Count Hermann IV of Ravensberg
E945301
Count Hermann IV of Ravensberg was a 13th-century German nobleman best known for establishing the town of Bielefeld as the center of his territorial rule.
All labels observed (1)
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| Count Hermann IV of Ravensberg canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11745161 — 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: Count Hermann IV of Ravensberg Context triple: [Bielefeld, founder, Count Hermann IV of Ravensberg]
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A.
Gerhard VII, Duke of Jülich-Berg
Gerhard VII, Duke of Jülich-Berg, was a late medieval German nobleman who ruled the united duchies of Jülich and Berg in the Holy Roman Empire.
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B.
Gerhard V, Count of Jülich
Gerhard V, Count of Jülich, was a medieval German nobleman who ruled the County of Jülich and played a significant role in the regional politics of the Holy Roman Empire.
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C.
Friedrich zu Limburg-Styrum
Friedrich zu Limburg-Styrum was a nobleman and political figure from the historic German-Dutch aristocratic House of Limburg-Stirum.
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D.
Walram, Count of Jülich
Walram, Count of Jülich, was a medieval German nobleman who ruled the County of Jülich and played a role in the regional politics of the Holy Roman Empire.
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E.
Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg
Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg was a 16th-century German archbishop and prince-elector whose conversion to Protestantism and attempt to secularize his territory sparked the Cologne War within the Holy Roman Empire.
- 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: Count Hermann IV of Ravensberg Target entity description: Count Hermann IV of Ravensberg was a 13th-century German nobleman best known for establishing the town of Bielefeld as the center of his territorial rule.
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A.
Gerhard VII, Duke of Jülich-Berg
Gerhard VII, Duke of Jülich-Berg, was a late medieval German nobleman who ruled the united duchies of Jülich and Berg in the Holy Roman Empire.
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B.
Gerhard V, Count of Jülich
Gerhard V, Count of Jülich, was a medieval German nobleman who ruled the County of Jülich and played a significant role in the regional politics of the Holy Roman Empire.
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C.
Friedrich zu Limburg-Styrum
Friedrich zu Limburg-Styrum was a nobleman and political figure from the historic German-Dutch aristocratic House of Limburg-Stirum.
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D.
Walram, Count of Jülich
Walram, Count of Jülich, was a medieval German nobleman who ruled the County of Jülich and played a role in the regional politics of the Holy Roman Empire.
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E.
Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg
Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg was a 16th-century German archbishop and prince-elector whose conversion to Protestantism and attempt to secularize his territory sparked the Cologne War within the Holy Roman Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
count
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medieval German noble ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| activity |
regional administration
ⓘ
territorial consolidation ⓘ town founding ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Bielefeld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 13th century ⓘ |
| child |
Margaret of Ravensberg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Otto IV of Ravensberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1306 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | County of Ravensberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| father | Ludwig of Ravensberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Bielefeld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentForm | feudal county ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Westphalia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| mother | Gertrud of Berg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Calvelage-Ravensberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleRank | count ⓘ |
| notableFor |
establishing Bielefeld as the center of his territorial rule
ⓘ
urban development in Ravensberg territory ⓘ |
| partOf |
German nobility
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Prince-bishopric of Osnabrück (overlapping ecclesiastical jurisdiction) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Count of Ravensberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Ludwig of Ravensberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| realm | County of Ravensberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Ravensberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1306 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1249 ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Bielefeld
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ravensberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seatOfPower | Bielefeld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Ermengard of Berg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Otto IV of Ravensberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| territoryRuled | County of Ravensberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Count of Ravensberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Count Hermann IV of Ravensberg Description of subject: Count Hermann IV of Ravensberg was a 13th-century German nobleman best known for establishing the town of Bielefeld as the center of his territorial rule.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.