Gütersloh
E486915
Gütersloh is a city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia known for being the headquarters of major companies like Bertelsmann and Miele.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gütersloh canonical | 8 |
| Gütersloh, Germany | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2123805 — 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: Gütersloh Context triple: [Châteauroux, twinTown, Gütersloh]
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A.
Bielefeld
Bielefeld is a major city in northwestern Germany known for its industrial heritage, university, and the tongue-in-cheek “Bielefeld conspiracy” meme claiming it does not exist.
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B.
Osnabrück
Osnabrück is a historic city in Lower Saxony, Germany, known for its medieval architecture and role in the Peace of Westphalia.
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C.
Detmold
Detmold is a historic town in northwestern Germany that served as the capital and residence city of the former Principality of Lippe.
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D.
Paderborn
Paderborn is a historic city in western Germany known for its medieval cathedral, role as a regional religious and cultural center, and strategic importance during World War II.
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E.
Iserlohn
Iserlohn is a city in the Märkischer Kreis district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, known historically for its role in World War II and its metalworking and industrial heritage.
- 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: Gütersloh Target entity description: Gütersloh is a city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia known for being the headquarters of major companies like Bertelsmann and Miele.
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A.
Bielefeld
Bielefeld is a major city in northwestern Germany known for its industrial heritage, university, and the tongue-in-cheek “Bielefeld conspiracy” meme claiming it does not exist.
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B.
Osnabrück
Osnabrück is a historic city in Lower Saxony, Germany, known for its medieval architecture and role in the Peace of Westphalia.
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C.
Detmold
Detmold is a historic town in northwestern Germany that served as the capital and residence city of the former Principality of Lippe.
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D.
Paderborn
Paderborn is a historic city in western Germany known for its medieval cathedral, role as a regional religious and cultural center, and strategic importance during World War II.
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E.
Iserlohn
Iserlohn is a city in the Märkischer Kreis district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, known historically for its role in World War II and its metalworking and industrial heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode | 05241 ⓘ |
| climate | temperate oceanic climate ⓘ |
| coordinateLatitude | 51.906 ⓘ |
| coordinateLongitude | 8.378 ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Gütersloh Air Base NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCompany |
Bertelsmann
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Miele NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalInstitution | Theater Gütersloh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution |
Evangelisch Stiftisches Gymnasium Gütersloh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Städtisches Gymnasium Gütersloh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
household appliance manufacturing
ⓘ
media industry ⓘ printing industry ⓘ |
| hasNotableCompany |
Arvato
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bertelsmann Printing Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailwayStation | Gütersloh Hauptbahnhof NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTwinTown |
Broxtowe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Châteauroux NERFINISHED ⓘ Falun NERFINISHED ⓘ Grudziądz NERFINISHED ⓘ Rivne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersOf |
Bertelsmann
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Miele NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isDistrictCapitalOf | Gütersloh district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Detmold region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gütersloh district NERFINISHED ⓘ North Rhine-Westphalia ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricalRegion | Westphalia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRiverBasin | Ems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
UTC+1
ⓘ
UTC+2 ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Bielefeld
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paderborn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | German ⓘ |
| partOf |
European Union
ⓘ
Federal Republic of Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode |
33330
ⓘ
33332 ⓘ 33334 ⓘ 33335 ⓘ |
| timeZone |
CEST
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
CET ⓘ |
| vehicleRegistrationCode | GT ⓘ |
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: Gütersloh Description of subject: Gütersloh is a city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia known for being the headquarters of major companies like Bertelsmann and Miele.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Gütersloh, Germany
this entity surface form:
Gütersloh, Germany