Des Teufels General
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Des Teufels General is a German drama film, based on Carl Zuckmayer’s play, that portrays a conflicted Luftwaffe general in Nazi Germany and is best known for starring Curt Jürgens in the title role.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Devil’s General | 3 |
| Des Teufels General canonical | 1 |
| Des Teufels General (stage role) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12752066 — 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: Des Teufels General Context triple: [Curt Jürgens, notableWork, Des Teufels General]
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A.
The Devil Commands
The Devil Commands is a 1941 American horror film in which a scientist’s experiments with communicating with the dead lead to terrifying consequences.
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B.
Scourge of Hell
Scourge of Hell is a fearsome epithet for the Doom Slayer, emphasizing his relentless and devastating crusade against demonic forces in the Doom video game series.
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C.
El Diablo
El Diablo is the famous nickname of Bolivian football legend Marco Etcheverry, a creative attacking midfielder renowned for his playmaking skills.
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D.
El Diablo
El Diablo is a metahuman antihero in DC Comics known for his powerful pyrokinetic abilities and conflicted, remorseful nature, prominently featured in the film Suicide Squad.
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E.
The Demon
"The Demon" is a narrative poem by Russian Romantic writer Mikhail Lermontov that tells the tragic love story between a fallen spirit and a mortal Georgian princess.
- 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: Des Teufels General Target entity description: Des Teufels General is a German drama film, based on Carl Zuckmayer’s play, that portrays a conflicted Luftwaffe general in Nazi Germany and is best known for starring Curt Jürgens in the title role.
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A.
The Devil Commands
The Devil Commands is a 1941 American horror film in which a scientist’s experiments with communicating with the dead lead to terrifying consequences.
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B.
Scourge of Hell
Scourge of Hell is a fearsome epithet for the Doom Slayer, emphasizing his relentless and devastating crusade against demonic forces in the Doom video game series.
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C.
El Diablo
El Diablo is the famous nickname of Bolivian football legend Marco Etcheverry, a creative attacking midfielder renowned for his playmaking skills.
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D.
El Diablo
El Diablo is a metahuman antihero in DC Comics known for his powerful pyrokinetic abilities and conflicted, remorseful nature, prominently featured in the film Suicide Squad.
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E.
The Demon
"The Demon" is a narrative poem by Russian Romantic writer Mikhail Lermontov that tells the tragic love story between a fallen spirit and a mortal Georgian princess.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German drama film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Des Teufels General (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Carl Zuckmayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Albert Benitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | West Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Helmut Käutner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | theatrical film ⓘ |
| distributor | Herzog-Filmverleih NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Klaus Dudenhöfer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationOf | Des Teufels General (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Hamburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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war drama film ⓘ |
| hasOriginalTitle | Des Teufels General NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| leadCharacterName | General Harras NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Luftwaffe general
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Nazi Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Werner Eisbrenner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCastMember |
Karl John
NERFINISHED
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Liselotte Pulver NERFINISHED ⓘ Marianne Koch NERFINISHED ⓘ Viktor de Kowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| portrays |
German resistance to Nazism
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conflicted Wehrmacht officer ⓘ |
| producer | Gyula Trebitsch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Real Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1955 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 115 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Carl Zuckmayer
NERFINISHED
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Helmut Käutner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInCountry | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| starring | Curt Jürgens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleRolePlayedBy | Curt Jürgens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Des Teufels General Description of subject: Des Teufels General is a German drama film, based on Carl Zuckmayer’s play, that portrays a conflicted Luftwaffe general in Nazi Germany and is best known for starring Curt Jürgens in the title role.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Devil’s General
this entity surface form:
The Devil’s General
this entity surface form:
Des Teufels General (stage role)
this entity surface form:
The Devil’s General