Neu-Ulm
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Neu-Ulm is a Bavarian town in southern Germany located across the Danube River from the city of Ulm, forming a closely linked urban area with it.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Neu-Ulm canonical | 44 |
| Neu-Ulm (district) | 1 |
| Neu-Ulm with other Bavarian towns | 1 |
| Ulm/Neu-Ulm urban area | 1 |
| city of Neu-Ulm | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T490147 — 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: Neu-Ulm Context triple: [Ulm, borders, Neu-Ulm]
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A.
Landsberg am Lech
Landsberg am Lech is a historic Bavarian town in southern Germany known for its medieval old town, picturesque setting on the Lech River, and its association with the nearby Landsberg Prison.
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B.
Rosenheim
Rosenheim is a town in Upper Bavaria, Germany, known as a regional economic and transportation hub near the Alps.
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C.
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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D.
Ingolstadt
Ingolstadt is a historic city in southern Germany known for its medieval architecture, university tradition, and role as a major hub of the automotive industry.
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E.
Würzburg
Würzburg is a historic city in southern Germany known for its baroque architecture, the Würzburg Residence palace, and its location along the Main River in the Franconia wine region.
- 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: Neu-Ulm Target entity description: Neu-Ulm is a Bavarian town in southern Germany located across the Danube River from the city of Ulm, forming a closely linked urban area with it.
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A.
Landsberg am Lech
Landsberg am Lech is a historic Bavarian town in southern Germany known for its medieval old town, picturesque setting on the Lech River, and its association with the nearby Landsberg Prison.
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B.
Rosenheim
Rosenheim is a town in Upper Bavaria, Germany, known as a regional economic and transportation hub near the Alps.
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C.
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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D.
Ingolstadt
Ingolstadt is a historic city in southern Germany known for its medieval architecture, university tradition, and role as a major hub of the automotive industry.
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E.
Würzburg
Würzburg is a historic city in southern Germany known for its baroque architecture, the Würzburg Residence palace, and its location along the Main River in the Franconia wine region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Ulm ⓘ |
| administrativeRegion | Regierungsbezirk Schwaben ⓘ |
| areaCode | 0731 ⓘ |
| belongsTo | European Union ⓘ |
| borderedByRiver |
Danube River
ⓘ
linked to:
Danube
|
| climate | temperate oceanic/continental transition climate ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| coordinates | approximately 48.39°N 10.01°E ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | about 470 metres ⓘ |
| formsUrbanAreaWith | Ulm ⓘ |
| hasIndustrialArea | local industrial and commercial zones ⓘ |
| hasMayor | local head of government (mayor) of Neu-Ulm ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalStatusSince | 19th century ⓘ |
| hasPopulation | tens of thousands of inhabitants ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransportIntegration | integrated with Ulm/Neu-Ulm transport network ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation | Neu-Ulm station ⓘ |
| hasUniversity | Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences ⓘ |
| isSeatOf | district of Neu-Ulm ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| localDialectRegion |
Swabian German
ⓘ
linked to:
Alemannic German
|
| locatedIn |
Bavaria
ⓘ
Swabia ⓘ
linked to:
Swabia (Bavaria)
southern Germany ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Danube ⓘ |
| locatedOppositeBankOf | Ulm across the Danube ⓘ |
| partOf | Neu-Ulm district ⓘ |
| postalCode |
89231
ⓘ
89231–89233 ⓘ 89233 ⓘ |
| regionalRole | local center in Bavarian Swabia ⓘ |
| riverSeparatingFrom |
Danube River separates Neu-Ulm from Ulm
ⓘ
linked to:
Ulm–Neu-Ulm Danube bridge line
|
| roadNetwork | connected to German federal highways ⓘ |
| state |
Free State of Bavaria
ⓘ
linked to:
Bavaria
|
| timeZone | CET ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CEST ⓘ |
| transportConnection | connected to Ulm by bridges over the Danube ⓘ |
| twinTown |
Kecel
ⓘ
New Ulm, Minnesota ⓘ Pécsvárad ⓘ Trissino ⓘ |
| urbanArea |
Ulm/Neu-Ulm metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Ulm
|
| urbanFunction | residential and commercial suburb of Ulm ⓘ |
| vehicleRegistrationCode | NU ⓘ |
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: Neu-Ulm Description of subject: Neu-Ulm is a Bavarian town in southern Germany located across the Danube River from the city of Ulm, forming a closely linked urban area with it.
Referenced by (48)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Neu-Ulm
subject linked to:
municipality of Blaustein
subject linked to:
Bundesstraße 28 (nearby)
subject linked to:
Iller River
subject linked to:
Iller River
linked to: Neu-Ulm
linked to: Neu-Ulm
linked to: Neu-Ulm
subject linked to:
Illertissen, Bavaria, West Germany
subject linked to:
River Iller