Jan Karski
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Jan Karski was a Polish World War II resistance courier and later academic renowned for bringing early eyewitness reports of the Holocaust to the Allied governments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jan Karski canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4755415 — 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: Jan Karski Context triple: [Wallenberg Medal, hasRecipient, Jan Karski]
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A.
Władysław Bartoszewski
Władysław Bartoszewski was a Polish historian, writer, Auschwitz survivor, resistance member, and postwar statesman renowned for his efforts to aid Jews during World War II and for his later role in democratic Poland’s foreign policy.
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B.
Irena Sendler
Irena Sendler was a Polish social worker and World War II resistance member who saved thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto by smuggling them to safety and preserving their identities.
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C.
Emanuel Ringelblum
Emanuel Ringelblum was a Polish-Jewish historian who led the clandestine Oyneg Shabes archive project, documenting life and atrocities in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust.
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D.
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński was a prominent Polish writer, literary critic, and renowned translator of French literature, as well as a practicing physician and outspoken social commentator of the early 20th century.
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E.
Zygmunt Gorgolewski
Zygmunt Gorgolewski was a Polish architect of the late 19th century, best known for designing prominent public buildings in Central and Eastern Europe, including the Lviv Opera House.
- 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: Jan Karski Target entity description: Jan Karski was a Polish World War II resistance courier and later academic renowned for bringing early eyewitness reports of the Holocaust to the Allied governments.
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A.
Władysław Bartoszewski
Władysław Bartoszewski was a Polish historian, writer, Auschwitz survivor, resistance member, and postwar statesman renowned for his efforts to aid Jews during World War II and for his later role in democratic Poland’s foreign policy.
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B.
Irena Sendler
Irena Sendler was a Polish social worker and World War II resistance member who saved thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto by smuggling them to safety and preserving their identities.
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C.
Emanuel Ringelblum
Emanuel Ringelblum was a Polish-Jewish historian who led the clandestine Oyneg Shabes archive project, documenting life and atrocities in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust.
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D.
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński was a prominent Polish writer, literary critic, and renowned translator of French literature, as well as a practicing physician and outspoken social commentator of the early 20th century.
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E.
Zygmunt Gorgolewski
Zygmunt Gorgolewski was a Polish architect of the late 19th century, best known for designing prominent public buildings in Central and Eastern Europe, including the Lviv Opera House.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Polish resistance member
ⓘ
World War II courier ⓘ human ⓘ political scientist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Order of Polonia Restituta
NERFINISHED
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Order of the White Eagle NERFINISHED ⓘ Presidential Medal of Freedom NERFINISHED ⓘ Righteous Among the Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ Virtuti Militari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Jan Kozielewski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Poland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Kingdom of Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1914-06-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2000-07-13 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
School of Political Science in Warsaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Georgetown University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Karski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | political science ⓘ |
| genre | memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | Jan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Poles ⓘ |
| knownFor |
missions as courier of the Polish Underground State
ⓘ
reporting early eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to Allied leaders ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
Polish ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Home Army
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Polish Underground State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| metWith | Franklin D. Roosevelt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Second Lieutenant ⓘ |
| movement | Polish Underground State courier network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Story of a Secret State NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
courier
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diplomat ⓘ resistance fighter ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Polish resistance movement in World War II
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Łódź NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Mount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| reportedTo |
British government
NERFINISHED
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United States government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Pola Nireńska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Jan Karski Description of subject: Jan Karski was a Polish World War II resistance courier and later academic renowned for bringing early eyewitness reports of the Holocaust to the Allied governments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.