Maximilian Henry of Bavaria
E121192
Archbishop-Elector of Cologne
Bavarian prince
Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire
Roman Catholic archbishop
human
member of the House of Wittelsbach
Maximilian Henry of Bavaria was a 17th-century Bavarian prince of the House of Wittelsbach who served as Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and played a significant role in the politics of the Holy Roman Empire during the Franco-Dutch War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maximilian Henry of Bavaria canonical | 3 |
| Maximilian Henry of Bavaria (as Elector of Cologne) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T782835 — 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: Maximilian Henry of Bavaria Context triple: [Electorate of Cologne, notableRuler, Maximilian Henry of Bavaria]
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Maximilian II of Bavaria
Maximilian II of Bavaria was the King of Bavaria from 1848 to 1864, known for his support of the arts, sciences, and constitutional monarchy during a period of political and cultural modernization.
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Maximilian William of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Maximilian William of Brunswick-Lüneburg was a 17th-century German prince of the House of Hanover who pursued a military career in the imperial service and remained a Catholic outlier in his largely Protestant dynasty.
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C.
Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria
Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria was a Bavarian prince and briefly the designated heir to the Spanish throne whose early death helped trigger the War of the Spanish Succession.
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Otto of Bavaria
Otto of Bavaria was a late 19th- and early 20th-century king of Bavaria whose reign was largely nominal due to mental illness, leading to government by a regent in his name.
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E.
Ludwig III of Bavaria
Ludwig III of Bavaria was the last king of Bavaria, ruling from 1913 until the monarchy’s abolition in 1918 during the German Revolution.
- 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: Maximilian Henry of Bavaria Target entity description: Maximilian Henry of Bavaria was a 17th-century Bavarian prince of the House of Wittelsbach who served as Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and played a significant role in the politics of the Holy Roman Empire during the Franco-Dutch War.
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A.
Maximilian II of Bavaria
Maximilian II of Bavaria was the King of Bavaria from 1848 to 1864, known for his support of the arts, sciences, and constitutional monarchy during a period of political and cultural modernization.
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B.
Maximilian William of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Maximilian William of Brunswick-Lüneburg was a 17th-century German prince of the House of Hanover who pursued a military career in the imperial service and remained a Catholic outlier in his largely Protestant dynasty.
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C.
Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria
Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria was a Bavarian prince and briefly the designated heir to the Spanish throne whose early death helped trigger the War of the Spanish Succession.
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D.
Otto of Bavaria
Otto of Bavaria was a late 19th- and early 20th-century king of Bavaria whose reign was largely nominal due to mental illness, leading to government by a regent in his name.
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E.
Ludwig III of Bavaria
Ludwig III of Bavaria was the last king of Bavaria, ruling from 1913 until the monarchy’s abolition in 1918 during the German Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Maximilian Henry of Bavaria Description of subject: Maximilian Henry of Bavaria was a 17th-century Bavarian prince of the House of Wittelsbach who served as Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and played a significant role in the politics of the Holy Roman Empire during the Franco-Dutch War.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Maximilian Henry of Bavaria (as Elector of Cologne)