Karl Berngardovich Sobelsohn
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Karl Berngardovich Sobelsohn, better known as Karl Radek, was a prominent Polish-born Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist, and Soviet political figure active in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Karl Berngardovich Sobelsohn canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5525489 — 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: Karl Berngardovich Sobelsohn Context triple: [Karl Radek, birthName, Karl Berngardovich Sobelsohn]
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Otto Rosenfeld
Otto Rosenfeld, better known as Otto Rank, was an influential Austrian psychoanalyst and close early collaborator of Sigmund Freud who became a pioneering theorist of creativity, will, and the psychology of birth trauma.
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B.
Adolf Berman
Adolf Berman was a Polish Jewish activist, Holocaust survivor, and politician known for his role in the Jewish resistance and postwar advocacy for survivors’ rights.
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C.
Eduard Holtzman
Eduard Holtzman was one of the defendants prosecuted in the 1936 Soviet "Trial of the Sixteen," a major Stalinist show trial targeting alleged members of the Trotskyist opposition.
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D.
Joseph Salzmann
Joseph Salzmann was a 19th-century Roman Catholic priest and educator known for his role in developing clerical education in the United States.
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E.
Hermann Schapira
Hermann Schapira was a 19th-century Lithuanian-Jewish mathematician and early Zionist thinker who was among the first to propose the establishment of a Jewish national fund for land purchase in Palestine.
- 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: Karl Berngardovich Sobelsohn Target entity description: Karl Berngardovich Sobelsohn, better known as Karl Radek, was a prominent Polish-born Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist, and Soviet political figure active in the early 20th century.
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A.
Otto Rosenfeld
Otto Rosenfeld, better known as Otto Rank, was an influential Austrian psychoanalyst and close early collaborator of Sigmund Freud who became a pioneering theorist of creativity, will, and the psychology of birth trauma.
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B.
Adolf Berman
Adolf Berman was a Polish Jewish activist, Holocaust survivor, and politician known for his role in the Jewish resistance and postwar advocacy for survivors’ rights.
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C.
Eduard Holtzman
Eduard Holtzman was one of the defendants prosecuted in the 1936 Soviet "Trial of the Sixteen," a major Stalinist show trial targeting alleged members of the Trotskyist opposition.
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D.
Joseph Salzmann
Joseph Salzmann was a 19th-century Roman Catholic priest and educator known for his role in developing clerical education in the United States.
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E.
Hermann Schapira
Hermann Schapira was a 19th-century Lithuanian-Jewish mathematician and early Zionist thinker who was among the first to propose the establishment of a Jewish national fund for land purchase in Palestine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bolshevik
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Soviet politician ⓘ communist ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ revolutionary ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Karl Radek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName |
Karl Berngardovich Sobelsohn
NERFINISHED
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Karl Bernhardovich Sobelsohn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Russian Empire
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Soviet Union ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1885 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1939 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Jews
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Poles ⓘ |
| familyName | Sobelsohn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Karl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Polish
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Russian ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Bolshevik Party
NERFINISHED
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Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ Russian Social Democratic Labour Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
Bolshevism
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communism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Soviet political activities in the early 20th century
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journalistic work in the Soviet Union ⓘ role in the Bolshevik movement ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Bolshevik revolutionary leader
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Soviet journalist ⓘ Soviet political figure ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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politician ⓘ revolutionary ⓘ |
| patronymicName | Berngardovich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalIdeology |
Leninism
NERFINISHED
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Marxism ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Russia
NERFINISHED
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Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Karl Berngardovich Sobelsohn Description of subject: Karl Berngardovich Sobelsohn, better known as Karl Radek, was a prominent Polish-born Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist, and Soviet political figure active in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.