North German thaler
E180902
The North German thaler was a silver coin and monetary unit used across various northern German states in the 18th and 19th centuries, serving as a key regional standard before the adoption of the German mark.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| North German thaler canonical | 3 |
| Mecklenburg thaler | 2 |
| Reichsthaler | 2 |
| Bremen thaler | 1 |
| German Reichsthaler | 1 |
| Hessian thaler | 1 |
| North German monetary conventions | 1 |
| Vereinsthaler | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1577788 — 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: North German thaler Context triple: [Confederation of the Rhine, currency, North German thaler]
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A.
Prussian thaler
The Prussian thaler was the principal silver coin and monetary unit of the Kingdom of Prussia until it was replaced by the German gold mark in the late 19th century.
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B.
South German gulden
The South German gulden was a historical currency used in several southern German states during the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly before the unification of Germany and the adoption of the mark.
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C.
Liège florin
The Liège florin was a historical gold coin used as a principal monetary unit in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège in what is now Belgium.
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D.
Dutch rijksdaalder
The Dutch rijksdaalder was a historical silver coin of the Netherlands that circulated for centuries as a major unit of currency before being replaced by the guilder.
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E.
Danzig gulden
The Danzig gulden was the official monetary unit of the interwar Free City of Danzig, used primarily between World War I and World War II before the area’s incorporation into Poland.
- 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: North German thaler Target entity description: The North German thaler was a silver coin and monetary unit used across various northern German states in the 18th and 19th centuries, serving as a key regional standard before the adoption of the German mark.
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A.
Prussian thaler
The Prussian thaler was the principal silver coin and monetary unit of the Kingdom of Prussia until it was replaced by the German gold mark in the late 19th century.
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B.
South German gulden
The South German gulden was a historical currency used in several southern German states during the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly before the unification of Germany and the adoption of the mark.
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C.
Liège florin
The Liège florin was a historical gold coin used as a principal monetary unit in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège in what is now Belgium.
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D.
Dutch rijksdaalder
The Dutch rijksdaalder was a historical silver coin of the Netherlands that circulated for centuries as a major unit of currency before being replaced by the guilder.
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E.
Danzig gulden
The Danzig gulden was the official monetary unit of the interwar Free City of Danzig, used primarily between World War I and World War II before the area’s incorporation into Poland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical currency
ⓘ
monetary unit ⓘ silver coin ⓘ |
| country | German states ⓘ |
| currencyOf | various North German states ⓘ |
| currencySystem | German states pre-unification monetary system ⓘ |
| followedBy | German mark ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | obsolete currency ⓘ |
| material | silver ⓘ |
| metallicStandard | silver standard ⓘ |
| monetaryRole | key regional standard ⓘ |
| monetaryType | thaler ⓘ |
| partOf | German thaler currency family ⓘ |
| precededBy | earlier German thaler types ⓘ |
| region | Northern Germany ⓘ |
| replacedBy | German mark ⓘ |
| replacedInContextOf | German monetary unification ⓘ |
| servedAs | regional monetary standard ⓘ |
| usedBefore | introduction of the German mark ⓘ |
| usedFor |
everyday transactions
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tax payments ⓘ trade ⓘ |
| usedIn | northern German states ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod |
18th century
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19th century ⓘ |
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: North German thaler Description of subject: The North German thaler was a silver coin and monetary unit used across various northern German states in the 18th and 19th centuries, serving as a key regional standard before the adoption of the German mark.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Reichsthaler
this entity surface form:
German Reichsthaler
this entity surface form:
North German monetary conventions
this entity surface form:
Reichsthaler
this entity surface form:
Hessian thaler
this entity surface form:
Vereinsthaler
this entity surface form:
Bremen thaler
this entity surface form:
Mecklenburg thaler
this entity surface form:
Mecklenburg thaler