County of Ravensberg
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The County of Ravensberg was a small medieval and early modern territorial state within the Holy Roman Empire, located in what is now North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| County of Ravensberg canonical | 41 |
| former County of Ravensberg | 2 |
| Count of Ravensberg | 1 |
| Counts of Ravensberg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T674579 — 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: County of Ravensberg Context triple: [Middle Dutch, spokenIn, County of Ravensberg]
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A.
County of Nassau-Siegen
The County of Nassau-Siegen was a territorial subdivision of the medieval German County of Nassau centered around the town of Siegen and ruled by a branch of the House of Nassau.
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B.
County of Bentheim
The County of Bentheim is a historic territorial county in northwestern Germany, centered around the town of Bad Bentheim near the Dutch border.
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C.
County of Nassau-Hadamar
The County of Nassau-Hadamar was a small early modern German principality ruled by a branch of the House of Nassau within the Holy Roman Empire.
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D.
County of Nassau-Dillenburg
The County of Nassau-Dillenburg was a medieval and early modern German territorial state ruled by a branch of the House of Nassau, centered on the town of Dillenburg in present-day Hesse.
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E.
County of Nassau-Beilstein
The County of Nassau-Beilstein was a small territorial lordship within the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by a cadet branch of the House of Nassau.
- 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: County of Ravensberg Target entity description: The County of Ravensberg was a small medieval and early modern territorial state within the Holy Roman Empire, located in what is now North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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A.
County of Nassau-Siegen
The County of Nassau-Siegen was a territorial subdivision of the medieval German County of Nassau centered around the town of Siegen and ruled by a branch of the House of Nassau.
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B.
County of Bentheim
The County of Bentheim is a historic territorial county in northwestern Germany, centered around the town of Bad Bentheim near the Dutch border.
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C.
County of Nassau-Hadamar
The County of Nassau-Hadamar was a small early modern German principality ruled by a branch of the House of Nassau within the Holy Roman Empire.
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D.
County of Nassau-Dillenburg
The County of Nassau-Dillenburg was a medieval and early modern German territorial state ruled by a branch of the House of Nassau, centered on the town of Dillenburg in present-day Hesse.
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E.
County of Nassau-Beilstein
The County of Nassau-Beilstein was a small territorial lordship within the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by a cadet branch of the House of Nassau.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: County of Ravensberg Description of subject: The County of Ravensberg was a small medieval and early modern territorial state within the Holy Roman Empire, located in what is now North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: County of Ravensberg
linked to: County of Ravensberg
linked to: County of Ravensberg
linked to: County of Ravensberg
subject linked to:
Count Hermann IV of Ravensberg
subject linked to:
Count Hermann IV of Ravensberg
subject linked to:
Count Hermann IV of Ravensberg