Hosenfeld
E502087
Hosenfeld is a German surname most notably associated with Wilm Hosenfeld, a Wehrmacht officer known for helping to save Jews during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hosenfeld canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5187751 — 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: Hosenfeld Context triple: [Wilm Hosenfeld, familyName, Hosenfeld]
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A.
Heurich
Heurich is a German surname most notably associated with Christian Heurich, a prominent brewer and businessman in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Zaslofsky
Zaslofsky is a surname most notably associated with Max Zaslofsky, an early star guard in the National Basketball Association.
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C.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
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D.
Schatzberg
Schatzberg is a surname most notably associated with Jerry Schatzberg, an American photographer and film director known for works like "Panic in Needle Park" and "Scarecrow."
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E.
Heissler
Heissler is a German-language surname most notably associated with the animated character Klaus Heissler from the television series "American Dad!".
- 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: Hosenfeld Target entity description: Hosenfeld is a German surname most notably associated with Wilm Hosenfeld, a Wehrmacht officer known for helping to save Jews during World War II.
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A.
Heurich
Heurich is a German surname most notably associated with Christian Heurich, a prominent brewer and businessman in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Zaslofsky
Zaslofsky is a surname most notably associated with Max Zaslofsky, an early star guard in the National Basketball Association.
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C.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
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D.
Schatzberg
Schatzberg is a surname most notably associated with Jerry Schatzberg, an American photographer and film director known for works like "Panic in Needle Park" and "Scarecrow."
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E.
Heissler
Heissler is a German-language surname most notably associated with the animated character Klaus Heissler from the television series "American Dad!".
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Germany
ⓘ
Poland ⓘ |
| employer | German Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName | Hosenfeld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Wilm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Wehrmacht ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Wilm Hosenfeld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
assisting Polish civilians in occupied Warsaw
ⓘ
helping the Polish-Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman ⓘ helping to save Jews during the Holocaust ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ pianist ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Warsaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | Righteous Among the Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | Yad Vashem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholic ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | Germany ⓘ |
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: Hosenfeld Description of subject: Hosenfeld is a German surname most notably associated with Wilm Hosenfeld, a Wehrmacht officer known for helping to save Jews during World War II.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Wilm Hosenfeld
subject surface form:
Wilm Hosenfeld