Ludwig der Bayer
E383238
Ludwig der Bayer was Louis IV, a 14th-century Holy Roman Emperor from the Wittelsbach dynasty who ruled over the German territories and was involved in major conflicts with the papacy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Emperor Ludwig IV | 1 |
| Ludwig der Bayer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3269671 — 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: Ludwig der Bayer Context triple: [Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, alsoKnownAs, Ludwig der Bayer]
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Ludwig I of Bavaria
Ludwig I of Bavaria was a 19th-century King of Bavaria known for his patronage of the arts, grand neoclassical building projects in Munich, and his tumultuous reign marked by political unrest and eventual abdication.
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B.
Ludwig Amadeus of Bavaria
Ludwig Amadeus of Bavaria was a Bavarian prince of the House of Wittelsbach in the 17th century, born into the ducal family of Bavaria as a younger son.
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C.
Maximilian II of Bavaria
Maximilian II of Bavaria was the King of Bavaria from 1848 to 1864, known for his support of the arts, sciences, and constitutional monarchy during a period of political and cultural modernization.
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D.
Karl Albrecht von Bayern
Karl Albrecht von Bayern was the Bavarian prince who became Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor in the 18th century.
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E.
Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria
Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, was an 18th-century German prince of the Wittelsbach dynasty whose inheritance of the Bavarian electorate sparked the War of the Bavarian Succession and who was known for his patronage of the arts and relatively ineffective rule.
- 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: Ludwig der Bayer Target entity description: Ludwig der Bayer was Louis IV, a 14th-century Holy Roman Emperor from the Wittelsbach dynasty who ruled over the German territories and was involved in major conflicts with the papacy.
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A.
Ludwig I of Bavaria
Ludwig I of Bavaria was a 19th-century King of Bavaria known for his patronage of the arts, grand neoclassical building projects in Munich, and his tumultuous reign marked by political unrest and eventual abdication.
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B.
Ludwig Amadeus of Bavaria
Ludwig Amadeus of Bavaria was a Bavarian prince of the House of Wittelsbach in the 17th century, born into the ducal family of Bavaria as a younger son.
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C.
Maximilian II of Bavaria
Maximilian II of Bavaria was the King of Bavaria from 1848 to 1864, known for his support of the arts, sciences, and constitutional monarchy during a period of political and cultural modernization.
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D.
Karl Albrecht von Bayern
Karl Albrecht von Bayern was the Bavarian prince who became Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor in the 18th century.
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E.
Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria
Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, was an 18th-century German prince of the Wittelsbach dynasty whose inheritance of the Bavarian electorate sparked the War of the Bavarian Succession and who was known for his patronage of the arts and relatively ineffective rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Duke of Bavaria
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Holy Roman Emperor ⓘ King of the Romans ⓘ human ⓘ medieval ruler ⓘ member of nobility ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV
ⓘ
surface form:
Louis IV
Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV ⓘ
surface form:
Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV ⓘ
surface form:
Ludwig IV.
Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV ⓘ
surface form:
Ludwig IV., römisch-deutscher Kaiser
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| burialPlace |
Frauenkirche
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surface form:
Frauenkirche, Munich
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| causeOfDeath | stroke (suspected) ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 14th century ⓘ |
| child |
Albert I of Bavaria
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surface form:
Albert I, Duke of Bavaria
Anna of Bavaria NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis V, Duke of Bavaria ⓘ Margaret of Bavaria NERFINISHED ⓘ Otto V, Duke of Bavaria ⓘ Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria ⓘ William I, Duke of Bavaria ⓘ |
| conflict |
conflict with Pope John XXII
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conflict with the papacy over imperial authority ⓘ dispute with Frederick the Fair over the German crown ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1282-02-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1347-10-11 ⓘ |
| era | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| familyName |
House of Wittelsbach
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surface form:
Wittelsbach
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| father | Louis II, Duke of Bavaria ⓘ |
| givenName | Ludwig ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | Middle High German ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | sudden death ⓘ |
| memberOf | House of Wittelsbach ⓘ |
| mother | Matilda of Habsburg ⓘ |
| nobleFamily |
House of Wittelsbach
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surface form:
Wittelsbach dynasty
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| notableEvent |
double election as King of the Romans in 1314
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imperial coronation in Rome (1328) ⓘ intervention in Italian politics, including in Milan and Rome ⓘ issued imperial laws limiting papal interference in imperial affairs ⓘ support for the Spiritual Franciscans against the papacy ⓘ victory at the Battle of Mühldorf (1322) ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Duchy of Bavaria
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Munich ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Duchy of Bavaria
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Puch near Fürstenfeldbruck ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Duke of Bavaria
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surface form:
Duke of Upper Bavaria
Holy Roman Emperor ⓘ Holy Roman Emperor ⓘ
surface form:
King of Germany
King of the Romans ⓘ Margrave of Brandenburg (regent) ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1347 (as Holy Roman Emperor) ⓘ |
| reignStart |
1314 (as King of the Romans)
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1328 (as Holy Roman Emperor) ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Imperial court of the Holy Roman Empire
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Munich ⓘ |
| spouse |
Beatrix of Silesia-Glogau
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Margaret II of Flanders ⓘ
surface form:
Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut
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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: Ludwig der Bayer Description of subject: Ludwig der Bayer was Louis IV, a 14th-century Holy Roman Emperor from the Wittelsbach dynasty who ruled over the German territories and was involved in major conflicts with the papacy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor
this entity surface form:
Emperor Ludwig IV