Troppau
E241013
Troppau is a historic Central European town, now known as Opava in the Czech Republic, that has long served as an important regional administrative and cultural center in Silesia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Troppau canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1435872 — 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: Troppau Context triple: [Treaty of Breslau, excludedRegionFromCession, Troppau]
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A.
Kattowitz
Kattowitz (now Katowice) is a major industrial and cultural city in southern Poland, historically part of Upper Silesia and once within the German Empire.
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B.
Reichenberg
Reichenberg is the former German name for the city of Liberec, a major urban center in the northern Czech Republic near the border with Germany and Poland.
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C.
Karviná
Karviná is an industrial city in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic, historically part of Cieszyn Silesia and known for its coal mining heritage.
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D.
Znojmo
Znojmo is a historic town in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic, known for its medieval architecture, wine production, and strategic position near the Austrian border.
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E.
Český Brod
Český Brod is a historic town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, known for its medieval architecture and role as a former royal town on important trade routes.
- 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: Troppau Target entity description: Troppau is a historic Central European town, now known as Opava in the Czech Republic, that has long served as an important regional administrative and cultural center in Silesia.
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A.
Kattowitz
Kattowitz (now Katowice) is a major industrial and cultural city in southern Poland, historically part of Upper Silesia and once within the German Empire.
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B.
Reichenberg
Reichenberg is the former German name for the city of Liberec, a major urban center in the northern Czech Republic near the border with Germany and Poland.
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C.
Karviná
Karviná is an industrial city in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic, historically part of Cieszyn Silesia and known for its coal mining heritage.
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D.
Znojmo
Znojmo is a historic town in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic, known for its medieval architecture, wine production, and strategic position near the Austrian border.
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E.
Český Brod
Český Brod is a historic town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, known for its medieval architecture and role as a former royal town on important trade routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
diplomatic conference
ⓘ
duchy ⓘ former name of city ⓘ historic town ⓘ settlement ⓘ |
| associatedWithDynasty | House of Liechtenstein ⓘ |
| capital | Troppau self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| capitalOf |
Austrian Silesia
ⓘ
Duchy of Opava ⓘ
surface form:
Duchy of Troppau
|
| country |
Austro-Hungarian Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Austria-Hungary
Austrian Silesia ⓘ Czech Republic ⓘ Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| CzechName | Opava ⓘ |
| date | 1820 ⓘ |
| economicRole |
industrial center of Silesia
ⓘ
trade center ⓘ |
| firstMentioned | 13th century ⓘ |
| grantedTownRights | 13th century ⓘ |
| hasInstitution |
cultural institutions
ⓘ
regional administration offices ⓘ regional court ⓘ |
| heritage |
Silesian architectural traditions
ⓘ
historic town center ⓘ |
| historicalNameOf | Opava ⓘ |
| historicalPopulationMajority | German-speaking ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Austrian Silesia
ⓘ
Austrian Silesia ⓘ
surface form:
Czech Silesia
|
| hostedEvent |
Troppau Conference 1820
ⓘ
surface form:
Congress of Troppau
|
| languageOfName | German ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Central Europe
ⓘ
Moravian-Silesian Region ⓘ Opava District ⓘ Silesia ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Opava River ⓘ |
| location | Troppau self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| modernName | Opava ⓘ |
| partOf |
Concert of Europe
ⓘ
Austrian Habsburg Monarchy ⓘ
surface form:
Habsburg Monarchy
Bohemian Crown ⓘ
surface form:
Lands of the Bohemian Crown
Margraviate of Moravia ⓘ
surface form:
Margraviate of Moravia (administratively linked)
|
| PolishName | Opawa ⓘ |
| postWorldWarIIChange |
Czech population resettled
ⓘ
German population expelled ⓘ |
| railwayConnection | Austrian Silesian railway network ⓘ |
| role |
cultural center
ⓘ
regional administrative center ⓘ |
| ruledBy | House of Liechtenstein ⓘ |
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: Troppau Description of subject: Troppau is a historic Central European town, now known as Opava in the Czech Republic, that has long served as an important regional administrative and cultural center in Silesia.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.