Free Imperial City of Regensburg
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The Free Imperial City of Regensburg was a self-governing city-state within the Holy Roman Empire, located on the Danube in present-day Bavaria and known as an important political and commercial center.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Free Imperial City of Regensburg canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7453105 — 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: Free Imperial City of Regensburg Context triple: [Truce of Ratisbon, signedAt, Free Imperial City of Regensburg]
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A.
Old Town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof
Old Town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof is a UNESCO World Heritage-listed medieval cityscape in Bavaria, Germany, renowned for its exceptionally well-preserved architecture and testimony to the region’s trading and cultural history.
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B.
Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire
The Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire was a self-governing urban polity that owed allegiance directly to the emperor rather than to any intermediate territorial lord.
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C.
Free Imperial City of Speyer
The Free Imperial City of Speyer was a self-governing city-state of the Holy Roman Empire, notable as a major medieval ecclesiastical and judicial center on the Upper Rhine.
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D.
Imperial City of Friedberg
The Imperial City of Friedberg was a self-governing Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire located in what is now the German state of Hesse.
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E.
Imperial City of Wetzlar
The Imperial City of Wetzlar was a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire, historically notable as a legal and administrative center that hosted the Empire’s highest court, the Reichskammergericht.
- 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: Free Imperial City of Regensburg Target entity description: The Free Imperial City of Regensburg was a self-governing city-state within the Holy Roman Empire, located on the Danube in present-day Bavaria and known as an important political and commercial center.
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A.
Old Town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof
Old Town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof is a UNESCO World Heritage-listed medieval cityscape in Bavaria, Germany, renowned for its exceptionally well-preserved architecture and testimony to the region’s trading and cultural history.
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B.
Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire
The Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire was a self-governing urban polity that owed allegiance directly to the emperor rather than to any intermediate territorial lord.
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C.
Free Imperial City of Speyer
The Free Imperial City of Speyer was a self-governing city-state of the Holy Roman Empire, notable as a major medieval ecclesiastical and judicial center on the Upper Rhine.
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D.
Imperial City of Friedberg
The Imperial City of Friedberg was a self-governing Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire located in what is now the German state of Hesse.
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E.
Imperial City of Wetzlar
The Imperial City of Wetzlar was a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire, historically notable as a legal and administrative center that hosted the Empire’s highest court, the Reichskammergericht.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former state
ⓘ
free imperial city ⓘ |
| capital | Regensburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coatOfArms | coat of arms of Regensburg ⓘ |
| country | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| currency |
South German gulden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
kreuzer ⓘ |
| dissolvedOrAbolished | 1803 ⓘ |
| endTime | 1803 ⓘ |
| event | German mediatization ⓘ |
| followedBy | Principality of Regensburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType |
free imperial city government
ⓘ
republic ⓘ |
| hasJurisdictionOver | urban territory of Regensburg ⓘ |
| hasLegalStatus | Reichsstadt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLegislature | city council of Regensburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
commercial center
ⓘ
political center ⓘ trading hub on the Danube ⓘ |
| hasStatus | Imperial immediacy ⓘ |
| headOfGovernment | Bürgermeister of Regensburg ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bavaria
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ Regensburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Danube River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Imperial Cities of the Holy Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Imperial Diet sessions in Regensburg
ⓘ
long-distance trade on the Danube ⓘ |
| partOf |
Holy Roman Empire
ⓘ
Imperial Circles of the Holy Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Swabian Circle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Bishopric of Regensburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sovereign | Holy Roman Emperor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime |
1245
ⓘ
13th century ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Early modern period
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Middle Ages ⓘ |
| todayPartOf |
Federal Republic of Germany
NERFINISHED
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Free State of Bavaria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedLanguage |
German
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Latin ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Free Imperial City of Regensburg Description of subject: The Free Imperial City of Regensburg was a self-governing city-state within the Holy Roman Empire, located on the Danube in present-day Bavaria and known as an important political and commercial center.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.