Max Maria von Weber
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Max Maria von Weber was a 19th-century German civil engineer and writer, known both for his contributions to railway engineering and for authoring a biography of his father, composer Carl Maria von Weber.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Max Maria von Weber canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10126719 — 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: Max Maria von Weber Context triple: [Carl Maria von Weber, child, Max Maria von Weber]
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A.
Heinrich Martin Weber
Heinrich Martin Weber was a German mathematician known for his influential work in algebra, number theory, and the foundations of modern analysis.
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B.
Heinrich Laube
Heinrich Laube was a 19th-century German writer, critic, and theater director associated with the liberal literary movement Young Germany.
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C.
Philipp von Jolly
Philipp von Jolly was a 19th-century German physicist and mathematician known for his work in experimental physics and for mentoring future Nobel laureate Max Planck.
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D.
Theodor Marx
Theodor Marx is the birth name of A. R. Penck, a prominent German neo-expressionist painter, printmaker, and sculptor known for his symbolic, pictographic style.
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E.
Hermann Marx
Hermann Marx was a member of the Marx family of Trier, known primarily as a son of the lawyer Heinrich Marx and thus part of the extended family circle of Karl Marx.
- 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: Max Maria von Weber Target entity description: Max Maria von Weber was a 19th-century German civil engineer and writer, known both for his contributions to railway engineering and for authoring a biography of his father, composer Carl Maria von Weber.
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A.
Heinrich Martin Weber
Heinrich Martin Weber was a German mathematician known for his influential work in algebra, number theory, and the foundations of modern analysis.
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B.
Heinrich Laube
Heinrich Laube was a 19th-century German writer, critic, and theater director associated with the liberal literary movement Young Germany.
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C.
Philipp von Jolly
Philipp von Jolly was a 19th-century German physicist and mathematician known for his work in experimental physics and for mentoring future Nobel laureate Max Planck.
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D.
Theodor Marx
Theodor Marx is the birth name of A. R. Penck, a prominent German neo-expressionist painter, printmaker, and sculptor known for his symbolic, pictographic style.
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E.
Hermann Marx
Hermann Marx was a member of the Marx family of Trier, known primarily as a son of the lawyer Heinrich Marx and thus part of the extended family circle of Karl Marx.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil engineer
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Germany
ⓘ
Kingdom of Saxony ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1822-04-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1881-04-18 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| familyName | von Weber ⓘ |
| father | Carl Maria von Weber ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biographical writing
ⓘ
civil engineering ⓘ railway engineering ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
ⓘ
non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Max ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Carl Maria von Weber
ⓘ
Caroline Brandt ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| mother | Caroline Brandt ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to 19th-century railway engineering
ⓘ
writing a major biography of his father Carl Maria von Weber ⓘ |
| notableRole | pioneer of German railway administration ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Karl Maria von Weber: ein Lebensbild
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biography of Carl Maria von Weber ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil engineer
ⓘ
railway engineer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Dresden ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Berlin ⓘ |
| residence |
Berlin
ⓘ
Dresden ⓘ Vienna ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Berlin
ⓘ
Dresden ⓘ Vienna ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Max Maria von Weber Description of subject: Max Maria von Weber was a 19th-century German civil engineer and writer, known both for his contributions to railway engineering and for authoring a biography of his father, composer Carl Maria von Weber.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.