Peter Behrens
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Peter Behrens was a pioneering German architect and designer whose industrial, graphic, and architectural work helped shape early modernism and influenced figures like Le Corbusier, Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Behrens canonical | 28 |
| Peter Behrens buildings | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T104455 — 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: Peter Behrens Context triple: [Le Corbusier, employer, Peter Behrens]
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A.
Herbert Bayer
Herbert Bayer was an Austrian-American graphic designer, painter, photographer, and influential Bauhaus teacher known for pioneering modernist typography and visual communication.
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B.
Wilhelm Stuckart
Wilhelm Stuckart was a senior Nazi lawyer and state secretary in the Reich Ministry of the Interior who helped draft the Nuremberg Laws and contributed to the legal framework of the Holocaust.
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C.
Paul Rand
Paul Rand was a pioneering American graphic designer renowned for creating iconic corporate logos and shaping modern visual identity design.
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D.
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier was a pioneering 20th-century Swiss-French architect and urban planner whose influential modernist designs and theories helped shape contemporary architecture worldwide.
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E.
Josef Bühler
Josef Bühler was a high-ranking Nazi official and lawyer who served as State Secretary in the General Government of occupied Poland and played a key role in implementing the Holocaust.
- 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: Peter Behrens Target entity description: Peter Behrens was a pioneering German architect and designer whose industrial, graphic, and architectural work helped shape early modernism and influenced figures like Le Corbusier, Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe.
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A.
Herbert Bayer
Herbert Bayer was an Austrian-American graphic designer, painter, photographer, and influential Bauhaus teacher known for pioneering modernist typography and visual communication.
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B.
Wilhelm Stuckart
Wilhelm Stuckart was a senior Nazi lawyer and state secretary in the Reich Ministry of the Interior who helped draft the Nuremberg Laws and contributed to the legal framework of the Holocaust.
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C.
Paul Rand
Paul Rand was a pioneering American graphic designer renowned for creating iconic corporate logos and shaping modern visual identity design.
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D.
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier was a pioneering 20th-century Swiss-French architect and urban planner whose influential modernist designs and theories helped shape contemporary architecture worldwide.
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E.
Josef Bühler
Josef Bühler was a high-ranking Nazi official and lawyer who served as State Secretary in the General Government of occupied Poland and played a key role in implementing the Holocaust.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Peter Behrens Description of subject: Peter Behrens was a pioneering German architect and designer whose industrial, graphic, and architectural work helped shape early modernism and influenced figures like Le Corbusier, Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Peter Behrens buildings
subject surface form:
Deutscher Werkbund