Aurach
E186094
Aurach is a small river in Bavaria, Germany, that flows through the town of Herzogenaurach and into the Regnitz.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aurach canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1643775 — 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: Aurach Context triple: [Herzogenaurach, locatedOnRiver, Aurach]
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A.
Lindauer
Lindauer is a German surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as science, art, and public life.
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B.
Atzerodt
Atzerodt is the surname of George Atzerodt, a German-born conspirator involved in the plot to assassinate U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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C.
Löhr
Löhr is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals, including figures in military, arts, and public life.
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D.
Strelsau
Strelsau is the fictional capital city of the kingdom of Ruritania in Anthony Hope’s adventure novel "The Prisoner of Zenda."
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E.
Lochau
Lochau is a locality in Germany historically noted as the place where the influential Reformation-era prince Frederick the Wise died.
- 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: Aurach Target entity description: Aurach is a small river in Bavaria, Germany, that flows through the town of Herzogenaurach and into the Regnitz.
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A.
Lindauer
Lindauer is a German surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as science, art, and public life.
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B.
Atzerodt
Atzerodt is the surname of George Atzerodt, a German-born conspirator involved in the plot to assassinate U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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C.
Löhr
Löhr is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals, including figures in military, arts, and public life.
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D.
Strelsau
Strelsau is the fictional capital city of the kingdom of Ruritania in Anthony Hope’s adventure novel "The Prisoner of Zenda."
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E.
Lochau
Lochau is a locality in Germany historically noted as the place where the influential Reformation-era prince Frederick the Wise died.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
river
ⓘ
small river ⓘ |
| basinCountry | Germany ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| drainageBasin |
Regnitz basin
ⓘ
linked to:
Regnitz
|
| drainsInto | Regnitz ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Regnitz ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Bavaria
ⓘ
Herzogenaurach ⓘ Herzogenaurach, Bavaria ⓘ
linked to:
Herzogenaurach
|
| geographicLocation | Herzogenaurach ⓘ |
| hasHydrologicalConnectionTo | Regnitz ⓘ |
| hasMouthInCountry | Germany ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | de:Aurach ⓘ |
| isInAdministrativeTerritory |
Free State of Bavaria
ⓘ
linked to:
Bavaria
|
| locatedIn |
Bavaria
ⓘ
Franconia ⓘ Middle Franconia ⓘ district of Erlangen-Höchstadt ⓘ
linked to:
Erlangen-Höchstadt
southern Germany ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn | Regnitz ⓘ |
| mouthOf | Regnitz ⓘ |
| partOf |
Regnitz river system
ⓘ
linked to:
Regnitz
river network of Bavaria ⓘ |
| region | Bavaria ⓘ |
| riverSystem | Main river basin ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Regnitz ⓘ |
| watercourseType | right tributary ⓘ |
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: Aurach Description of subject: Aurach is a small river in Bavaria, Germany, that flows through the town of Herzogenaurach and into the Regnitz.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Herzogenaurach, Germany