HGW
E603428
HGW is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the city of Greifswald in northeastern Germany.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HGW canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6590118 — 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: HGW Context triple: [Greifswald, vehicleRegistrationCode, HGW]
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A.
WGW
WGW is the National Rail station code for Wigan Wallgate railway station in Greater Manchester, England.
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B.
HGS
HGS is the National Rail station code assigned to Hastings railway station in East Sussex, England.
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C.
HG
HG is the postcode area designation covering Harrogate and surrounding parts of North Yorkshire, England.
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D.
GWW
GWW is the IATA airport code for Gatow Airfield, a former military airfield in Berlin, Germany.
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E.
GWA
GWA is the public utility agency responsible for providing water and wastewater services across the island of Guam.
- 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: HGW Target entity description: HGW is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the city of Greifswald in northeastern Germany.
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A.
WGW
WGW is the National Rail station code for Wigan Wallgate railway station in Greater Manchester, England.
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B.
HGS
HGS is the National Rail station code assigned to Hastings railway station in East Sussex, England.
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C.
HG
HG is the postcode area designation covering Harrogate and surrounding parts of North Yorkshire, England.
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D.
GWW
GWW is the IATA airport code for Gatow Airfield, a former military airfield in Berlin, Germany.
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E.
GWA
GWA is the public utility agency responsible for providing water and wastewater services across the island of Guam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | vehicle registration code ⓘ |
| appliesTo | motor vehicles registered in Greifswald ⓘ |
| category |
road transport in Germany
ⓘ
transport in Greifswald ⓘ |
| codeFormat | three-letter code ⓘ |
| countryCodeSystem | Kfz-Kennzeichen (German vehicle registration system) ⓘ |
| denotes |
city of Greifswald
ⓘ
linked to:
Greifswald
|
| region |
northeastern Germany
ⓘ
linked to:
northern Brandenburg
|
| usedInCity | Greifswald ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | Germany ⓘ |
| usedInState | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: HGW Description of subject: HGW is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the city of Greifswald in northeastern Germany.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.