Grave, Netherlands
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Grave is a historic town in the Dutch province of North Brabant, known for its well-preserved medieval center and fortifications along the Maas River.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Grave, Duchy of Guelders | 5 |
| Grave, Netherlands canonical | 2 |
| Grave, North Brabant | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T970991 — 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: Grave, Netherlands Context triple: [Graafs Museum, location, Grave, Netherlands]
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A.
Zundert, Netherlands
Zundert, Netherlands is a small Dutch town in North Brabant best known as the birthplace of painter Vincent van Gogh.
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B.
Drenthe, Netherlands
Drenthe, Netherlands is a rural northeastern Dutch province known for its prehistoric dolmen tombs, extensive nature reserves, and quiet agricultural landscapes.
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C.
Asten, Netherlands
Asten is a town in the Dutch province of North Brabant known for its bell foundry and carillon manufacturing industry.
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D.
Zeewolde, Netherlands
Zeewolde, Netherlands is a small municipality in the province of Flevoland known for its modern planned layout and role as a business location for companies such as sports car manufacturer Spyker.
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E.
Hoek van Holland
Hoek van Holland is a coastal town in the Netherlands known for its North Sea beaches and its strategic location at the mouth of the New Waterway shipping canal.
- 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: Grave, Netherlands Target entity description: Grave is a historic town in the Dutch province of North Brabant, known for its well-preserved medieval center and fortifications along the Maas River.
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A.
Zundert, Netherlands
Zundert, Netherlands is a small Dutch town in North Brabant best known as the birthplace of painter Vincent van Gogh.
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B.
Drenthe, Netherlands
Drenthe, Netherlands is a rural northeastern Dutch province known for its prehistoric dolmen tombs, extensive nature reserves, and quiet agricultural landscapes.
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C.
Asten, Netherlands
Asten is a town in the Dutch province of North Brabant known for its bell foundry and carillon manufacturing industry.
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D.
Zeewolde, Netherlands
Zeewolde, Netherlands is a small municipality in the province of Flevoland known for its modern planned layout and role as a business location for companies such as sports car manufacturer Spyker.
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E.
Hoek van Holland
Hoek van Holland is a coastal town in the Netherlands known for its North Sea beaches and its strategic location at the mouth of the New Waterway shipping canal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality in the Netherlands
ⓘ
town in the Netherlands ⓘ |
| connectedByBridgeTo | Nederasselt ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| crossedBy | Maas-Waal Canal (nearby regionally connected) ⓘ |
| hasArea | about 3.0 square kilometres (built-up area) ⓘ |
| hasCityRightsSince | 1233 ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLatitude | 51.759 ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateLongitude | 5.738 ⓘ |
| hasDialingCode | 0486 ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
small-scale services
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| hasEvent |
historical reenactments
ⓘ
local cultural festivals ⓘ |
| hasFortifications |
bastions
ⓘ
medieval city walls ⓘ moats ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | protected townscape ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Canons at the Maas quay
ⓘ
Hampoort (city gate) ⓘ
linked to:
Hampoort city gate
John S. Thompsonbrug ⓘ St. Elisabethkerk ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalMerger | merged into Land van Cuijk ⓘ |
| hasPopulation | approximately 8700 (town) ⓘ |
| hasPopulationDate | 2021 ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 5361 ⓘ |
| hasTransportConnection | regional bus services ⓘ |
| knownFor |
historic fortifications
ⓘ
role in various sieges ⓘ well-preserved medieval center ⓘ |
| language | Dutch ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Land van Cuijk
ⓘ
North Brabant ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Meierij van ’s-Hertogenbosch (historical)
ⓘ
linked to:
Meierij van ’s-Hertogenbosch
|
| locatedOnRiver | Maas ⓘ |
| municipalMergerDate | 2022 ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Nijmegen
ⓘ
’s-Hertogenbosch ⓘ |
| partOf |
Duchy of Brabant (historical)
ⓘ
linked to:
Duchy of Brabant
|
| playedRoleIn |
Eighty Years War
ⓘ
linked to:
Eighty Years' War
Franco-Dutch War ⓘ Second World War ⓘ
linked to:
World War II
War of the First Coalition ⓘ |
| previouslyIncludedVillage |
Escharen
ⓘ
Gassel ⓘ Velp, North Brabant ⓘ
linked to:
Velp (North Brabant)
|
| provincialCapital |
’s-Hertogenbosch (of North Brabant)
ⓘ
linked to:
’s-Hertogenbosch
|
| wasBesiegedIn |
1674
ⓘ
1794 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Grave, Netherlands Description of subject: Grave is a historic town in the Dutch province of North Brabant, known for its well-preserved medieval center and fortifications along the Maas River.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mary of Guelders, Queen of Scots
linked to: Grave, Netherlands
subject linked to:
St. Lambertuskerk
linked to: Grave, Netherlands
subject linked to:
Mary, Queen of Scots (consort of James II)
linked to: Grave, Netherlands
linked to: Grave, Netherlands
linked to: Grave, Netherlands
linked to: Grave, Netherlands