Paul von Hindenburg
E19271
Paul von Hindenburg was a German field marshal who became a national hero in World War I and later served as President of Germany, ultimately appointing Adolf Hitler as chancellor.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul von Hindenburg canonical | 55 |
| Ferdinand von Hindenburg | 1 |
| Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg | 1 |
| Oskar von Hindenburg | 1 |
| Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T141323 — 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: Paul von Hindenburg Context triple: [World War I, notableCommander, Paul von Hindenburg]
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A.
Karl Dönitz
Karl Dönitz was a German admiral who led the U-boat campaign in World War II and briefly served as Nazi Germany’s last head of state after Hitler’s death.
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B.
Wilhelm II, German Emperor
Wilhelm II, German Emperor, was the last German Kaiser and King of Prussia, whose aggressive foreign and military policies contributed to the outbreak of World War I and ultimately led to the collapse of the German Empire.
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C.
Konrad Adenauer
Konrad Adenauer was a German statesman who led the postwar reconstruction and Western integration of Germany, serving as a key architect of modern German democracy and European unity.
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D.
Hugo Sperrle
Hugo Sperrle was a senior German Luftwaffe field marshal who played a major role in air operations during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, including the Battle of Britain.
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E.
Albert Speer
Albert Speer was a German architect and Nazi official who served as Adolf Hitler’s chief architect and later as Minister of Armaments and War Production, becoming one of the most prominent defendants at the Nuremberg trials.
- 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: Paul von Hindenburg Target entity description: Paul von Hindenburg was a German field marshal who became a national hero in World War I and later served as President of Germany, ultimately appointing Adolf Hitler as chancellor.
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A.
Karl Dönitz
Karl Dönitz was a German admiral who led the U-boat campaign in World War II and briefly served as Nazi Germany’s last head of state after Hitler’s death.
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B.
Wilhelm II, German Emperor
Wilhelm II, German Emperor, was the last German Kaiser and King of Prussia, whose aggressive foreign and military policies contributed to the outbreak of World War I and ultimately led to the collapse of the German Empire.
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C.
Konrad Adenauer
Konrad Adenauer was a German statesman who led the postwar reconstruction and Western integration of Germany, serving as a key architect of modern German democracy and European unity.
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D.
Hugo Sperrle
Hugo Sperrle was a senior German Luftwaffe field marshal who played a major role in air operations during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, including the Battle of Britain.
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E.
Albert Speer
Albert Speer was a German architect and Nazi official who served as Adolf Hitler’s chief architect and later as Minister of Armaments and War Production, becoming one of the most prominent defendants at the Nuremberg trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German military officer
ⓘ
President of Germany ⓘ field marshal ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| appointed | Adolf Hitler ⓘ |
| appointedPosition | Chancellor of Germany ⓘ |
| appointmentDate | 1933-01-30 ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Iron Cross
ⓘ
Order of the Black Eagle ⓘ Pour le Mérite ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1847-10-02 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Prussia
ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Prussia
Poznań ⓘ
surface form:
Posen
Province of Posen ⓘ
surface form:
Prussian Province of Posen
now Poznań, Poland ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Tannenberg Memorial ⓘ |
| child |
Paul von Hindenburg
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Oskar von Hindenburg
|
| conflict |
Franco-Prussian War
ⓘ
World War I ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
German Empire
ⓘ
Prussia ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Prussia
Weimar Republic ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1934-08-02 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
East Prussia
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ Neudeck ⓘ |
| electedIn |
German presidential election, 1925
ⓘ
German presidential election, 1932 ⓘ |
| familyName | von Hindenburg ⓘ |
| fullName |
Paul von Hindenburg
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg
|
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Imperial German Army
ⓘ
Prussian Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
Generalfeldmarschall
ⓘ
surface form:
Field Marshal
Generalfeldmarschall ⓘ |
| notableFor |
German national hero status after World War I
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enabling Adolf Hitler’s rise to power ⓘ role in the collapse of the Weimar Republic ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Command at the Battle of Tannenberg
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Command on the Eastern Front in World War I ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | conservative ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief of the General Staff
ⓘ
surface form:
Chief of the German General Staff
President of Germany ⓘ President of Germany ⓘ
surface form:
President of the German Reich
Supreme Commander of the German Armed Forces ⓘ |
| religion | Lutheranism ⓘ |
| spouse | Gertrud von Hindenburg ⓘ |
| termEnd | 1934-08-02 ⓘ |
| termStart | 1925-05-12 ⓘ |
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: Paul von Hindenburg Description of subject: Paul von Hindenburg was a German field marshal who became a national hero in World War I and later served as President of Germany, ultimately appointing Adolf Hitler as chancellor.
Referenced by (59)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg
this entity surface form:
Oskar von Hindenburg
subject surface form:
Eastern Front (World War I)
this entity surface form:
Ferdinand von Hindenburg
this entity surface form:
Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg