Walter Haut
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Walter Haut was a former U.S. Army Air Force public information officer best known for issuing the 1947 Roswell UFO press release and later co-founding the International UFO Museum and Research Center.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter Haut canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10374459 — 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: Walter Haut Context triple: [International UFO Museum and Research Center, foundedBy, Walter Haut]
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A.
Walter Darre
Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after World War II.
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B.
Walter Eckland
Walter Eckland is the gruff, reluctant hero and boozy beachcomber-turned-lookout portrayed by Cary Grant in the World War II comedy film "Father Goose."
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C.
Mack Gerhardt
Mack Gerhardt is a central character in the television series "The Unit," known as a tough and highly skilled member of an elite U.S. Army special operations team.
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D.
Walter Nelson
Walter Nelson was an attorney who served on the defense team in the landmark Ossian Sweet murder trial, which challenged racial injustice in 1920s Detroit.
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E.
Walter Fries
Walter Fries was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II who commanded armored and infantry units on multiple fronts, including in the Mediterranean theater.
- 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: Walter Haut Target entity description: Walter Haut was a former U.S. Army Air Force public information officer best known for issuing the 1947 Roswell UFO press release and later co-founding the International UFO Museum and Research Center.
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A.
Walter Darre
Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after World War II.
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B.
Walter Eckland
Walter Eckland is the gruff, reluctant hero and boozy beachcomber-turned-lookout portrayed by Cary Grant in the World War II comedy film "Father Goose."
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C.
Mack Gerhardt
Mack Gerhardt is a central character in the television series "The Unit," known as a tough and highly skilled member of an elite U.S. Army special operations team.
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D.
Walter Nelson
Walter Nelson was an attorney who served on the defense team in the landmark Ossian Sweet murder trial, which challenged racial injustice in 1920s Detroit.
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E.
Walter Fries
Walter Fries was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II who commanded armored and infantry units on multiple fronts, including in the Mediterranean theater.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
American Campaign Medal
NERFINISHED
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Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ World War II Victory Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | International UFO Museum and Research Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1922-02-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2005-12-15 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Illinois (attended, did not complete) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | United States Army Air Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
public relations
ⓘ
ufology ⓘ |
| genre |
UFO research promotion
ⓘ
ufology ⓘ |
| hasCauseOfDeath | age-related illness ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Jewish Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPartInWrittenWork | Roswell incident affidavits ⓘ |
| hasRole | press officer in Roswell Army Air Field ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Roswell UFO incident
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
co-founding the International UFO Museum and Research Center ⓘ issuing the 1947 Roswell UFO press release ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Roswell Army Air Field public information office NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army Air Forces ⓘ |
| militaryRank | lieutenant ⓘ |
| militaryUnit | 509th Composite Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent | 1947 Roswell incident press conference ⓘ |
| notableWork |
1947 Roswell Army Air Field flying disc press release
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Roswell Army Air Field press release dated 8 July 1947 ⓘ sealed affidavit about the Roswell incident ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
ⓘ
public information officer ⓘ public relations officer ⓘ |
| participantIn |
World War II
ⓘ
atomic bombing mission announcements (public information role) ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | South Park Cemetery, Roswell, New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Roswell, New Mexico, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfWork |
International UFO Museum and Research Center
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roswell Army Air Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | public information officer at Roswell Army Air Field ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Roswell, New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Carole Haut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Roswell, New Mexico 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: Walter Haut Description of subject: Walter Haut was a former U.S. Army Air Force public information officer best known for issuing the 1947 Roswell UFO press release and later co-founding the International UFO Museum and Research Center.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.