Johannes Petreius
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Johannes Petreius was a 16th-century Nuremberg printer and publisher best known for issuing Nicolaus Copernicus’s groundbreaking work "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Johannes Petreius canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T929126 — 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: Johannes Petreius Context triple: [De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, publisher, Johannes Petreius]
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A.
Johanus
Johanus is a given name, likely a variant or diminutive of Johan, used as a personal first name in some cultures.
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B.
Ulpius
Ulpius is the family name (nomen gentilicium) of the Roman emperor Trajan, identifying him as a member of the gens Ulpia.
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C.
Reinhard
Reinhard is a masculine German given name historically borne by several notable figures, including high-ranking officials in Nazi Germany.
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D.
Marshal Catinat
Marshal Catinat was a prominent 17th-century French general and Marshal of France, noted for his disciplined leadership and key victories under Louis XIV.
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E.
Thaddaeus
Thaddaeus is a disciple of Jesus traditionally counted among the Twelve Apostles in Christian tradition, often identified with Jude the Apostle.
- 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: Johannes Petreius Target entity description: Johannes Petreius was a 16th-century Nuremberg printer and publisher best known for issuing Nicolaus Copernicus’s groundbreaking work "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium."
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A.
Johanus
Johanus is a given name, likely a variant or diminutive of Johan, used as a personal first name in some cultures.
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B.
Ulpius
Ulpius is the family name (nomen gentilicium) of the Roman emperor Trajan, identifying him as a member of the gens Ulpia.
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C.
Reinhard
Reinhard is a masculine German given name historically borne by several notable figures, including high-ranking officials in Nazi Germany.
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D.
Marshal Catinat
Marshal Catinat was a prominent 17th-century French general and Marshal of France, noted for his disciplined leadership and key victories under Louis XIV.
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E.
Thaddaeus
Thaddaeus is a disciple of Jesus traditionally counted among the Twelve Apostles in Christian tradition, often identified with Jude the Apostle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
printer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Nuremberg printing industry ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 16th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| era | Renaissance ⓘ |
| familyName | Petreius ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
printing
ⓘ
publishing ⓘ |
| genrePublished |
humanist literature
ⓘ
scientific works ⓘ theological works ⓘ |
| givenName | Johannes ⓘ |
| languageOfPublishedWorks |
German
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Latin ⓘ |
| name | Johannes Petreius self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | printing the first edition of Copernicus’s De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ⓘ |
| notablePublicationPlace | Nuremberg ⓘ |
| notableWork | De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ⓘ |
| occupation |
printer
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publisher ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Nuremberg ⓘ |
| printedFirstEditionOf | De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ⓘ |
| printedIn | Nuremberg ⓘ |
| printedWorkSubject |
astronomy
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humanism ⓘ mathematics ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| published | De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ⓘ |
| publishedAuthor | Nicolaus Copernicus ⓘ |
| roleInHistoryOfScience | publisher of foundational heliocentric work ⓘ |
| workLocation | Nuremberg ⓘ |
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: Johannes Petreius Description of subject: Johannes Petreius was a 16th-century Nuremberg printer and publisher best known for issuing Nicolaus Copernicus’s groundbreaking work "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Book II (De revolutionibus orbium coelestium)
subject surface form:
Book III (De revolutionibus orbium coelestium)