Gustav Mahn
E474877
Gustav Mahn was an individual interred at Hamburg’s Ohlsdorf Cemetery, one of the world’s largest rural cemeteries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gustav Mahn canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4839779 — 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: Gustav Mahn Context triple: [Ohlsdorf Cemetery, burialPlaceOf, Gustav Mahn]
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A.
Eduard Meyer
Eduard Meyer was a prominent German historian and classical scholar known for his influential works on ancient history and historiography.
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B.
Ferdinand Mangold
Ferdinand Mangold was a 19th-century landscape designer known for shaping the picturesque grounds of prominent American estates such as Lyndhurst Mansion.
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C.
Johannes Peter Wagner
Johannes Peter Wagner, better known as Honus Wagner, was a legendary early 20th-century American Major League Baseball shortstop widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the sport’s history.
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D.
Gustav Anton von Wietersheim
Gustav Anton von Wietersheim was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II who held senior command positions in the early campaigns of the war.
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E.
Gerhard
Gerhard is a masculine given name of German origin, historically common in German-speaking countries.
- 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: Gustav Mahn Target entity description: Gustav Mahn was an individual interred at Hamburg’s Ohlsdorf Cemetery, one of the world’s largest rural cemeteries.
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A.
Eduard Meyer
Eduard Meyer was a prominent German historian and classical scholar known for his influential works on ancient history and historiography.
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B.
Ferdinand Mangold
Ferdinand Mangold was a 19th-century landscape designer known for shaping the picturesque grounds of prominent American estates such as Lyndhurst Mansion.
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C.
Johannes Peter Wagner
Johannes Peter Wagner, better known as Honus Wagner, was a legendary early 20th-century American Major League Baseball shortstop widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the sport’s history.
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D.
Gustav Anton von Wietersheim
Gustav Anton von Wietersheim was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II who held senior command positions in the early campaigns of the war.
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E.
Gerhard
Gerhard is a masculine given name of German origin, historically common in German-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cemetery
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Hamburg
NERFINISHED
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Ohlsdorf Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Hamburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Gustav Mahn Description of subject: Gustav Mahn was an individual interred at Hamburg’s Ohlsdorf Cemetery, one of the world’s largest rural cemeteries.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.