Furth im Wald
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Furth im Wald is a small Bavarian town in southeastern Germany, known for its traditional Drachenstich (dragon-slaying) festival and picturesque setting near the Czech border.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aicha vorm Wald | 1 |
| Furth im Wald canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6554462 — 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: Furth im Wald Context triple: [Castres, hasTwinTown, Furth im Wald]
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A.
Der Wald auf dem Kopf
Der Wald auf dem Kopf is a seminal upside-down forest painting by German artist Georg Baselitz that exemplifies his radical inversion technique and Neo-Expressionist style.
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B.
Buch am Forst
Buch am Forst is a village and district of the town of Lichtenfels in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany.
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C.
In the Woods
In the Woods is a 19th-century landscape painting by American artist Asher B. Durand, exemplifying the Hudson River School’s detailed and reverent depiction of the natural world.
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D.
Bad Brambach
Bad Brambach is a German spa town in the Vogtland region of Saxony, renowned for its mineral springs and therapeutic health resorts.
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E.
The Woods
The Woods is a residential neighborhood within the planned community of Burke Centre in Fairfax County, Virginia.
- 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: Furth im Wald Target entity description: Furth im Wald is a small Bavarian town in southeastern Germany, known for its traditional Drachenstich (dragon-slaying) festival and picturesque setting near the Czech border.
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A.
Der Wald auf dem Kopf
Der Wald auf dem Kopf is a seminal upside-down forest painting by German artist Georg Baselitz that exemplifies his radical inversion technique and Neo-Expressionist style.
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B.
Buch am Forst
Buch am Forst is a village and district of the town of Lichtenfels in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany.
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C.
In the Woods
In the Woods is a 19th-century landscape painting by American artist Asher B. Durand, exemplifying the Hudson River School’s detailed and reverent depiction of the natural world.
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D.
Bad Brambach
Bad Brambach is a German spa town in the Vogtland region of Saxony, renowned for its mineral springs and therapeutic health resorts.
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E.
The Woods
The Woods is a residential neighborhood within the planned community of Burke Centre in Fairfax County, Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | town ⓘ |
| borderCrossingTo | Domažlice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderRegion | Bavaria–Bohemia border region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceTo |
approximately 16 km northeast of Cham
ⓘ
approximately 170 km northeast of Munich ⓘ |
| district | Cham (district) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 401 metres ⓘ |
| federalState | Bavaria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| festivalSeason | summer ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 09973 ⓘ |
| hasClimate | temperate oceanic climate ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
cross-border trade
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| hasFestivalFrequency | annually ⓘ |
| hasLocalMuseum | Drachenmuseum Furth im Wald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalStatusSince | Middle Ages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPopulationCharacteristic | small town ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 93437 ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation | Furth im Wald station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasScenicCharacteristic | picturesque setting ⓘ |
| hasTouristAttraction |
Drachenhöhle Furth im Wald
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Drachenmuseum Furth im Wald NERFINISHED ⓘ historic town centre ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalEvent | Drachenstich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Drachenstich festival
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
dragon-slaying pageant ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southeastern Germany ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity | Cham (district) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInMountainRange | Bavarian Forest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Czech–German border NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | River Chamb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearBorderWith | Czech Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Bavarian Forest holiday region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| railwayLine | Regensburg–Furth im Wald railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Upper Palatinate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Bavaria ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central European Time ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Central European Summer Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| twinTown |
Bad Kötzting
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Domažlice NERFINISHED ⓘ Furth bei Göttweig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vehicleRegistrationCode | CHA ⓘ |
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: Furth im Wald Description of subject: Furth im Wald is a small Bavarian town in southeastern Germany, known for its traditional Drachenstich (dragon-slaying) festival and picturesque setting near the Czech border.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Aicha vorm Wald