Leberecht Maass
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Leberecht Maass was a German Imperial Navy admiral who commanded destroyer forces in the early stages of World War I and was killed in action during the Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1914.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Leberecht Maass canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10200457 — 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: Leberecht Maass Context triple: [First Battle of Heligoland Bight, GermanCommander, Leberecht Maass]
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A.
Friedrich von Ingenohl
Friedrich von Ingenohl was a German admiral who led the Imperial German High Seas Fleet during the early years of World War I.
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B.
Karl Philipp von Wrede
Karl Philipp von Wrede was a Bavarian field marshal and prominent military leader during the Napoleonic Wars, known for his shifting alliances and key role in battles such as Leipzig and Hanau.
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C.
Otto von Lossow
Otto von Lossow was a Bavarian army officer and Reichswehr general who played a key role in the political tensions surrounding the early Weimar Republic, including events leading up to and during the Beer Hall Putsch.
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D.
Friedrich Kohl
Friedrich Kohl is a relatively obscure individual known primarily for sharing the surname associated with more prominent figures like former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
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E.
Dietrich Adolf von der Recke
Dietrich Adolf von der Recke was a 17th-century German nobleman and ecclesiastical prince who served as Prince-Bishop of Paderborn within the Holy Roman Empire.
- 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: Leberecht Maass Target entity description: Leberecht Maass was a German Imperial Navy admiral who commanded destroyer forces in the early stages of World War I and was killed in action during the Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1914.
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A.
Friedrich von Ingenohl
Friedrich von Ingenohl was a German admiral who led the Imperial German High Seas Fleet during the early years of World War I.
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B.
Karl Philipp von Wrede
Karl Philipp von Wrede was a Bavarian field marshal and prominent military leader during the Napoleonic Wars, known for his shifting alliances and key role in battles such as Leipzig and Hanau.
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C.
Otto von Lossow
Otto von Lossow was a Bavarian army officer and Reichswehr general who played a key role in the political tensions surrounding the early Weimar Republic, including events leading up to and during the Beer Hall Putsch.
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D.
Friedrich Kohl
Friedrich Kohl is a relatively obscure individual known primarily for sharing the surname associated with more prominent figures like former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
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E.
Dietrich Adolf von der Recke
Dietrich Adolf von der Recke was a 17th-century German nobleman and ecclesiastical prince who served as Prince-Bishop of Paderborn within the Holy Roman Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German military personnel
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admiral ⓘ human ⓘ naval officer ⓘ |
| activeDuring | World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| allegiance | German Empire ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| commanded |
German destroyer forces
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German torpedo boat flotillas ⓘ |
| conflict |
Battle of Heligoland Bight
NERFINISHED
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World War I ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | German Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1914-08-28 ⓘ |
| deathDuring | Battle of Heligoland Bight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathYear | 1914 ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Maass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Leberecht NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Admiral ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Imperial German Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
Konteradmiral
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Rear Admiral ⓘ |
| militaryUnit | High Seas Fleet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Leberecht Maass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first German flag officer killed in World War I
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commanding German destroyer forces in early World War I ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Battle of Heligoland Bight
NERFINISHED
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World War I ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | North Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | Imperial German Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Kaiserliche Marine 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: Leberecht Maass Description of subject: Leberecht Maass was a German Imperial Navy admiral who commanded destroyer forces in the early stages of World War I and was killed in action during the Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1914.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.