South German gulden
E178616
The South German gulden was a historical currency used in several southern German states during the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly before the unification of Germany and the adoption of the mark.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| South German gulden canonical | 5 |
| Bavarian gulden | 1 |
| Hildesheim gulden | 1 |
| Jülich gulden | 1 |
| Prussian gulden | 1 |
| Rhenish guilder | 1 |
| Rhenish gulden | 1 |
| South German monetary system | 1 |
| Thuringian guilder | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1577787 — 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: South German gulden Context triple: [Confederation of the Rhine, currency, South German gulden]
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A.
Austrian gulden
The Austrian gulden was the principal monetary unit of the Austrian Empire and later Austria-Hungary until it was replaced by the krone in the late 19th century.
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B.
Prussian thaler
The Prussian thaler was the principal silver coin and monetary unit of the Kingdom of Prussia until it was replaced by the German gold mark in the late 19th century.
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C.
German gold mark
The German gold mark was the gold-backed national currency of the German Empire from its unification in 1871 until the aftermath of World War I.
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D.
Austrian schilling
The Austrian schilling was Austria's former national currency, used throughout much of the 20th century until the country adopted the euro.
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E.
Liège florin
The Liège florin was a historical gold coin used as a principal monetary unit in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège in what is now Belgium.
- 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: South German gulden Target entity description: The South German gulden was a historical currency used in several southern German states during the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly before the unification of Germany and the adoption of the mark.
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A.
Austrian gulden
The Austrian gulden was the principal monetary unit of the Austrian Empire and later Austria-Hungary until it was replaced by the krone in the late 19th century.
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B.
Prussian thaler
The Prussian thaler was the principal silver coin and monetary unit of the Kingdom of Prussia until it was replaced by the German gold mark in the late 19th century.
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C.
German gold mark
The German gold mark was the gold-backed national currency of the German Empire from its unification in 1871 until the aftermath of World War I.
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D.
Austrian schilling
The Austrian schilling was Austria's former national currency, used throughout much of the 20th century until the country adopted the euro.
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E.
Liège florin
The Liège florin was a historical gold coin used as a principal monetary unit in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège in what is now Belgium.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: South German gulden Description of subject: The South German gulden was a historical currency used in several southern German states during the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly before the unification of Germany and the adoption of the mark.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bavarian gulden
this entity surface form:
Rhenish guilder
this entity surface form:
Hildesheim gulden
this entity surface form:
Jülich gulden
this entity surface form:
Prussian gulden
this entity surface form:
Thuringian guilder
this entity surface form:
South German monetary system