Heinz Jost
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Heinz Jost was a high-ranking SS officer and early member of the Nazi Party who served as a senior Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and Einsatzgruppe commander during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Heinz Jost canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4674633 — 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: Heinz Jost Context triple: [Amt III, notableCommander, Heinz Jost]
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A.
Hans Waldmann
Hans Waldmann was a 15th-century Swiss military leader and later mayor of Zurich, noted for his prominent role in the Burgundian Wars and his controversial political career that ended in execution.
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B.
Heinz Ziegler
Heinz Ziegler was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II who held several high-level command positions, including leadership roles associated with the 21st Panzer Division.
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C.
Günther Sabetzki
Günther Sabetzki was a prominent German ice hockey executive and long-serving president of the International Ice Hockey Federation who played a key role in modernizing and internationalizing the sport.
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D.
Hans Hellmut Kirst
Hans Hellmut Kirst was a German novelist best known for his satirical and critical works about the Nazi era and the German military.
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E.
Gerhard Schöpfel
Gerhard Schöpfel was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace of World War II who became a high-scoring pilot and commander on the Western Front.
- 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: Heinz Jost Target entity description: Heinz Jost was a high-ranking SS officer and early member of the Nazi Party who served as a senior Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and Einsatzgruppe commander during World War II.
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A.
Hans Waldmann
Hans Waldmann was a 15th-century Swiss military leader and later mayor of Zurich, noted for his prominent role in the Burgundian Wars and his controversial political career that ended in execution.
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B.
Heinz Ziegler
Heinz Ziegler was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II who held several high-level command positions, including leadership roles associated with the 21st Panzer Division.
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C.
Günther Sabetzki
Günther Sabetzki was a prominent German ice hockey executive and long-serving president of the International Ice Hockey Federation who played a key role in modernizing and internationalizing the sport.
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D.
Hans Hellmut Kirst
Hans Hellmut Kirst was a German novelist best known for his satirical and critical works about the Nazi era and the German military.
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E.
Gerhard Schöpfel
Gerhard Schöpfel was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace of World War II who became a high-scoring pilot and commander on the Western Front.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German military officer
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Nazi official ⓘ SS officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| affiliation | Reich Main Security Office NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
crimes against humanity
ⓘ
war crimes ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | German Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | West Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1904-07-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1964-11-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Giessen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Marburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Nazi Germany
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Reich Security Main Office NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Jost NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | law ⓘ |
| givenName | Heinz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology | Nazism ⓘ |
| joined |
Nazi Party in 1928
ⓘ
SS in 1932 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Nazi Party
ⓘ
Schutzstaffel (SS) ⓘ
surface form:
Schutzstaffel
Sicherheitsdienst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | SS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of Einsatzgruppe A in the occupied Soviet Union ⓘ |
| occupation |
intelligence officer
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ police official ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Einsatzgruppen trial
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Holocaust NERFINISHED ⓘ Nazi crimes against humanity ⓘ World War II ⓘ |
| perpetratorOf |
crimes against humanity
ⓘ
mass murder of civilians in Eastern Europe ⓘ war crimes ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Homberg (Efze) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Bensheim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDetention | Landsberg Prison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Einsatzgruppe commander
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chief of Amt VI of the RSHA ⓘ commander of Einsatzgruppe A ⓘ head of foreign intelligence of the RSHA ⓘ |
| rank |
Generalmajor der Polizei
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SS-Brigadeführer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
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| sentence | life imprisonment (later reduced) ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| triedBy | United States military tribunal at Nuremberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 - 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: Heinz Jost Description of subject: Heinz Jost was a high-ranking SS officer and early member of the Nazi Party who served as a senior Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and Einsatzgruppe commander during World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.