Hofkirchen (Passau district)
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Hofkirchen is a small Bavarian municipality in southeastern Germany, located in the Passau district of the state of Bavaria.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hofkirchen (Passau district) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8713407 — 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: Hofkirchen (Passau district) Context triple: [Passau (district), containsMunicipality, Hofkirchen (Passau district)]
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A.
Passau (district)
Passau (district) is a rural administrative district in Lower Bavaria, Germany, known for its picturesque landscapes along the rivers Inn, Ilz, and Danube and its proximity to the Austrian border.
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B.
Pfarrkirchen
Pfarrkirchen is a small Bavarian town in southeastern Germany known as the administrative center of the Rottal-Inn district.
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C.
Hof (Saale)
Hof (Saale) is a town in northeastern Bavaria, Germany, known as a regional center near the borders with Saxony and the Czech Republic.
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D.
municipality of Hofstetten
The municipality of Hofstetten is a small local administrative community in the Bavarian region of southern Germany.
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E.
Böheimkirchen
Böheimkirchen is a market town in Lower Austria known for its rural character and proximity to the state capital, St. Pölten.
- 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: Hofkirchen (Passau district) Target entity description: Hofkirchen is a small Bavarian municipality in southeastern Germany, located in the Passau district of the state of Bavaria.
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A.
Passau (district)
Passau (district) is a rural administrative district in Lower Bavaria, Germany, known for its picturesque landscapes along the rivers Inn, Ilz, and Danube and its proximity to the Austrian border.
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B.
Pfarrkirchen
Pfarrkirchen is a small Bavarian town in southeastern Germany known as the administrative center of the Rottal-Inn district.
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C.
Hof (Saale)
Hof (Saale) is a town in northeastern Bavaria, Germany, known as a regional center near the borders with Saxony and the Czech Republic.
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D.
municipality of Hofstetten
The municipality of Hofstetten is a small local administrative community in the Bavarian region of southern Germany.
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E.
Böheimkirchen
Böheimkirchen is a market town in Lower Austria known for its rural character and proximity to the state capital, St. Pölten.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
municipality of Germany ⓘ |
| administrativeRegion | Lower Bavaria ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Bavaria ⓘ |
| district | Passau (district) ⓘ |
| hasAreaCodeSystem | German telephone numbering plan ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentForm | municipal council ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalStatus | Gemeinde ⓘ |
| hasPostalCodeSystem | German postal code system ⓘ |
| hasSubdivisionType | Ortsteil ⓘ |
| hasVehicleRegistrationCode | PA ⓘ |
| isInTimeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
| isSubjectTo | Bavarian municipal law ⓘ |
| languageUsed | German ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bavaria
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ Lower Bavaria ⓘ Passau (district) ⓘ southeastern Germany ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | German ⓘ |
| partOf |
Bavaria
ⓘ
Federal Republic of Germany ⓘ
linked to:
Germany
Lower Bavaria ⓘ Passau (district) ⓘ |
| state | Bavaria ⓘ |
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: Hofkirchen (Passau district) Description of subject: Hofkirchen is a small Bavarian municipality in southeastern Germany, located in the Passau district of the state of Bavaria.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.