Battle of Węgierska Górka
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The Battle of Węgierska Górka was a 1939 World War II engagement in southern Poland where Polish forces mounted a notable defensive stand against the invading German army.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Battle of Węgierska Górka canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2513343 — 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: Battle of Węgierska Górka Context triple: [Battle of the Border, hasPart, Battle of Węgierska Górka]
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A.
Battle of Zadwórze
The Battle of Zadwórze was a 1920 clash in which a small Polish force mounted a desperate, sacrificial defense against advancing Soviet troops, earning it the nickname "the Polish Thermopylae."
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B.
Battle of Kliszów
The Battle of Kliszów was a major 1702 engagement in the Great Northern War in which Swedish forces under Charles XII defeated a larger Saxon-Polish army, reinforcing Sweden’s dominance in the early phase of the conflict.
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C.
Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski
The Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski was a major World War II engagement in September 1939 between Polish and German forces, notable as one of the largest battles of the German invasion of Poland.
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D.
Battle of Trzciana
The Battle of Trzciana was a 1629 clash during the Polish–Swedish War in which Polish–Lithuanian cavalry forces inflicted a rare and significant defeat on the army of Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus.
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E.
Battle of Kunowice
The Battle of Kunowice was a major 1759 engagement of the Seven Years' War in which a combined Russian and Austrian army inflicted a devastating defeat on Frederick the Great’s Prussian forces near Frankfurt an der Oder.
- 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: Battle of Węgierska Górka Target entity description: The Battle of Węgierska Górka was a 1939 World War II engagement in southern Poland where Polish forces mounted a notable defensive stand against the invading German army.
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A.
Battle of Zadwórze
The Battle of Zadwórze was a 1920 clash in which a small Polish force mounted a desperate, sacrificial defense against advancing Soviet troops, earning it the nickname "the Polish Thermopylae."
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B.
Battle of Kliszów
The Battle of Kliszów was a major 1702 engagement in the Great Northern War in which Swedish forces under Charles XII defeated a larger Saxon-Polish army, reinforcing Sweden’s dominance in the early phase of the conflict.
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C.
Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski
The Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski was a major World War II engagement in September 1939 between Polish and German forces, notable as one of the largest battles of the German invasion of Poland.
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D.
Battle of Trzciana
The Battle of Trzciana was a 1629 clash during the Polish–Swedish War in which Polish–Lithuanian cavalry forces inflicted a rare and significant defeat on the army of Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus.
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E.
Battle of Kunowice
The Battle of Kunowice was a major 1759 engagement of the Seven Years' War in which a combined Russian and Austrian army inflicted a devastating defeat on Frederick the Great’s Prussian forces near Frankfurt an der Oder.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World War II battle
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battle ⓘ |
| belligerent |
Nazi Germany
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Second Polish Republic ⓘ |
| combatant |
German Army
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Polish Army ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | Poland ⓘ |
| date | September 1939 ⓘ |
| hasCause |
Invasion of Poland
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surface form:
German invasion of Poland in 1939
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| hasLanguageOfPrimarySources |
German
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Polish ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| involved | defence of mountain passes ⓘ |
| location |
Węgierska Górka
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southern Poland ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Polish defensive stand
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delaying German advance ⓘ |
| partOf | Invasion of Poland ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Invasion of Poland
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surface form:
German invasion of Poland
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| region | Silesian Voivodeship ⓘ |
| result | German victory ⓘ |
| theatre | European theatre of World War II ⓘ |
| typeOfEngagement | land battle ⓘ |
| usedFortifications | Węgierska Górka fortifications ⓘ |
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: Battle of Węgierska Górka Description of subject: The Battle of Węgierska Górka was a 1939 World War II engagement in southern Poland where Polish forces mounted a notable defensive stand against the invading German army.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.