Auguste van Pels
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Auguste van Pels was a Jewish woman who hid with Anne Frank’s family in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation and later died in the Holocaust.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Auguste van Pels canonical | 19 |
| Augustine van Pels | 1 |
| Gusti van Pels | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2845531 — 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: Auguste van Pels Context triple: [Hermann van Pels, wentIntoHidingWith, Auguste van Pels]
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A.
Hermann van Pels
Hermann van Pels was a German-Jewish businessman who went into hiding with Anne Frank’s family in Amsterdam and was later murdered in the Holocaust.
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B.
Peter van Pels
Peter van Pels was a Jewish teenager who hid from the Nazis in the Secret Annex with Anne Frank and is remembered through her famous diary.
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C.
Miep Gies
Miep Gies was an Austrian-born Dutch woman who helped hide Anne Frank and her family during World War II and preserved Anne’s diary after their arrest.
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D.
Otto Frank
Otto Frank was a German-born Jewish businessman and the father of diarist Anne Frank, who was the only immediate family member to survive the Holocaust and later helped publish her famous diary.
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E.
Margot Frank
Margot Frank was the elder sister of diarist Anne Frank and one of the Jewish victims who went into hiding with her family in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam before perishing in 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: Auguste van Pels Target entity description: Auguste van Pels was a Jewish woman who hid with Anne Frank’s family in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation and later died in the Holocaust.
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A.
Hermann van Pels
Hermann van Pels was a German-Jewish businessman who went into hiding with Anne Frank’s family in Amsterdam and was later murdered in the Holocaust.
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B.
Peter van Pels
Peter van Pels was a Jewish teenager who hid from the Nazis in the Secret Annex with Anne Frank and is remembered through her famous diary.
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C.
Miep Gies
Miep Gies was an Austrian-born Dutch woman who helped hide Anne Frank and her family during World War II and preserved Anne’s diary after their arrest.
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D.
Otto Frank
Otto Frank was a German-born Jewish businessman and the father of diarist Anne Frank, who was the only immediate family member to survive the Holocaust and later helped publish her famous diary.
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E.
Margot Frank
Margot Frank was the elder sister of diarist Anne Frank and one of the Jewish victims who went into hiding with her family in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam before perishing in the Holocaust.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German Jew
ⓘ
Holocaust victim ⓘ person ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Auguste Röttgen
ⓘ
Auguste van Pels ⓘ
surface form:
Gusti van Pels
Peter van Pels ⓘ
surface form:
Petronella van Daan
|
| arrestedIn |
Amsterdam
ⓘ
surface form:
Amsterdam, Netherlands
|
| arrestedOn | 1944-08-04 ⓘ |
| birthName | Auguste Röttgen ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | conditions in a Nazi concentration camp ⓘ |
| child | Peter van Pels ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | Netherlands ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1900-09-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1945-04 ⓘ |
| deportedTo |
AuschwitzBirkenau
ⓘ
surface form:
Auschwitz concentration camp
Westerbork transit camp ⓘ |
| emigratedTo | Netherlands ⓘ |
| endOfHiding | 1944-08-04 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName |
Röttgen
ⓘ
van Pels ⓘ |
| fictionalizedAs |
Peter van Pels
ⓘ
surface form:
Petronella van Daan
|
| fledFrom | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| givenName | Auguste ⓘ |
| hidWith |
Anne Frank
ⓘ
Edith Frank ⓘ Fritz Pfeffer ⓘ Margot Frank ⓘ Otto Frank ⓘ |
| imprisonedIn |
AuschwitzBirkenau
ⓘ
surface form:
Auschwitz concentration camp
BergenBelsen ⓘ
surface form:
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Westerbork transit camp ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
Dutch
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| locationOfHiding |
Secret Annex
ⓘ
surface form:
Secret Annex, Prinsengracht 263, Amsterdam
|
| notableFor | Hiding with Anne Frank and her family in the Secret Annex ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Brühl, Germany
ⓘ
surface form:
Buer, Germany
|
| placeOfDeath |
BergenBelsen
ⓘ
surface form:
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
|
| portrayedIn |
The Diary of Anne Frank
ⓘ
surface form:
The Diary of a Young Girl
|
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Amsterdam
ⓘ
surface form:
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Osnabrück ⓘ
surface form:
Osnabrück, Germany
|
| spouse | Hermann van Pels ⓘ |
| startOfHiding | 1942-07 ⓘ |
| victimOf |
Holocaust
ⓘ
Nazi persecution of Jews ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Auguste van Pels Description of subject: Auguste van Pels was a Jewish woman who hid with Anne Frank’s family in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation and later died in the Holocaust.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
this entity surface form:
Augustine van Pels
this entity surface form:
Gusti van Pels