Breitenau, Hesse-Nassau, German Empire
E88987
Breitenau, Hesse-Nassau, German Empire was a locality in the former Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, known as the birthplace of German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Breitenau, Hesse-Nassau, German Empire canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T748945 — 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: Breitenau, Hesse-Nassau, German Empire Context triple: [Friedrich Paulus, placeOfBirth, Breitenau, Hesse-Nassau, German Empire]
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A.
Grand Duchy of Hesse
The Grand Duchy of Hesse was a historical German state in central Europe that existed from the early 19th century until the end of World War I, known for its capital Darmstadt and its ruling House of Hesse.
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B.
Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
The Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was a historical German grand duchy in central Europe, known for its cultural center at Weimar and its role within the German Confederation and later the German Empire.
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C.
Hesse-Kassel
Hesse-Kassel was a German principality known for supplying large numbers of Hessian mercenary troops to fight alongside the British during the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Grand Duchy of Baden
The Grand Duchy of Baden was a historical German state on the Upper Rhine that emerged in the early 19th century, later becoming a member of the German Confederation and then the German Empire.
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E.
Kingdom of Württemberg
The Kingdom of Württemberg was a historical German state in southwestern Germany that existed from the early 19th century until the end of World War I, with Stuttgart as its capital.
- 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: Breitenau, Hesse-Nassau, German Empire Target entity description: Breitenau, Hesse-Nassau, German Empire was a locality in the former Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, known as the birthplace of German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus.
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A.
Grand Duchy of Hesse
The Grand Duchy of Hesse was a historical German state in central Europe that existed from the early 19th century until the end of World War I, known for its capital Darmstadt and its ruling House of Hesse.
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B.
Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
The Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was a historical German grand duchy in central Europe, known for its cultural center at Weimar and its role within the German Confederation and later the German Empire.
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C.
Hesse-Kassel
Hesse-Kassel was a German principality known for supplying large numbers of Hessian mercenary troops to fight alongside the British during the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
Grand Duchy of Baden
The Grand Duchy of Baden was a historical German state on the Upper Rhine that emerged in the early 19th century, later becoming a member of the German Confederation and then the German Empire.
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E.
Kingdom of Württemberg
The Kingdom of Württemberg was a historical German state in southwestern Germany that existed from the early 19th century until the end of World War I, with Stuttgart as its capital.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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locality ⓘ province of Prussia ⓘ |
| country |
German Empire
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Prussia ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Prussia
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
German Empire
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Nazi Germany ⓘ Weimar Republic ⓘ |
| hasCitizenshipDuringPeriod | subjects of the German Empire ⓘ |
| historicalLocationOfBirth | Friedrich Paulus ⓘ |
| knownFor | birthplace of Friedrich Paulus ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Prussia
ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Prussia
Province of Hesse-Nassau ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | German Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Field Marshal ⓘ |
| notableFor | command of the German 6th Army at the Battle of Stalingrad ⓘ |
| partOf |
German Empire
ⓘ
German Empire ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Breitenau, Hesse-Nassau, German Empire self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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: Breitenau, Hesse-Nassau, German Empire Description of subject: Breitenau, Hesse-Nassau, German Empire was a locality in the former Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau, known as the birthplace of German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Breitenau, Hesse-Nassau, German Empire
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placeOfBirth
→
Breitenau, Hesse-Nassau, German Empire
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Friedrich Paulus