Nowogródek Voivodeship

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former administrative division voivodeship

Nowogródek Voivodeship was an administrative region of the Second Polish Republic in the interwar period, situated in the eastern part of the country on territories that are now largely within Belarus.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Nowogródek Voivodeship canonical	3
Nowogródek region	2
Nowogródek Voivodeship (Second Polish Republic)	1
Nowogródek Voivodeship (historically)	1
Nowogródek Voivodeship (interwar Poland)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2400786 — 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: Nowogródek Voivodeship
Context triple: [Wiszniew, Second Polish Republic, locatedIn, Nowogródek Voivodeship]

A. Sandomierz Voivodeship
Sandomierz Voivodeship was a historical administrative region of the Kingdom of Poland centered around the city of Sandomierz in the Lesser Poland area.
B. Wilno Voivodeship
Wilno Voivodeship was an interwar administrative region of the Second Polish Republic centered on the city of Wilno (now Vilnius), encompassing parts of present-day Lithuania and Belarus.
C. Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship is an administrative region in south-central Poland known for the Świętokrzyskie (Holy Cross) Mountains, historic sites, and a largely rural, natural landscape.
D. Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship is an administrative region in north-central Poland known for its historic cities like Bydgoszcz and Toruń and its location along the Vistula River.
E. Lublin Voivodeship
Lublin Voivodeship is an administrative region in eastern Poland known for its historic city of Lublin and sites such as the former Nazi concentration camp at Majdanek.
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: Nowogródek Voivodeship
Target entity description: Nowogródek Voivodeship was an administrative region of the Second Polish Republic in the interwar period, situated in the eastern part of the country on territories that are now largely within Belarus.

A. Sandomierz Voivodeship
Sandomierz Voivodeship was a historical administrative region of the Kingdom of Poland centered around the city of Sandomierz in the Lesser Poland area.
B. Wilno Voivodeship
Wilno Voivodeship was an interwar administrative region of the Second Polish Republic centered on the city of Wilno (now Vilnius), encompassing parts of present-day Lithuania and Belarus.
C. Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship is an administrative region in south-central Poland known for the Świętokrzyskie (Holy Cross) Mountains, historic sites, and a largely rural, natural landscape.
D. Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship is an administrative region in north-central Poland known for its historic cities like Bydgoszcz and Toruń and its location along the Vistula River.
E. Lublin Voivodeship
Lublin Voivodeship is an administrative region in eastern Poland known for its historic city of Lublin and sites such as the former Nazi concentration camp at Majdanek.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	former administrative division ⓘ voivodeship ⓘ
administrativeCenter	Nowogródek NERFINISHED ⓘ
borderedBy	Białystok Voivodeship NERFINISHED ⓘ Polesie Voivodeship NERFINISHED ⓘ Republic of Lithuania NERFINISHED ⓘ Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilno Voivodeship NERFINISHED ⓘ Wołyń Voivodeship NERFINISHED ⓘ
capital	Nowogródek NERFINISHED ⓘ Nowogródek (Navahrudak) NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	Second Polish Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ
dissolvedFollowing	Soviet invasion of Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ
endTime	1939 ⓘ
establishedBy	government of the Second Polish Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ
ethnicComposition	Belarusians NERFINISHED ⓘ Jews ⓘ Lithuanians NERFINISHED ⓘ Poles ⓘ
historicalCountry	Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalEvent	Soviet annexation of eastern Poland in 1939 NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalRegion	Kresy NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageOfAdministration	Polish ⓘ
locatedIn	eastern part of the Second Polish Republic ⓘ
locatedInPresentDay	Belarus NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedOnContinent	Europe ⓘ
majorCity	Baranowicze NERFINISHED ⓘ Lida NERFINISHED ⓘ Nieśwież NERFINISHED ⓘ Nowogródek NERFINISHED ⓘ Stołpce NERFINISHED ⓘ
namedAfter	city of Nowogródek ⓘ
partOf	Second Polish Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOfHistoricalEntity	Second Polish Republic (1918–1939) NERFINISHED ⓘ
presentDayTerritoryIncludes	parts of Brest Region ⓘ parts of Grodno Region ⓘ parts of Minsk Region ⓘ western Belarus ⓘ
regionType	administrative region ⓘ
religiousCommunities	Eastern Orthodox NERFINISHED ⓘ Jews ⓘ Roman Catholics NERFINISHED ⓘ
replacedBy	Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ
startTime	1921 ⓘ
status	defunct ⓘ
timePeriod	interwar period ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Wiszniew, Second Polish Republic → locatedIn → Nowogródek Voivodeship ⓘ

Wilno Voivodeship → borderedBy → Nowogródek Voivodeship ⓘ

Polesie Voivodeship → borderedBy → Nowogródek Voivodeship ⓘ

Grodno Governorate → followedBy → Nowogródek Voivodeship ⓘ

this entity surface form: Nowogródek Voivodeship (Second Polish Republic)

Mereczowszczyzna → historicalJurisdiction → Nowogródek Voivodeship ⓘ

this entity surface form: Nowogródek Voivodeship (historically)

Nowogródek District of the Home Army → location → Nowogródek Voivodeship ⓘ

this entity surface form: Nowogródek region

Nowogródek District of the Home Army → region → Nowogródek Voivodeship ⓘ

this entity surface form: Nowogródek Voivodeship (interwar Poland)

Home Army Nowogródek District Command → operatedIn → Nowogródek Voivodeship ⓘ