Maximilian Schrems
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Maximilian Schrems is an Austrian privacy activist and lawyer known for his landmark legal challenges against Facebook that led to the invalidation of major EU–US data transfer frameworks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maximilian Schrems canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7779654 — 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: Maximilian Schrems Context triple: [EU–US Privacy Shield, wasChallengedBy, Maximilian Schrems]
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A.
Daniel Domscheit-Berg
Daniel Domscheit-Berg is a German technology activist and former WikiLeaks spokesperson who became known for his whistleblowing work and later critiques of the organization.
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B.
Julian Assange
Julian Assange is an Australian journalist, publisher, and activist best known as the founder of WikiLeaks, which released classified and sensitive documents from governments and organizations worldwide.
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C.
Daniel Assange
Daniel Assange is the son of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and has occasionally drawn public attention due to his father's high-profile legal and political controversies.
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D.
Viscount Snowden
Viscount Snowden was the noble title granted to Philip Snowden, a prominent British Labour politician who served as the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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E.
Maria Ressa
Maria Ressa is a Filipino-American journalist and co-founder of the news site Rappler, renowned for her investigative reporting on authoritarianism and disinformation and as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
- 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: Maximilian Schrems Target entity description: Maximilian Schrems is an Austrian privacy activist and lawyer known for his landmark legal challenges against Facebook that led to the invalidation of major EU–US data transfer frameworks.
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A.
Daniel Domscheit-Berg
Daniel Domscheit-Berg is a German technology activist and former WikiLeaks spokesperson who became known for his whistleblowing work and later critiques of the organization.
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B.
Julian Assange
Julian Assange is an Australian journalist, publisher, and activist best known as the founder of WikiLeaks, which released classified and sensitive documents from governments and organizations worldwide.
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C.
Daniel Assange
Daniel Assange is the son of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and has occasionally drawn public attention due to his father's high-profile legal and political controversies.
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D.
Viscount Snowden
Viscount Snowden was the noble title granted to Philip Snowden, a prominent British Labour politician who served as the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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E.
Maria Ressa
Maria Ressa is a Filipino-American journalist and co-founder of the news site Rappler, renowned for her investigative reporting on authoritarianism and disinformation and as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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privacy activist ⓘ |
| areaOfActivism |
consumer rights
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data protection rights ⓘ digital rights ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Austria ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1987-10-11 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Santa Clara University
NERFINISHED
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University of Vienna ⓘ |
| familyName | Schrems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
data protection
ⓘ
information technology law ⓘ privacy law ⓘ |
| founded | noyb – European Center for Digital Rights NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Maximilian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSocialMediaPresenceOn | Twitter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://noyb.eu ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
Schrems I judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union
NERFINISHED
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Schrems II judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Schrems I case
NERFINISHED
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Schrems II case NERFINISHED ⓘ challenging EU–US data transfer frameworks ⓘ legal actions against Facebook ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| legalActionFiledIn | Court of Justice of the European Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalCase |
Schrems I
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Schrems II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Maximilian Schrems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Austrian ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
contributed to invalidation of EU–US Privacy Shield framework
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contributed to invalidation of EU–US Safe Harbor framework ⓘ |
| notableWork |
complaint leading to invalidation of Privacy Shield
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complaint leading to invalidation of Safe Harbor ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
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author ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| opponentInLegalCase |
Facebook Ireland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Meta Platforms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Austria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Salzburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chair of noyb – European Center for Digital Rights ⓘ |
| residence |
Austria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vienna ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Maximilian Schrems Description of subject: Maximilian Schrems is an Austrian privacy activist and lawyer known for his landmark legal challenges against Facebook that led to the invalidation of major EU–US data transfer frameworks.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.