Perlasca
E751755
Perlasca is the surname of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian businessman who heroically saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust by posing as a Spanish diplomat.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Perlasca canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8700642 — 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: Perlasca Context triple: [Giorgio Perlasca, familyName, Perlasca]
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A.
Caselotti
Caselotti is an Italian surname most notably associated with Adriana Caselotti, the original voice of Snow White in Disney’s 1937 animated film.
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B.
Piovese
Piovese is the Italian demonym for inhabitants of Piove di Sacco, a town in the Veneto region of northern Italy.
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C.
Montenars
Montenars is a small municipality in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of northeastern Italy.
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D.
Bargnani
Bargnani is an Italian surname most prominently associated with former NBA basketball player Andrea Bargnani.
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E.
Brugnaro
Brugnaro is an Italian surname most notably associated with Luigi Brugnaro, a businessman and politician who has served as the Mayor of Venice.
- 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: Perlasca Target entity description: Perlasca is the surname of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian businessman who heroically saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust by posing as a Spanish diplomat.
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A.
Caselotti
Caselotti is an Italian surname most notably associated with Adriana Caselotti, the original voice of Snow White in Disney’s 1937 animated film.
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B.
Piovese
Piovese is the Italian demonym for inhabitants of Piove di Sacco, a town in the Veneto region of northern Italy.
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C.
Montenars
Montenars is a small municipality in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of northeastern Italy.
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D.
Bargnani
Bargnani is an Italian surname most prominently associated with former NBA basketball player Andrea Bargnani.
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E.
Brugnaro
Brugnaro is an Italian surname most notably associated with Luigi Brugnaro, a businessman and politician who has served as the Mayor of Venice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Padua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| claimedNationality | Spanish ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
memorials in Hungary
ⓘ
memorials in Italy ⓘ streets named after him in various cities ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Italy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Italy ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Italy ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1910-01-31 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1992-08-15 ⓘ |
| employer | Italian meat import-export company ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Italian ⓘ |
| familyName | Perlasca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Giorgio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeritageOrganization | Giorgio Perlasca Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honor |
Gold Medal for Civil Valor (Italy)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Honorary citizen of Israel ⓘ Medal of the Righteous (Israel) NERFINISHED ⓘ Righteous Among the Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology | anti-fascism ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Hungarian
ⓘ
Italian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| notableFor |
posing as a Spanish diplomat in Budapest
ⓘ
saving thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
rescuer of Jews ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Holocaust rescue of Hungarian Jews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Como NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Padua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protectedGroup | Hungarian Jews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| rescueLocation | Budapest ghetto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Budapest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Padua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
book "The Banality of Goodness: The Story of Giorgio Perlasca"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
film "Perlasca: An Italian Hero" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfActivity | 1944-1945 ⓘ |
| usedAlias | Jorge Perlasca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedDocumentType | Spanish protective passports ⓘ |
| workedAt | Spanish embassy in Budapest (de facto) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Perlasca Description of subject: Perlasca is the surname of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian businessman who heroically saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust by posing as a Spanish diplomat.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.