war criminal
C516
concept
A war criminal is an individual who has committed serious violations of the laws and customs of war, such as targeting civilians, mistreating prisoners, or using prohibited weapons, and can be held personally responsible under international law.
All labels observed (16)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| war criminal canonical | 123 |
| Nazi war criminal | 29 |
| convicted war criminal | 26 |
| A級戦犯 | 4 |
| war criminals | 3 |
| genocide perpetrator | 2 |
| perpetrator of the Holocaust | 2 |
| person convicted of war crimes | 2 |
| convicted genocidaire | 1 |
| perpetrator of genocide | 1 |
| perpetrator of war crimes | 1 |
| person convicted of crimes against peace | 1 |
| person executed for war crimes | 1 |
| war crimes defendant | 1 |
| war criminal suspect | 1 |
| 戦争犯罪人 | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: war criminal
Generated description
A war criminal is an individual who has committed serious violations of the laws and customs of war, such as targeting civilians, mistreating prisoners, or using prohibited weapons, and can be held personally responsible under international law.
Instances (188)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Dr. Christian Szell | Nazi war criminal |
| Karl von Le Suire | Nazi war criminal |
| Walter Kuntze | Nazi war criminal |
| Ferdinand Jodl | person convicted of war crimes |
| Einsatzgruppen | perpetrator of the Holocaust |
| Ernst Dehner | Nazi war criminal |
|
Oberheuser
surface form:
Herta Oberheuser
|
— |
| Paul Blobel | Nazi war criminal |
| Konstantin von Neurath | convicted war criminal |
| Herta Ehlert | — |
| Franz Hössler | — |
|
Field Marshal Georg von Küchler
surface form:
Georg von Küchler
|
Nazi war criminal |
| Adolf Hitler | — |
| Jean-Paul Akayesu | convicted war criminal |
| Jean Kambanda | convicted war criminal |
| Elisabeth Volkenrath | Nazi war criminal |
| Christian Wirth | — |
| Ernst von Leyser | — |
| Josef Kramer | — |
|
Aichach
surface form:
Ilse Koch
|
Nazi war criminal |
| Siegfried Handloser | Nazi war criminal |
| Fritz Fischer | — |
| Théoneste Bagosora | convicted war criminal |
| Ludwig Hahn | — |
| Carl Krauch | — |
| 東條 英機 | A級戦犯 |
|
Schöngarth
surface form:
Eberhard Schöngarth
|
— |
| Rudolf Hermann Brandt | — |
| Dragoljub Kunarac | convicted war criminal |
| Radomir Kovač | — |
| Zoran Vuković | — |
| Walter Reder | — |
| Maks Luburić | — |
| Viktors Arājs | — |
|
Jeckeln
surface form:
Friedrich Jeckeln
|
— |
|
SS officer Kurt Franz
surface form:
Kurt Franz
|
Nazi war criminal |
| Otto Ohlendorf | — |
|
HeinrichHimmler
surface form:
Heinrich Himmler
|
— |