Regensburg
E127596
Regensburg is a historic city in southeastern Germany known for its well-preserved medieval old town on the Danube River.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Regensburg canonical | 229 |
| Regensburg, Germany | 15 |
| city of Regensburg | 5 |
| Ratisbon | 4 |
| City of Regensburg | 2 |
| Ratisbon (Regensburg) | 1 |
| Regensburg Old Town | 1 |
| Regensburg city administration | 1 |
| Regensburg city center | 1 |
| Regensburg city council | 1 |
| Regensburg old town | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T318126 — 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: Regensburg Context triple: [Bavaria, containsCity, Regensburg]
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A.
Augsburg
Augsburg is one of Germany’s oldest cities, a historic Bavarian center known for its rich Renaissance heritage and role as a major medieval trading hub.
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B.
Ulm
Ulm is a historic city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, best known for its towering Gothic cathedral and as the birthplace of physicist Albert Einstein.
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C.
Nuremberg
Nuremberg is a historic city in Bavaria, Germany, known for its medieval architecture and its role as the site of the post–World War II war crimes tribunals.
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D.
Munich
Munich is the capital and largest city of the German state of Bavaria, renowned for its rich cultural scene, historic architecture, and the annual Oktoberfest beer festival.
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E.
Dresden
Dresden is a historic cultural and economic center in eastern Germany, renowned for its baroque architecture, art collections, and reconstruction after World War II.
- 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: Regensburg Target entity description: Regensburg is a historic city in southeastern Germany known for its well-preserved medieval old town on the Danube River.
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A.
Augsburg
Augsburg is one of Germany’s oldest cities, a historic Bavarian center known for its rich Renaissance heritage and role as a major medieval trading hub.
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B.
Ulm
Ulm is a historic city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, best known for its towering Gothic cathedral and as the birthplace of physicist Albert Einstein.
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C.
Nuremberg
Nuremberg is a historic city in Bavaria, Germany, known for its medieval architecture and its role as the site of the post–World War II war crimes tribunals.
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D.
Munich
Munich is the capital and largest city of the German state of Bavaria, renowned for its rich cultural scene, historic architecture, and the annual Oktoberfest beer festival.
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E.
Dresden
Dresden is a historic cultural and economic center in eastern Germany, renowned for its baroque architecture, art collections, and reconstruction after World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Regensburg Description of subject: Regensburg is a historic city in southeastern Germany known for its well-preserved medieval old town on the Danube River.
Referenced by (261)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tempe, Arizona, USA
linked to: Regensburg
subject linked to:
southern Germany
subject linked to:
southern Germany
linked to: Regensburg
linked to: Regensburg
linked to: Regensburg
linked to: Regensburg
subject linked to:
eastern Bavaria