Wilm Hosenfeld

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Wilm Hosenfeld was a German Wehrmacht officer known for secretly helping and ultimately saving Polish Jews, most famously the pianist Władysław Szpilman, during World War II.

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Label Occurrences
Wilm Hosenfeld canonical 2

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf German Army officer
Righteous Among the Nations
Wehrmacht officer
human
alsoKnownAs Wilhelm Adalbert Hosenfeld NERFINISHED
basedOnAccountOf memoir "The Pianist" by Władysław Szpilman NERFINISHED
birthCountry German Empire NERFINISHED
birthDate 1895-05-02
birthPlace Mackenzell NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath consequences of imprisonment in Soviet captivity
citizenship Germany
conflict World War II
countryOfService Germany NERFINISHED
deathCountry Soviet Union NERFINISHED
deathDate 1952-08-13
deathPlace Stalingrad prisoner-of-war camp NERFINISHED
detainedBy Soviet Union NERFINISHED
familyName Hosenfeld NERFINISHED
gender male
givenName Wilhelm
helpedRescue Polish Jews in Warsaw
Władysław Szpilman NERFINISHED
other persecuted Poles
ideology initially supported National Socialism
languageSpoken German
laterOpposed Nazi crimes against Jews and Poles
memberOf German Army NERFINISHED
militaryBranch Wehrmacht
militaryRank Hauptmann
moralStance expressed remorse for Nazi atrocities in his diaries
name Wilm Hosenfeld NERFINISHED
nationality German
notableFor helping Władysław Szpilman survive in Warsaw
saving Polish Jews during the Holocaust
numberOfChildren 5
occupation military officer
placeOfActivity General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland) NERFINISHED
Warsaw NERFINISHED
portrayedBy Thomas Kretschmann NERFINISHED
portrayedIn film "The Pianist" NERFINISHED
recognizedAs Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem NERFINISHED
religion Roman Catholicism
residenceDuringWar Warsaw NERFINISHED
spouse Annmarie Hosenfeld NERFINISHED
witnessed persecution of Jews in Warsaw
wrote diaries about life in occupied Poland
yearOfYadVashemRecognition 2009

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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
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- 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: Wilm Hosenfeld
Description of subject: Wilm Hosenfeld was a German Wehrmacht officer known for secretly helping and ultimately saving Polish Jews, most famously the pianist Władysław Szpilman, during World War II.

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The Pianist notableCharacter Wilm Hosenfeld
Hauptmann Wilm Hosenfeld name Wilm Hosenfeld
subject surface form: Wilm Hosenfeld