Pleiskirchen
E355736
Pleiskirchen is a small municipality in Bavaria, Germany, known as the birthplace of German Catholic priest and musician Georg Ratzinger, brother of Pope Benedict XVI.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pleiskirchen canonical | 2 |
| Ortsteil Pleiskirchen | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3209159 — 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: Pleiskirchen Context triple: [Georg Ratzinger, placeOfBirth, Pleiskirchen]
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A.
Pfarrkirchen
Pfarrkirchen is a small Bavarian town in southeastern Germany known as the administrative center of the Rottal-Inn district.
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B.
Rottach-Egern
Rottach-Egern is a Bavarian resort town in southern Germany known for its picturesque setting on the shores of Lake Tegernsee and its alpine surroundings.
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C.
Neuötting
Neuötting is a small Bavarian town in southeastern Germany known for its historic town center and location near the Austrian border.
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D.
Eggenfelden
Eggenfelden is a town in southeastern Germany known as a local commercial and cultural center within the region of Lower Bavaria.
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E.
Altötting
Altötting is a Bavarian pilgrimage town renowned as one of Germany’s most important Catholic shrines, centered around the Chapel of Grace and its venerated Black Madonna.
- 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: Pleiskirchen Target entity description: Pleiskirchen is a small municipality in Bavaria, Germany, known as the birthplace of German Catholic priest and musician Georg Ratzinger, brother of Pope Benedict XVI.
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A.
Pfarrkirchen
Pfarrkirchen is a small Bavarian town in southeastern Germany known as the administrative center of the Rottal-Inn district.
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B.
Rottach-Egern
Rottach-Egern is a Bavarian resort town in southern Germany known for its picturesque setting on the shores of Lake Tegernsee and its alpine surroundings.
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C.
Neuötting
Neuötting is a small Bavarian town in southeastern Germany known for its historic town center and location near the Austrian border.
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D.
Eggenfelden
Eggenfelden is a town in southeastern Germany known as a local commercial and cultural center within the region of Lower Bavaria.
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E.
Altötting
Altötting is a Bavarian pilgrimage town renowned as one of Germany’s most important Catholic shrines, centered around the Chapel of Grace and its venerated Black Madonna.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | municipality ⓘ |
| area | 52.23 km² ⓘ |
| areaCode | 08635 ⓘ |
| birthplaceOf |
Georg Ratzinger
ⓘ
brother of Pope Benedict XVI ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | 459 m ⓘ |
| hasLocalGovernment | municipal council of Pleiskirchen ⓘ |
| hasMayor | (current mayor, name not included due to possible change) ⓘ |
| hasReligionTradition | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| hasSubdivision |
Ortsteil Pleiskirchen
ⓘ
linked to:
Pleiskirchen
various Ortsteile ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Altötting (district)
ⓘ
linked to:
Altötting district
Bavaria ⓘ Federal Republic of Germany ⓘ
linked to:
Germany
Upper Bavaria ⓘ southeastern Bavaria ⓘ
linked to:
eastern Bavaria
|
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Altötting
ⓘ
Mühldorf am Inn ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | German ⓘ |
| partOf | Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Reischach ⓘ |
| postalCode | 84568 ⓘ |
| state |
Free State of Bavaria
ⓘ
linked to:
Bavaria
|
| vehicleRegistrationCode | AÖ ⓘ |
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: Pleiskirchen Description of subject: Pleiskirchen is a small municipality in Bavaria, Germany, known as the birthplace of German Catholic priest and musician Georg Ratzinger, brother of Pope Benedict XVI.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Pleiskirchen