Usedom (town)
E1021842
Usedom is a small historic town in northeastern Germany located on the island of Usedom in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stadt Usedom | 1 |
| Stolpe auf Usedom | 1 |
| Usedom (town) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13114119 — 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: Usedom (town) Context triple: [Vorpommern-Greifswald, contains, Usedom (town)]
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A.
Amt Usedom-Süd
Amt Usedom-Süd is an administrative collective municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, encompassing several local municipalities on the island of Usedom.
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B.
Ostseebad
Ostseebad is a German designation for a seaside resort town on the Baltic Sea, recognized for its coastal tourism and spa facilities.
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C.
Sassnitz
Sassnitz is a port town on the Baltic Sea coast of Germany, located on the island of Rügen and known as a gateway to nearby national parks and chalk cliffs.
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D.
Ueckermünde
Ueckermünde is a small historic port town in northeastern Germany on the Szczecin Lagoon, known for its maritime heritage and access to the Baltic Sea.
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E.
Himmerich
Himmerich is a hill in Germany’s Siebengebirge range, known for its forested slopes and hiking trails overlooking the Rhine valley.
- 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: Usedom (town) Target entity description: Usedom is a small historic town in northeastern Germany located on the island of Usedom in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
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A.
Amt Usedom-Süd
Amt Usedom-Süd is an administrative collective municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, encompassing several local municipalities on the island of Usedom.
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B.
Ostseebad
Ostseebad is a German designation for a seaside resort town on the Baltic Sea, recognized for its coastal tourism and spa facilities.
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C.
Sassnitz
Sassnitz is a port town on the Baltic Sea coast of Germany, located on the island of Rügen and known as a gateway to nearby national parks and chalk cliffs.
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D.
Ueckermünde
Ueckermünde is a small historic port town in northeastern Germany on the Szczecin Lagoon, known for its maritime heritage and access to the Baltic Sea.
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E.
Himmerich
Himmerich is a hill in Germany’s Siebengebirge range, known for its forested slopes and hiking trails overlooking the Rhine valley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| areaCode | 038372 ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | about 5 metres ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | historic town centre ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSignificance |
Hanseatic trading place (regional)
ⓘ
medieval town ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
St. Marien church in Usedom
ⓘ
town harbour on the Peenestrom ⓘ |
| hasNameInGerman |
Usedom
ⓘ
linked to:
Island of Usedom
|
| hasPopulation | about 1800 inhabitants ⓘ |
| isNamesakeOf |
Usedom (island)
ⓘ
linked to:
Island of Usedom
|
| locatedIn |
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
ⓘ
Vorpommern-Greifswald (district) ⓘ former East Germany ⓘ
linked to:
East Germany
northeastern Germany ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Polish border ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Usedom (island)
ⓘ
linked to:
Island of Usedom
|
| locatedOnRiver | Peenestrom ⓘ |
| partOf | Baltic Sea region ⓘ |
| postalCode | 17406 ⓘ |
| region |
Vorpommern
ⓘ
linked to:
Pomerania
|
| state | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ⓘ |
| timeZone | CET ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CEST ⓘ |
| vehicleRegistrationCode | VG ⓘ |
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: Usedom (town) Description of subject: Usedom is a small historic town in northeastern Germany located on the island of Usedom in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Vorpommern-Greifswald (district)
linked to: Usedom (town)
linked to: Usedom (town)