Mikuláš of Kadaň
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Mikuláš of Kadaň was a medieval Czech clockmaker and craftsman renowned for his role in creating Prague’s famous astronomical clock.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mikuláš of Kadaň canonical | 2 |
| Mikuláš z Kadaně | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3817587 — 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: Mikuláš of Kadaň Context triple: [Prague Astronomical Clock, designer, Mikuláš of Kadaň]
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A.
Mikolaj
Mikołaj is a given name of Slavic origin that corresponds to the English name Nicholas.
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B.
Miroslav
Miroslav is a common Slavic male given name, notably borne by Slovak ice hockey star Miroslav Šatan.
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C.
Jobst of Moravia
Jobst of Moravia was a powerful late medieval Luxembourg dynasty prince who ruled Moravia and briefly served as King of the Romans during the early 15th century.
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D.
Vilém Slavata of Chlum
Vilém Slavata of Chlum was a prominent Bohemian Catholic nobleman and royal official best known as one of the imperial governors thrown from a window during the 1618 Defenestration of Prague, an event that helped spark the Thirty Years’ War.
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E.
Oldřich
Oldřich is a Czech masculine given name traditionally borne by several notable historical and cultural figures in the Czech lands.
- 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: Mikuláš of Kadaň Target entity description: Mikuláš of Kadaň was a medieval Czech clockmaker and craftsman renowned for his role in creating Prague’s famous astronomical clock.
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A.
Mikolaj
Mikołaj is a given name of Slavic origin that corresponds to the English name Nicholas.
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B.
Miroslav
Miroslav is a common Slavic male given name, notably borne by Slovak ice hockey star Miroslav Šatan.
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C.
Jobst of Moravia
Jobst of Moravia was a powerful late medieval Luxembourg dynasty prince who ruled Moravia and briefly served as King of the Romans during the early 15th century.
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D.
Vilém Slavata of Chlum
Vilém Slavata of Chlum was a prominent Bohemian Catholic nobleman and royal official best known as one of the imperial governors thrown from a window during the 1618 Defenestration of Prague, an event that helped spark the Thirty Years’ War.
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E.
Oldřich
Oldřich is a Czech masculine given name traditionally borne by several notable historical and cultural figures in the Czech lands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
clockmaker
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craftsman ⓘ human ⓘ medieval person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Old Town Hall, Prague
ⓘ
Prague Old Town ⓘ
linked to:
Old Town, Prague
|
| basedIn | Prague ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Jan Šindel ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Bohemia ⓘ |
| culture | Bohemian ⓘ |
| employer |
City of Prague authorities
ⓘ
linked to:
Prague city authorities
|
| ethnicGroup | Czech ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
clockmaking
ⓘ
horology ⓘ mechanical engineering ⓘ |
| genre | astronomical clock mechanisms ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | Czech medieval craftsmanship ⓘ |
| hasNameInNativeLanguage |
Mikuláš z Kadaně
ⓘ
linked to:
Mikuláš of Kadaň
|
| hasWorkLocation |
Old Town Square, Prague
ⓘ
linked to:
Old Town Square
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| influenced | later European clockmakers ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Czech
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advances in large public clock mechanisms
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construction of the Prague astronomical clock mechanism ⓘ one of the earliest complex astronomical clocks in Europe ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Prague astronomical clock
ⓘ
linked to:
Astronomical Clock
astronomical dial of the Prague clock ⓘ
linked to:
Astronomical Clock
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| occupation |
artisan
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clockmaker ⓘ mechanical engineer ⓘ |
| participantIn | construction of the Prague astronomical clock ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kadaň
ⓘ
Kingdom of Bohemia ⓘ |
| placeOfWork |
Old Town Hall in Prague
ⓘ
linked to:
Old Town Hall, Prague
Prague ⓘ |
| residence |
Kadaň
ⓘ
Prague ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
early 15th century
ⓘ
late 14th century ⓘ |
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: Mikuláš of Kadaň Description of subject: Mikuláš of Kadaň was a medieval Czech clockmaker and craftsman renowned for his role in creating Prague’s famous astronomical clock.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Astronomical Clock
subject linked to:
Astronomical Clock
linked to: Mikuláš of Kadaň