Schöningen
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Schöningen is a small German town in Lower Saxony best known for the discovery of some of the world’s oldest wooden hunting spears and other important archaeological finds.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15189685 — 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: Schöningen Context triple: [Willigis, birthPlace, Schöningen]
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A.
Hohlenstein-Stadel cave
Hohlenstein-Stadel cave is a prehistoric cave in the Swabian Jura of Germany, best known as the discovery site of the Ice Age ivory figurine known as the Lion-man.
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B.
Hohle Fels
Hohle Fels is a famous Paleolithic cave in southwestern Germany known for yielding some of the world’s oldest examples of figurative art and musical instruments.
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C.
Vogelherd Cave
Vogelherd Cave is a Paleolithic archaeological site in Germany renowned for its exceptionally early and finely crafted Ice Age ivory figurines.
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D.
Denisova Cave
Denisova Cave is an archaeological site in Siberia’s Altai Mountains renowned for yielding fossils and DNA that revealed the existence of the archaic human group known as Denisovans.
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E.
Neander Valley
Neander Valley is a small river valley in western Germany renowned as the site where the first recognized Neanderthal fossils were discovered, giving the species its name.
- 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: Schöningen Target entity description: Schöningen is a small German town in Lower Saxony best known for the discovery of some of the world’s oldest wooden hunting spears and other important archaeological finds.
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A.
Hohlenstein-Stadel cave
Hohlenstein-Stadel cave is a prehistoric cave in the Swabian Jura of Germany, best known as the discovery site of the Ice Age ivory figurine known as the Lion-man.
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B.
Hohle Fels
Hohle Fels is a famous Paleolithic cave in southwestern Germany known for yielding some of the world’s oldest examples of figurative art and musical instruments.
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C.
Vogelherd Cave
Vogelherd Cave is a Paleolithic archaeological site in Germany renowned for its exceptionally early and finely crafted Ice Age ivory figurines.
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D.
Denisova Cave
Denisova Cave is an archaeological site in Siberia’s Altai Mountains renowned for yielding fossils and DNA that revealed the existence of the archaic human group known as Denisovans.
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E.
Neander Valley
Neander Valley is a small river valley in western Germany renowned as the site where the first recognized Neanderthal fossils were discovered, giving the species its name.
- F. None of above. chosen
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