Dettingen am Main
E121821
Dettingen am Main is a village in Bavaria, Germany, best known as the site of the 1743 Battle of Dettingen during the War of the Austrian Succession.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dettingen am Main canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T948087 — 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: Dettingen am Main Context triple: [Battle of Dettingen, location, Dettingen am Main]
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A.
Schwabach
Schwabach is a historic town in northern Bavaria, Germany, known for its traditional gold-beating craft and well-preserved old town.
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B.
Isar River
The Isar River is a major river in Austria and Germany that flows through the Alps and the city of Munich before joining the Danube.
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C.
Pegnitz River
The Pegnitz River is a river in the German state of Bavaria that flows through the city of Nuremberg and joins the Rednitz to form the Regnitz.
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D.
Lahn
The Lahn is a river in western Germany that flows through the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, and Rhineland-Palatinate before joining the Rhine.
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E.
Gera
Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia, known for its industrial heritage and historic architecture along the White Elster river.
- 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: Dettingen am Main Target entity description: Dettingen am Main is a village in Bavaria, Germany, best known as the site of the 1743 Battle of Dettingen during the War of the Austrian Succession.
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A.
Schwabach
Schwabach is a historic town in northern Bavaria, Germany, known for its traditional gold-beating craft and well-preserved old town.
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B.
Isar River
The Isar River is a major river in Austria and Germany that flows through the Alps and the city of Munich before joining the Danube.
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C.
Pegnitz River
The Pegnitz River is a river in the German state of Bavaria that flows through the city of Nuremberg and joins the Rednitz to form the Regnitz.
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D.
Lahn
The Lahn is a river in western Germany that flows through the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, and Rhineland-Palatinate before joining the Rhine.
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E.
Gera
Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia, known for its industrial heritage and historic architecture along the White Elster river.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human settlement
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| areaCode | 06188 ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Bavaria ⓘ |
| eventDate | 27 June 1743 ⓘ |
| hasClimate | temperate oceanic climate ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | German ⓘ |
| hasLocalDialect |
East Franconian
ⓘ
surface form:
East Franconian German
|
| historicalRegion | Franconia ⓘ |
| knownFor | Battle of Dettingen ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bavaria
ⓘ
Bavaria ⓘ
surface form:
Free State of Bavaria
Lower Franconia ⓘ northwestern Bavaria ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Aschaffenburg (district)
ⓘ
surface form:
Aschaffenburg district
|
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Aschaffenburg
ⓘ
Hanau ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver |
River Main
ⓘ
surface form:
Main River
|
| partOf | Karlstein am Main ⓘ |
| postalCode | 63791 ⓘ |
| railwayAccess | Main-Spessart Railway ⓘ |
| roadAccess | Bundesstraße 8 ⓘ |
| significantEvent | Battle of Dettingen ⓘ |
| vehicleRegistrationCode | AB ⓘ |
| war | War of the Austrian Succession ⓘ |
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: Dettingen am Main Description of subject: Dettingen am Main is a village in Bavaria, Germany, best known as the site of the 1743 Battle of Dettingen during the War of the Austrian Succession.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.