University of Ingolstadt
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The University of Ingolstadt was a prominent Bavarian institution of higher learning founded in 1472, known as a major center of Counter-Reformation Catholic scholarship in the Holy Roman Empire.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| University of Ingolstadt canonical | 11 |
| Universitas Ingolstadiensis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2776141 — 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: University of Ingolstadt Context triple: [Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, education, University of Ingolstadt]
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University of Altdorf
The University of Altdorf was an early modern German university near Nuremberg, notable for its role in 17th-century scholarship and as the institution where philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz received his doctorate.
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University of Erfurt
The University of Erfurt is a historic German university in Thuringia, renowned as one of the country’s oldest institutions of higher learning and for having educated Martin Luther.
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University of Marburg
The University of Marburg is one of Germany’s oldest universities and a prominent research institution, particularly renowned for its contributions to the natural sciences and medicine.
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University of Würzburg
The University of Würzburg is a historic German public research university in Bavaria, renowned for its contributions to science and scholarship and for educating numerous notable figures.
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University of Leipzig
The University of Leipzig is one of Germany’s oldest and most prestigious universities, renowned for its contributions to research and education in the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.
- 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: University of Ingolstadt Target entity description: The University of Ingolstadt was a prominent Bavarian institution of higher learning founded in 1472, known as a major center of Counter-Reformation Catholic scholarship in the Holy Roman Empire.
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University of Altdorf
The University of Altdorf was an early modern German university near Nuremberg, notable for its role in 17th-century scholarship and as the institution where philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz received his doctorate.
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B.
University of Erfurt
The University of Erfurt is a historic German university in Thuringia, renowned as one of the country’s oldest institutions of higher learning and for having educated Martin Luther.
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C.
University of Marburg
The University of Marburg is one of Germany’s oldest universities and a prominent research institution, particularly renowned for its contributions to the natural sciences and medicine.
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D.
University of Würzburg
The University of Würzburg is a historic German public research university in Bavaria, renowned for its contributions to science and scholarship and for educating numerous notable figures.
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E.
University of Leipzig
The University of Leipzig is one of Germany’s oldest and most prestigious universities, renowned for its contributions to research and education in the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: University of Ingolstadt Description of subject: The University of Ingolstadt was a prominent Bavarian institution of higher learning founded in 1472, known as a major center of Counter-Reformation Catholic scholarship in the Holy Roman Empire.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Universitas Ingolstadiensis