Walter Schwimmer
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Walter Schwimmer is an Austrian diplomat and politician best known for serving as Secretary General of the Council of Europe from 1999 to 2004.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter Schwimmer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T632553 — 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 Schwimmer Context triple: [Secretary General of the Council of Europe, officeHolder, Walter Schwimmer]
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A.
Eddie Albert
Eddie Albert was an American actor best known for his roles in film and television, particularly the sitcom "Green Acres" and numerous classic Hollywood movies.
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B.
Adolph Green
Adolph Green was an American playwright, lyricist, and screenwriter best known for his long collaboration with Betty Comden on classic Broadway musicals and Hollywood films.
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C.
Mort Goldman
Mort Goldman is a neurotic, bespectacled Jewish pharmacist and recurring comic relief character on the animated television series Family Guy.
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D.
Norman Lloyd
Norman Lloyd was an American actor, producer, and director whose career in film, television, and theater spanned more than eight decades.
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E.
Roy Harlow
Roy Harlow was the husband of silent film actress Marie Mosquini, known primarily in relation to her career in early American cinema.
- 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 Schwimmer Target entity description: Walter Schwimmer is an Austrian diplomat and politician best known for serving as Secretary General of the Council of Europe from 1999 to 2004.
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A.
Eddie Albert
Eddie Albert was an American actor best known for his roles in film and television, particularly the sitcom "Green Acres" and numerous classic Hollywood movies.
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B.
Adolph Green
Adolph Green was an American playwright, lyricist, and screenwriter best known for his long collaboration with Betty Comden on classic Broadway musicals and Hollywood films.
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C.
Mort Goldman
Mort Goldman is a neurotic, bespectacled Jewish pharmacist and recurring comic relief character on the animated television series Family Guy.
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D.
Norman Lloyd
Norman Lloyd was an American actor, producer, and director whose career in film, television, and theater spanned more than eight decades.
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E.
Roy Harlow
Roy Harlow was the husband of silent film actress Marie Mosquini, known primarily in relation to her career in early American cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
diplomat
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Austria ⓘ |
| employer | Council of Europe ⓘ |
| endTime | 2004 ⓘ |
| familyName | Schwimmer ⓘ |
| givenName | Walter ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as Secretary General of the Council of Europe ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of the Council of Europe from 1999 to 2004 ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Secretary General of the Council of Europe ⓘ |
| startTime | 1999 ⓘ |
| workLocation | Strasbourg ⓘ |
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: Walter Schwimmer Description of subject: Walter Schwimmer is an Austrian diplomat and politician best known for serving as Secretary General of the Council of Europe from 1999 to 2004.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.