Bezirk Cottbus
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Bezirk Cottbus was an administrative district in the former East Germany, located in the southeast of the country and centered around the city of Cottbus.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bezirk Cottbus canonical | 3 |
| Cottbus region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5569526 — 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: Bezirk Cottbus Context triple: [Bezirk Potsdam, borderedBy, Bezirk Cottbus]
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A.
Bezirk Dresden
Bezirk Dresden was an administrative district centered on the city of Dresden that functioned as one of the key regional divisions of the former East Germany.
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B.
Bezirk Gera
Bezirk Gera was an administrative district of the former East Germany, centered around the city of Gera in the state of Thuringia.
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C.
Bezirk Leipzig
Bezirk Leipzig was an administrative district in the former East Germany centered around the city of Leipzig.
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D.
Bezirk Schwerin
Bezirk Schwerin was an administrative district in the former East Germany, centered around the city of Schwerin and existing from the 1952 territorial reform until German reunification in 1990.
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E.
Bezirk Neubrandenburg
Bezirk Neubrandenburg was an administrative district in the former East Germany, centered on the city of Neubrandenburg in the northeastern part of the country.
- 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: Bezirk Cottbus Target entity description: Bezirk Cottbus was an administrative district in the former East Germany, located in the southeast of the country and centered around the city of Cottbus.
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A.
Bezirk Dresden
Bezirk Dresden was an administrative district centered on the city of Dresden that functioned as one of the key regional divisions of the former East Germany.
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B.
Bezirk Gera
Bezirk Gera was an administrative district of the former East Germany, centered around the city of Gera in the state of Thuringia.
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C.
Bezirk Leipzig
Bezirk Leipzig was an administrative district in the former East Germany centered around the city of Leipzig.
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D.
Bezirk Schwerin
Bezirk Schwerin was an administrative district in the former East Germany, centered around the city of Schwerin and existing from the 1952 territorial reform until German reunification in 1990.
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E.
Bezirk Neubrandenburg
Bezirk Neubrandenburg was an administrative district in the former East Germany, centered on the city of Neubrandenburg in the northeastern part of the country.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bezirk of East Germany
ⓘ
former administrative district ⓘ |
| abolishedBy | German reunification NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| area | approximately 8,300 square kilometres ⓘ |
| bordersWith |
Bezirk Dresden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bezirk Frankfurt (Oder) NERFINISHED ⓘ Bezirk Leipzig NERFINISHED ⓘ Bezirk Potsdam NERFINISHED ⓘ Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Cottbus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Bad Liebenwerda
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Burg (Spreewald) NERFINISHED ⓘ Calau NERFINISHED ⓘ Cottbus NERFINISHED ⓘ Finsterwalde NERFINISHED ⓘ Forst (Lausitz) NERFINISHED ⓘ Guben NERFINISHED ⓘ Herzberg (Elster) NERFINISHED ⓘ Hoyerswerda NERFINISHED ⓘ Lauchhammer NERFINISHED ⓘ Luckau NERFINISHED ⓘ Lübben NERFINISHED ⓘ Lübbenau NERFINISHED ⓘ Schwarze Pumpe NERFINISHED ⓘ Senftenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Spremberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Weißwasser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsRegion |
Lower Lusatia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
parts of Upper Lusatia ⓘ |
| country | German Democratic Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1990 ⓘ |
| established | 1952 ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Free State of Saxony
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State of Brandenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ State of Saxony-Anhalt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageUsed | German ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
East Germany
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ southeastern East Germany ⓘ |
| minorityLanguageRegion | Lower Sorbian ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Cottbus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfAdministrativeReform | 1952 East German district reform ⓘ |
| population | approximately 900,000 (late 1980s) ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicSectors |
agriculture
ⓘ
energy production ⓘ lignite mining ⓘ textile industry ⓘ |
| replaced | State of Brandenburg (East Germany) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Bezirk Cottbus Description of subject: Bezirk Cottbus was an administrative district in the former East Germany, located in the southeast of the country and centered around the city of Cottbus.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cottbus region