HGB
E617921
HGB is the abbreviation for the German Commercial Code, the central body of law governing commercial transactions and business entities in Germany.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HGB canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6757337 — 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: HGB Context triple: [German Commercial Code, shortName, HGB]
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A.
HBG
HBG was a major Dutch construction and civil engineering company known for large-scale infrastructure and building projects in the Netherlands and abroad.
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B.
BHB
BHB is the stock exchange of the Kingdom of Bahrain, providing a regulated marketplace for trading securities and other financial instruments.
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C.
HBA
HBA is the IATA airport code for Hobart Airport, the main airport serving Hobart in Tasmania, Australia.
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D.
HB
HB is the second-generation Holden Torana small family car series produced in the late 1960s, known for introducing more modern styling and engineering updates over its predecessor.
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E.
HB
HB is the official vehicle registration code used on license plates for the German city-state of Bremen.
- 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: HGB Target entity description: HGB is the abbreviation for the German Commercial Code, the central body of law governing commercial transactions and business entities in Germany.
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A.
HBG
HBG was a major Dutch construction and civil engineering company known for large-scale infrastructure and building projects in the Netherlands and abroad.
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B.
BHB
BHB is the stock exchange of the Kingdom of Bahrain, providing a regulated marketplace for trading securities and other financial instruments.
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C.
HBA
HBA is the IATA airport code for Hobart Airport, the main airport serving Hobart in Tasmania, Australia.
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D.
HB
HB is the official vehicle registration code used on license plates for the German city-state of Bremen.
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E.
HB
HB is the second-generation Holden Torana small family car series produced in the late 1960s, known for introducing more modern styling and engineering updates over its predecessor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German commercial code
ⓘ
commercial code ⓘ statute ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor |
Handelsgesetzbuch
ⓘ
linked to:
German Commercial Code
|
| appliesTo |
commercial companies in Germany
ⓘ
merchants in Germany ⓘ |
| basedOn | civil law tradition ⓘ |
| contains |
general provisions on merchants
ⓘ
rules on carriage of goods by land ⓘ rules on commercial agents and brokers ⓘ rules on commercial books and accounting ⓘ rules on commercial partnerships ⓘ rules on commercial register ⓘ rules on commercial transactions ⓘ rules on maritime trade ⓘ rules on silent partnerships ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| fullName |
Handelsgesetzbuch
ⓘ
linked to:
German Commercial Code
|
| governs |
business entities
ⓘ
carriage of goods ⓘ commercial agents ⓘ commercial books ⓘ commercial partnerships ⓘ commercial register ⓘ commercial transactions ⓘ maritime trade ⓘ merchants ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | HGB ⓘ |
| isCentralBodyOfLawFor |
business entities in Germany
ⓘ
commercial transactions in Germany ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Germany ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| legalArea |
commercial law
ⓘ
company law ⓘ |
| legalSystem | German law ⓘ |
| partOf | German private law ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Aktiengesetz
ⓘ
linked to:
German Stock Corporation Act
Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch ⓘ
linked to:
German Civil Code
GmbH-Gesetz ⓘ
linked to:
German Limited Liability Companies Act
|
| subjectHeading |
Handelsrecht
ⓘ
Wirtschaftsrecht ⓘ |
| usedBy |
German courts
ⓘ
companies in Germany ⓘ lawyers in Germany ⓘ |
| usedIn | German business practice ⓘ |
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: HGB Description of subject: HGB is the abbreviation for the German Commercial Code, the central body of law governing commercial transactions and business entities in Germany.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.