Regnitz
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The Regnitz is a river in the German state of Bavaria that flows through cities such as Erlangen and Bamberg before joining the Main River.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Regnitz canonical | 34 |
| Regnitz River | 31 |
| Regnitz river system | 2 |
| Regnitz valley | 2 |
| Regnitz River at Fürth | 1 |
| Regnitz Valley | 1 |
| Regnitz basin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T810865 — 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: Regnitz Context triple: [Middle Franconia, hasMajorRiver, Regnitz]
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A.
Saale
The Saale is a major river in central Germany that flows through the states of Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt, and Bavaria before joining the Elbe.
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B.
Neckar
The Neckar is a significant river in southwestern Germany that flows through cities like Stuttgart and Heidelberg before joining the Rhine.
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C.
Kinzig
The Kinzig is a river in southwestern Germany that flows through the Black Forest region before joining the Rhine.
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D.
Werra
The Werra is a major river in central Germany that forms one of the two headstreams of the Weser.
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E.
Elbe
The Elbe is one of Central Europe's major rivers, flowing from the Czech Republic through Germany to the North Sea and serving as an important waterway for transport, industry, and agriculture.
- 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: Regnitz Target entity description: The Regnitz is a river in the German state of Bavaria that flows through cities such as Erlangen and Bamberg before joining the Main River.
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A.
Saale
The Saale is a major river in central Germany that flows through the states of Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt, and Bavaria before joining the Elbe.
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B.
Neckar
The Neckar is a significant river in southwestern Germany that flows through cities like Stuttgart and Heidelberg before joining the Rhine.
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C.
Kinzig
The Kinzig is a river in southwestern Germany that flows through the Black Forest region before joining the Rhine.
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D.
Werra
The Werra is a major river in central Germany that forms one of the two headstreams of the Weser.
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E.
Elbe
The Elbe is one of Central Europe's major rivers, flowing from the Czech Republic through Germany to the North Sea and serving as an important waterway for transport, industry, and agriculture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Regnitz Description of subject: The Regnitz is a river in the German state of Bavaria that flows through cities such as Erlangen and Bamberg before joining the Main River.
Referenced by (72)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
River Main
linked to: Regnitz
subject linked to:
northern Bavaria
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subject linked to:
Obere Brücke in Bamberg
linked to: Regnitz