Münster
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Münster is a historic city in western Germany known as one of the principal sites where the Peace of Westphalia treaties were negotiated and signed, ending the Thirty Years' War in 1648.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Münster canonical | 103 |
| Münster, Germany | 5 |
| City of Münster | 3 |
| Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | 2 |
| Münster (city) | 1 |
| Münster administrative region | 1 |
| Münster city center | 1 |
| Münster old town | 1 |
| Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T103819 — 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: Münster Context triple: [Peace of Westphalia, tookPlaceIn, Münster]
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A.
Osnabrück
Osnabrück is a historic city in Lower Saxony, Germany, known for its medieval architecture and role in the Peace of Westphalia.
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Cologne
Cologne is a historic German city on the Rhine River, renowned for its Gothic cathedral, vibrant cultural scene, and status as a major economic and media hub.
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C.
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is a major German city on the Rhine River known for its fashion and art scenes, modern architecture, and status as an important economic and financial center.
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D.
Heidelberg
Heidelberg is a historic university city in southwestern Germany renowned for its picturesque old town, castle ruins, and one of Europe’s oldest universities.
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E.
Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern is a city in southwestern Germany known for its historic old town, technical university, and prominent football club 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
- 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: Münster Target entity description: Münster is a historic city in western Germany known as one of the principal sites where the Peace of Westphalia treaties were negotiated and signed, ending the Thirty Years' War in 1648.
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A.
Osnabrück
Osnabrück is a historic city in Lower Saxony, Germany, known for its medieval architecture and role in the Peace of Westphalia.
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B.
Cologne
Cologne is a historic German city on the Rhine River, renowned for its Gothic cathedral, vibrant cultural scene, and status as a major economic and media hub.
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C.
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is a major German city on the Rhine River known for its fashion and art scenes, modern architecture, and status as an important economic and financial center.
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D.
Heidelberg
Heidelberg is a historic university city in southwestern Germany renowned for its picturesque old town, castle ruins, and one of Europe’s oldest universities.
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E.
Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern is a city in southwestern Germany known for its historic old town, technical university, and prominent football club 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
- 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: Münster Description of subject: Münster is a historic city in western Germany known as one of the principal sites where the Peace of Westphalia treaties were negotiated and signed, ending the Thirty Years' War in 1648.
Referenced by (118)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
St. Paul’s Cathedral (Münster)
subject surface form:
St. Paul’s Cathedral (Münster)
subject surface form:
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Orléans (historic association via Saint Oswald links, often cited culturally)
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Münster
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subject surface form:
Orléans
this entity surface form:
Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
this entity surface form:
City of Münster
this entity surface form:
Münster city center
subject surface form:
Aasee (Münster)
this entity surface form:
Münster old town
this entity surface form:
City of Münster
subject surface form:
Rheine
subject surface form:
Rheine
this entity surface form:
City of Münster