Otto Leipzig
E267928
Otto Leipzig is a minor but pivotal informant and former agent in John le Carré’s espionage novel "Smiley’s People," known for triggering George Smiley’s final investigation into the Soviet spymaster Karla.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Otto Leipzig canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2250437 — 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: Otto Leipzig Context triple: [Smiley’s People, character, Otto Leipzig]
-
A.
Otto Hofmann
Otto Hofmann was a high-ranking SS official and head of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office who played a role in implementing Nazi racial policies during the Holocaust.
-
B.
Friedrich Bonte
Friedrich Bonte was a German Kriegsmarine officer and flotilla leader who commanded the German destroyer forces during the early World War II naval operations in Norway.
-
C.
Friedrich Eberhardt
Friedrich Eberhardt was a German military officer who commanded forces during the early stages of World War II, including operations in the 1939 invasion of Poland.
-
D.
Heinrich Eberbach
Heinrich Eberbach was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II, noted for his leadership of armored formations on the Eastern Front and in the Normandy campaign.
-
E.
Rudolf Lange
Rudolf Lange was a high-ranking SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator who played a key role in mass shootings in Latvia and participated in the Wannsee Conference that coordinated the "Final Solution."
- 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: Otto Leipzig Target entity description: Otto Leipzig is a minor but pivotal informant and former agent in John le Carré’s espionage novel "Smiley’s People," known for triggering George Smiley’s final investigation into the Soviet spymaster Karla.
-
A.
Otto Hofmann
Otto Hofmann was a high-ranking SS official and head of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office who played a role in implementing Nazi racial policies during the Holocaust.
-
B.
Friedrich Bonte
Friedrich Bonte was a German Kriegsmarine officer and flotilla leader who commanded the German destroyer forces during the early World War II naval operations in Norway.
-
C.
Friedrich Eberhardt
Friedrich Eberhardt was a German military officer who commanded forces during the early stages of World War II, including operations in the 1939 invasion of Poland.
-
D.
Heinrich Eberbach
Heinrich Eberbach was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II, noted for his leadership of armored formations on the Eastern Front and in the Normandy campaign.
-
E.
Rudolf Lange
Rudolf Lange was a high-ranking SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator who played a key role in mass shootings in Latvia and participated in the Wannsee Conference that coordinated the "Final Solution."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
informant ⓘ literary character ⓘ spy ⓘ |
| alignment | Western intelligence ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Smiley’s People (novel)
ⓘ
surface form:
Smiley’s People
|
| appearsInSeries | George Smiley series ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
George Smiley
ⓘ
Karla ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalContext |
Soviet Union
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | John le Carré ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Smiley’s People (novel)
ⓘ
surface form:
Smiley’s People
|
| genre | espionage fiction ⓘ |
| involvedIn | Cold War espionage ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryFranchise | Karla Trilogy ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | catalyst for main investigation ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| occupation | intelligence agent ⓘ |
| roleInPlot |
former agent
ⓘ
pivotal informant ⓘ |
| triggers | George Smiley’s final investigation into Karla ⓘ |
| universe | George Smiley universe ⓘ |
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: Otto Leipzig Description of subject: Otto Leipzig is a minor but pivotal informant and former agent in John le Carré’s espionage novel "Smiley’s People," known for triggering George Smiley’s final investigation into the Soviet spymaster Karla.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Smiley’s People