Anton Koberger
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Anton Koberger was a prominent 15th-century German printer and publisher, best known for producing the richly illustrated Nuremberg Chronicle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Anton Koberger canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10138116 — 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: Anton Koberger Context triple: [Johannisfriedhof, Nuremberg, burialPlaceOf, Anton Koberger]
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A.
Johann Froben
Johann Froben was a prominent early 16th-century Swiss humanist printer and publisher in Basel, renowned for producing influential editions of biblical and classical texts.
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B.
Hieronymus Froben
Hieronymus Froben was a prominent 16th-century Basel printer and publisher, known for continuing and expanding his family’s influential humanist printing house after his father Johann Froben.
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C.
Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg was a 15th-century German inventor and printer credited with introducing movable-type printing to Europe, revolutionizing the spread of information.
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D.
Erich Gutenberg
Erich Gutenberg was a prominent German economist and business administration scholar known for fundamentally shaping modern German management theory and production economics.
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E.
Christophe Plantin
Christophe Plantin was a prominent 16th-century French-born printer and publisher based in Antwerp, renowned for founding one of Europe’s most influential early printing houses.
- 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: Anton Koberger Target entity description: Anton Koberger was a prominent 15th-century German printer and publisher, best known for producing the richly illustrated Nuremberg Chronicle.
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A.
Johann Froben
Johann Froben was a prominent early 16th-century Swiss humanist printer and publisher in Basel, renowned for producing influential editions of biblical and classical texts.
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B.
Hieronymus Froben
Hieronymus Froben was a prominent 16th-century Basel printer and publisher, known for continuing and expanding his family’s influential humanist printing house after his father Johann Froben.
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C.
Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg was a 15th-century German inventor and printer credited with introducing movable-type printing to Europe, revolutionizing the spread of information.
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D.
Erich Gutenberg
Erich Gutenberg was a prominent German economist and business administration scholar known for fundamentally shaping modern German management theory and production economics.
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E.
Christophe Plantin
Christophe Plantin was a prominent 16th-century French-born printer and publisher based in Antwerp, renowned for founding one of Europe’s most influential early printing houses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German person
ⓘ
bookseller ⓘ human ⓘ printer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| activeInCentury |
15th century
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16th century ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Nuremberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Nuremberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Holy Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Free Imperial City of Nuremberg
NERFINISHED
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Nuremberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthYear | c. 1440 ⓘ |
| businessActivity | book trade across Europe ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Free Imperial City of Nuremberg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Holy Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathCountry | Holy Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Nuremberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathYear | 1513 ⓘ |
| era | Early modern period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Koberger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
book trade
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printing ⓘ publishing ⓘ |
| genre | incunabula ⓘ |
| givenName | Anton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early printing in the Holy Roman Empire
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large-scale illustrated book production ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| name | Anton Koberger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| notableFor | operating one of the largest printing establishments of his time ⓘ |
| notableWork | Nuremberg Chronicle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfPresses | multiple printing presses GENERATED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bookseller
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printer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| operatedPrintingPressIn | Nuremberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| printed |
Nuremberg Chronicle
NERFINISHED
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Schedelsche Weltchronik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| printedDuringPeriod | incunabula period ⓘ |
| relationshipToAlbrechtDurer | godfather GENERATED ⓘ |
| relative | Albrecht Dürer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholicism
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| timePeriodOfActivityEnd | early 16th century ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfActivityStart | 1470s ⓘ |
| usedTechnology | movable type printing press ⓘ |
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: Anton Koberger Description of subject: Anton Koberger was a prominent 15th-century German printer and publisher, best known for producing the richly illustrated Nuremberg Chronicle.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.