Karl von Pirch I
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Karl von Pirch I was a Prussian general best known for commanding a corps in the Napoleonic Wars, including at the Battle of Waterloo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Karl von Pirch I canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9981454 — 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: Karl von Pirch I Context triple: [Prussian II Corps, notableCommander, Karl von Pirch I]
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A.
Günther von Schwarzburg
Günther von Schwarzburg was a 14th-century German nobleman who briefly served as a rival King of the Romans during a contested imperial succession.
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B.
Heinrich von Puttkamer
Heinrich von Puttkamer was a Prussian nobleman and landowner from the influential Puttkamer family, known primarily as the father of Johanna von Puttkamer, the wife of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.
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C.
Adrian von Bubenberg
Adrian von Bubenberg was a 15th-century Swiss nobleman and military leader renowned for his defense of the city of Murten during the Burgundian Wars.
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D.
Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld
Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld was the German-born prince who became the consort of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and played a prominent role in Dutch public life in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Rudolf of Rheinfelden
Rudolf of Rheinfelden was an 11th-century Duke of Swabia who became a leading rival king to Henry IV of Germany and a central figure in the power struggle between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire.
- 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: Karl von Pirch I Target entity description: Karl von Pirch I was a Prussian general best known for commanding a corps in the Napoleonic Wars, including at the Battle of Waterloo.
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A.
Günther von Schwarzburg
Günther von Schwarzburg was a 14th-century German nobleman who briefly served as a rival King of the Romans during a contested imperial succession.
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B.
Heinrich von Puttkamer
Heinrich von Puttkamer was a Prussian nobleman and landowner from the influential Puttkamer family, known primarily as the father of Johanna von Puttkamer, the wife of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.
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C.
Adrian von Bubenberg
Adrian von Bubenberg was a 15th-century Swiss nobleman and military leader renowned for his defense of the city of Murten during the Burgundian Wars.
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D.
Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld
Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld was the German-born prince who became the consort of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and played a prominent role in Dutch public life in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Rudolf of Rheinfelden
Rudolf of Rheinfelden was an 11th-century Duke of Swabia who became a leading rival king to Henry IV of Germany and a central figure in the power struggle between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Prussian general
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human ⓘ |
| conflict |
Napoleonic Wars
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Waterloo campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Prussia
ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Prussia
|
| employer | Prussian Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | von Pirch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
military leadership
ⓘ
military strategy ⓘ |
| givenName | Karl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
general
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ |
| hasTitle | General ⓘ |
| militaryAllegiance | Kingdom of Prussia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Prussian Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | General of Infantry ⓘ |
| movement | Prussian military tradition ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | German ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | von ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
command of II Corps at Waterloo
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participation in the defeat of Napoleon in 1815 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding a Prussian corps in the Napoleonic Wars
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role in the Battle of Waterloo ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Command of II Corps at the Battle of Waterloo
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Command of a Prussian corps in the Waterloo campaign ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Ligny
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Waterloo NERFINISHED ⓘ Napoleonic Wars ⓘ War of the Seventh Coalition NERFINISHED ⓘ War of the Sixth Coalition NERFINISHED ⓘ Waterloo campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Prussian forces under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Prussian general officer
ⓘ
corps commander ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early 19th century
ⓘ
late 18th century ⓘ |
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: Karl von Pirch I Description of subject: Karl von Pirch I was a Prussian general best known for commanding a corps in the Napoleonic Wars, including at the Battle of Waterloo.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.