization.
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E.
Arrondissement of Dendermonde
The Arrondissement of Dendermonde is an administrative district in the Belgian province of East Flanders that groups together several municipalities, including the city of Dendermonde, for local governance and judicial purposes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative arrondissement
ⓘ
arrondissement of Belgium ⓘ |
| administrativeLevel | arrondissement ⓘ |
| borderWithCountry | Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsMunicipality |
As
NERFINISHED
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Bree NERFINISHED ⓘ Dilsen-Stokkem NERFINISHED ⓘ Heusden-Zolder NERFINISHED ⓘ Houthalen-Helchteren NERFINISHED ⓘ Kinrooi NERFINISHED ⓘ Maaseik NERFINISHED ⓘ Meeuwen-Gruitrode NERFINISHED ⓘ Opglabbeek NERFINISHED ⓘ Oudsbergen NERFINISHED ⓘ Zonhoven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Belgium ⓘ |
| governedBy | Governor of Limburg (provincial authority) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAdministrativeCentre | Maaseik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAdministrativeUse |
used for electoral organization
ⓘ
used for policing districts ⓘ used for public service organization ⓘ |
| hasBorderDefinedBy | municipal boundaries in northeastern Limburg ⓘ |
| hasCapital | Maaseik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
judicial administration
ⓘ
local governance ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalRegion | Limburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJudicialRole | organizes courts of first instance at local level ⓘ |
| hasSeat | Maaseik town hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStatisticalUse | used for demographic statistics ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfGovernment | local administrative district ⓘ |
| isSubdivisionTypeOf | NUTS 3 level (approximate) ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Flanders
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Flemish Region NERFINISHED ⓘ Limburg (Belgian province) NERFINISHED ⓘ northeastern Belgium ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Maaseik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Dutch ⓘ |
| partOf | Province of Limburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfJudicialArrondissement | Judicial arrondissement of Limburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Belgian Limburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | Central European Summer Time 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: arrondissement of Maaseik Description of subject: The arrondissement of Maaseik is an administrative district in the Belgian province of Limburg that groups several municipalities, including the town of Maaseik, for local governance and judicial purposes.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.