Elchingen
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Elchingen is a municipality in southern Germany, historically notable as the site of a major Napoleonic victory during the War of the Third Coalition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elchingen canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9895992 — 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: Elchingen Context triple: [Battle of Elchingen, location, Elchingen]
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A.
Donaueschingen
Donaueschingen is a town in southwestern Germany, in the Black Forest region of Baden-Württemberg, known as one of the sources of the Danube River.
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B.
Backnang
Backnang is a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, located northeast of Stuttgart and known for its historical center and role as a regional industrial and commuter hub.
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C.
Eichstätt
Eichstätt is a historic Bavarian town in southern Germany known for its baroque architecture, Catholic university, and location within the Altmühltal Nature Park.
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D.
Passau
Passau is a historic city in southeastern Germany, renowned for its picturesque old town and location at the meeting point of three rivers: the Danube, Inn, and Ilz.
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E.
Bochingen
Bochingen is a village and district of the town Oberndorf am Neckar in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany.
- 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: Elchingen Target entity description: Elchingen is a municipality in southern Germany, historically notable as the site of a major Napoleonic victory during the War of the Third Coalition.
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A.
Donaueschingen
Donaueschingen is a town in southwestern Germany, in the Black Forest region of Baden-Württemberg, known as one of the sources of the Danube River.
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B.
Backnang
Backnang is a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, located northeast of Stuttgart and known for its historical center and role as a regional industrial and commuter hub.
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C.
Eichstätt
Eichstätt is a historic Bavarian town in southern Germany known for its baroque architecture, Catholic university, and location within the Altmühltal Nature Park.
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D.
Passau
Passau is a historic city in southeastern Germany, renowned for its picturesque old town and location at the meeting point of three rivers: the Danube, Inn, and Ilz.
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E.
Bochingen
Bochingen is a village and district of the town Oberndorf am Neckar in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
battle
ⓘ
former Benedictine monastery ⓘ municipality ⓘ |
| combatant |
Austrian Empire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
First French Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commandedBy |
Johann Sigismund Riesch
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michel Ney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | state of Bavaria ⓘ |
| date | 14 October 1805 ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 470 metres ⓘ |
| governmentType | municipal council ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode |
07308
ⓘ
0731 ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
agricultural land
ⓘ
residential area ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalPart |
Oberelchingen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thalfingen NERFINISHED ⓘ Unterelchingen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.elchingen.de/ ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 89275 ⓘ |
| hasReligiousBuilding | Elchingen Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRiver |
Danube
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lone (river) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportConnection |
A7 motorway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
A8 motorway NERFINISHED ⓘ railway connections via nearby Ulm/Neu-Ulm ⓘ |
| historicallyNotableFor | Battle of Elchingen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageUsed | German ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bavaria
ⓘ
Elchingen NERFINISHED ⓘ Federal Republic of Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ Neu-Ulm (district) NERFINISHED ⓘ Oberelchingen NERFINISHED ⓘ Swabia (Bavaria) NERFINISHED ⓘ Upper Swabia region NERFINISHED ⓘ southern Germany ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Neu-Ulm
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ulm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Danube River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Elchingen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
War of the Third Coalition
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
administrative region of Swabia ⓘ district of Neu-Ulm ⓘ |
| result | French victory ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| vehicleRegistrationCode | NU NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Elchingen Description of subject: Elchingen is a municipality in southern Germany, historically notable as the site of a major Napoleonic victory during the War of the Third Coalition.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.