Mauer
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Mauer is a small municipality in the Rhine-Neckar district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, known for the discovery of the early human fossil "Mauer 1," the type specimen of Homo heidelbergensis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mauer canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17414193 — 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: Mauer Context triple: [Meckesheim, hasNeighboringMunicipality, Mauer]
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A.
Mauer
Mauer is the surname of Joe Mauer, a former Major League Baseball catcher and first baseman best known for his career with the Minnesota Twins.
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B.
Mohrungen
Mohrungen is a historic town in former East Prussia (now Morąg in northern Poland), known as the birthplace of philosopher and theologian Johann Gottfried Herder.
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C.
Mülbracht
Mülbracht is a historical locality in the Holy Roman Empire known primarily as the birthplace of the Dutch Golden Age engraver and painter Hendrick Goltzius.
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D.
Malinta
Malinta is a barangay (village-level administrative division) of the municipality of Los Baños in the province of Laguna, Philippines.
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E.
Hellenstein
Hellenstein is the historical namesake associated with Hellenstein Castle, a prominent medieval fortress in Heidenheim, Germany.
- 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: Mauer Target entity description: Mauer is a small municipality in the Rhine-Neckar district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, known for the discovery of the early human fossil "Mauer 1," the type specimen of Homo heidelbergensis.
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A.
Mauer
Mauer is the surname of Joe Mauer, a former Major League Baseball catcher and first baseman best known for his career with the Minnesota Twins.
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B.
Mohrungen
Mohrungen is a historic town in former East Prussia (now Morąg in northern Poland), known as the birthplace of philosopher and theologian Johann Gottfried Herder.
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C.
Mülbracht
Mülbracht is a historical locality in the Holy Roman Empire known primarily as the birthplace of the Dutch Golden Age engraver and painter Hendrick Goltzius.
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D.
Malinta
Malinta is a barangay (village-level administrative division) of the municipality of Los Baños in the province of Laguna, Philippines.
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E.
Hellenstein
Hellenstein is the historical namesake associated with Hellenstein Castle, a prominent medieval fortress in Heidenheim, Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.