Goetheanum
E517688
The Goetheanum is the world center for the anthroposophical movement, serving as a cultural and spiritual venue for performances, conferences, and education in Dornach, Switzerland.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Goetheanum canonical | 4 |
| Goetheanum main building | 1 |
| first Goetheanum building | 1 |
| second Goetheanum building | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5392681 — 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: Goetheanum Context triple: [Dornach, hasLandmark, Goetheanum]
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A.
Deutsche Guggenheim
Deutsche Guggenheim was a contemporary art museum in Berlin created through a partnership between Deutsche Bank and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, known for its rotating exhibitions and commissioned works.
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B.
Einstein Tower
Einstein Tower is an expressionist solar observatory in Potsdam, Germany, renowned for its avant-garde architecture and its role in testing aspects of Einstein’s theory of relativity.
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C.
Karlsruhe Palace
Karlsruhe Palace is a historic Baroque residence in Karlsruhe, Germany, that served as the former home of the Margraves and Grand Dukes of Baden and now houses the Badisches Landesmuseum.
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D.
Goethe House
Goethe House is the preserved birthplace and family home of writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Frankfurt am Main, now a museum dedicated to his life and work.
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E.
Goethe National Museum
The Goethe National Museum is a cultural institution in Weimar dedicated to the life, work, and legacy of the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, housed in his former residence.
- 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: Goetheanum Target entity description: The Goetheanum is the world center for the anthroposophical movement, serving as a cultural and spiritual venue for performances, conferences, and education in Dornach, Switzerland.
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A.
Deutsche Guggenheim
Deutsche Guggenheim was a contemporary art museum in Berlin created through a partnership between Deutsche Bank and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, known for its rotating exhibitions and commissioned works.
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B.
Einstein Tower
Einstein Tower is an expressionist solar observatory in Potsdam, Germany, renowned for its avant-garde architecture and its role in testing aspects of Einstein’s theory of relativity.
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C.
Karlsruhe Palace
Karlsruhe Palace is a historic Baroque residence in Karlsruhe, Germany, that served as the former home of the Margraves and Grand Dukes of Baden and now houses the Badisches Landesmuseum.
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D.
Goethe House
Goethe House is the preserved birthplace and family home of writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Frankfurt am Main, now a museum dedicated to his life and work.
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E.
Goethe National Museum
The Goethe National Museum is a cultural institution in Weimar dedicated to the life, work, and legacy of the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, housed in his former residence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
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cultural center ⓘ spiritual center ⓘ theatre ⓘ world center of the anthroposophical movement ⓘ |
| affiliation | General Anthroposophical Society NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Second Goetheanum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architect | Rudolf Steiner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Expressionist architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canton | Canton of Solothurn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1924 ⓘ |
| coordinates | 47.482°N 7.616°E ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| firstBuildingArchitect | Rudolf Steiner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstBuildingDestroyedBy | fire ⓘ |
| firstBuildingDestructionDate | 1922 ⓘ |
| firstBuildingMaterial | wood ⓘ |
| function |
administrative center of the General Anthroposophical Society
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conference center ⓘ educational institution ⓘ performance venue ⓘ |
| hasAuditorium | yes ⓘ |
| hasBookshop | yes ⓘ |
| hasCafeteria | yes ⓘ |
| hasLibrary | yes ⓘ |
| hasOrganizationHeadquarters |
General Anthroposophical Society
NERFINISHED
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School of Spiritual Science NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStage | yes ⓘ |
| location | Dornach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material | concrete ⓘ |
| movement | Anthroposophy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| municipality | Dornach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Goetheanum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfStoreys | 2 ⓘ |
| opened | 1928 ⓘ |
| precededBy | First Goetheanum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Basel metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Waldorf education conferences
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art exhibitions ⓘ biodynamic agriculture conferences ⓘ conferences ⓘ eurythmy performances ⓘ lectures ⓘ medical and therapeutic conferences ⓘ religious and spiritual events ⓘ teacher training ⓘ theatrical performances ⓘ |
| website | https://www.goetheanum.org/ ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Goetheanum Description of subject: The Goetheanum is the world center for the anthroposophical movement, serving as a cultural and spiritual venue for performances, conferences, and education in Dornach, Switzerland.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Goetheanum main building
this entity surface form:
first Goetheanum building
this entity surface form:
second Goetheanum building