Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
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Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria was the early 19th-century ruler who transformed Bavaria into a modern kingdom and became its first king after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.
All labels observed (5)
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| Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria canonical | 15 |
| King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria | 2 |
| Maximilian I of Bavaria | 2 |
| Maximilian Joseph | 2 |
| Maximilian IV Joseph of Bavaria | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1779452 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria Context triple: [Kingdom of Bavaria, firstMonarch, Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria]
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Maximilian II of Bavaria
Maximilian II of Bavaria was the King of Bavaria from 1848 to 1864, known for his support of the arts, sciences, and constitutional monarchy during a period of political and cultural modernization.
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Maximilian Philipp Hieronymus of Bavaria
Maximilian Philipp Hieronymus of Bavaria was a Bavarian prince of the House of Wittelsbach who held the title of Duke in Bavaria in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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Ludwig I of Bavaria
Ludwig I of Bavaria was a 19th-century King of Bavaria known for his patronage of the arts, grand neoclassical building projects in Munich, and his tumultuous reign marked by political unrest and eventual abdication.
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Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria
Maximilian III Joseph was the 18th-century Elector of Bavaria whose relatively enlightened rule modernized his territories and marked the end of the Bavarian Wittelsbach electoral line.
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Ludwig III of Bavaria
Ludwig III of Bavaria was the last king of Bavaria, ruling from 1913 until the monarchy’s abolition in 1918 during the German Revolution.
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- 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: Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria Target entity description: Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria was the early 19th-century ruler who transformed Bavaria into a modern kingdom and became its first king after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.
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A.
Maximilian II of Bavaria
Maximilian II of Bavaria was the King of Bavaria from 1848 to 1864, known for his support of the arts, sciences, and constitutional monarchy during a period of political and cultural modernization.
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B.
Maximilian Philipp Hieronymus of Bavaria
Maximilian Philipp Hieronymus of Bavaria was a Bavarian prince of the House of Wittelsbach who held the title of Duke in Bavaria in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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C.
Ludwig I of Bavaria
Ludwig I of Bavaria was a 19th-century King of Bavaria known for his patronage of the arts, grand neoclassical building projects in Munich, and his tumultuous reign marked by political unrest and eventual abdication.
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Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria
Maximilian III Joseph was the 18th-century Elector of Bavaria whose relatively enlightened rule modernized his territories and marked the end of the Bavarian Wittelsbach electoral line.
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Ludwig III of Bavaria
Ludwig III of Bavaria was the last king of Bavaria, ruling from 1913 until the monarchy’s abolition in 1918 during the German Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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Subject: Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria Description of subject: Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria was the early 19th-century ruler who transformed Bavaria into a modern kingdom and became its first king after the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown
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Elector Maximilian IV Joseph of Bavaria
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