Fall Blau
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Fall Blau was the German Wehrmacht’s 1942 summer offensive on the Eastern Front aimed at capturing the oil fields of the Caucasus and advancing toward Stalingrad during World War II.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T166626 — 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: Fall Blau Context triple: [Case Blue, alsoKnownAs, Fall Blau]
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A.
Fall Weiss
Fall Weiss was the codename for Nazi Germany’s military plan to invade Poland in September 1939, marking the beginning of World War II in Europe.
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B.
Leto
Leto is a Titaness in Greek mythology best known as the mother of the twin Olympian deities Apollo and Artemis.
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C.
Yaz
Yaz is the famous nickname of Carl Yastrzemski, the Hall of Fame left fielder and first baseman who spent his entire Major League Baseball career with the Boston Red Sox.
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D.
Leaf Storm
Leaf Storm is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez that introduces the fictional town of Macondo and explores themes of solitude, memory, and moral conflict.
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E.
Irises
Irises is a famous 1889 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting a vibrant cluster of blooming irises, celebrated for its expressive color and dynamic composition.
- 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: Fall Blau Target entity description: Fall Blau was the German Wehrmacht’s 1942 summer offensive on the Eastern Front aimed at capturing the oil fields of the Caucasus and advancing toward Stalingrad during World War II.
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A.
Fall Weiss
Fall Weiss was the codename for Nazi Germany’s military plan to invade Poland in September 1939, marking the beginning of World War II in Europe.
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B.
Leto
Leto is a Titaness in Greek mythology best known as the mother of the twin Olympian deities Apollo and Artemis.
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C.
Yaz
Yaz is the famous nickname of Carl Yastrzemski, the Hall of Fame left fielder and first baseman who spent his entire Major League Baseball career with the Boston Red Sox.
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D.
Leaf Storm
Leaf Storm is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez that introduces the fictional town of Macondo and explores themes of solitude, memory, and moral conflict.
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E.
Irises
Irises is a famous 1889 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting a vibrant cluster of blooming irises, celebrated for its expressive color and dynamic composition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Wehrmacht operation
ⓘ
World War II Eastern Front campaign ⓘ military offensive ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Case Blue
ⓘ
Unternehmen Blau ⓘ |
| belligerent | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| commander |
Adolf Hitler
ⓘ
Ewald von Kleist ⓘ Fedor von Bock ⓘ Hermann Hoth ⓘ Maximilian von Weichs ⓘ Wilhelm List ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| consequence |
Battle of Stalingrad
ⓘ
encirclement of German 6th Army at Stalingrad ⓘ heavy German losses ⓘ shift of strategic initiative to the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| countryInvolved |
Germany
ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ |
| endDate | 1942-11 ⓘ |
| followedBy | Soviet Operation Uranus ⓘ |
| location |
Caucasus
ⓘ
Don River region ⓘ Southern sector of the Eastern Front ⓘ Stalingrad ⓘ Volga region ⓘ
surface form:
Volga River region
southern Russia ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
German Army
ⓘ
Luftwaffe ⓘ |
| objective |
capture of the Caucasus oil fields
ⓘ
cutting Soviet supply lines along the Volga ⓘ securing oil resources for the German war effort ⓘ seizure of Stalingrad ⓘ |
| opposedBy | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| opposingCommander |
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
ⓘ
Georgy Zhukov ⓘ Joseph Stalin ⓘ Semyon Timoshenko ⓘ |
| partOf |
Eastern Front
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Front of World War II
|
| plannedBy |
Wehrmacht High Command
ⓘ
surface form:
German High Command
|
| precededBy | Operation Barbarossa ⓘ |
| result |
German strategic failure
ⓘ
Soviet strategic victory ⓘ |
| startDate | 1942-06-28 ⓘ |
| strategicContext | German need for oil and resources ⓘ |
| subOperation |
Operation Braunschweig
ⓘ
Operation Edelweiss ⓘ Operation Braunschweig ⓘ
surface form:
Operation Fischreiher
|
| year | 1942 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Fall Blau Description of subject: Fall Blau was the German Wehrmacht’s 1942 summer offensive on the Eastern Front aimed at capturing the oil fields of the Caucasus and advancing toward Stalingrad during World War II.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Case Blue
this entity surface form:
Fall Rot