Governorate of Estonia
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The Governorate of Estonia was a historical administrative division of the Russian Empire in the Baltic region, encompassing northern parts of present-day Estonia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Governorate of Estonia canonical | 11 |
| Governorate of Estland | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1759392 — 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: Governorate of Estonia Context triple: [Otto von Kotzebue, birthPlace, Governorate of Estonia]
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A.
Governorate of Livonia
The Governorate of Livonia was a historical administrative region of the Russian Empire in the Baltic area, encompassing parts of present-day Latvia and Estonia.
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B.
Kutais Governorate
Kutais Governorate was an administrative division of the Russian Empire in the Caucasus region, centered around the city of Kutaisi in what is now western Georgia.
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C.
Kivalliq Region
Kivalliq Region is an administrative region of Nunavut in northern Canada, known for its Inuit communities, tundra landscapes, and Arctic wildlife.
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D.
Ingria
Ingria is a historical region in northwestern Russia, situated between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga, traditionally inhabited by Finnic peoples such as the Ingrians and Votes.
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E.
Swedish Livonia
Swedish Livonia was a former dominion of the Swedish Empire in the eastern Baltic region, encompassing parts of present-day Latvia and Estonia.
- 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: Governorate of Estonia Target entity description: The Governorate of Estonia was a historical administrative division of the Russian Empire in the Baltic region, encompassing northern parts of present-day Estonia.
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A.
Governorate of Livonia
The Governorate of Livonia was a historical administrative region of the Russian Empire in the Baltic area, encompassing parts of present-day Latvia and Estonia.
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B.
Kutais Governorate
Kutais Governorate was an administrative division of the Russian Empire in the Caucasus region, centered around the city of Kutaisi in what is now western Georgia.
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C.
Kivalliq Region
Kivalliq Region is an administrative region of Nunavut in northern Canada, known for its Inuit communities, tundra landscapes, and Arctic wildlife.
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D.
Ingria
Ingria is a historical region in northwestern Russia, situated between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga, traditionally inhabited by Finnic peoples such as the Ingrians and Votes.
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E.
Swedish Livonia
Swedish Livonia was a former dominion of the Swedish Empire in the eastern Baltic region, encompassing parts of present-day Latvia and Estonia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Governorate of Estonia Description of subject: The Governorate of Estonia was a historical administrative division of the Russian Empire in the Baltic region, encompassing northern parts of present-day Estonia.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Governorate of Estland
subject surface form:
Friedrich Robert Faehlmann