Jacob Heym
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Jacob Heym is the fictional Jewish shopkeeper in a World War II ghetto who becomes a reluctant symbol of hope by spreading invented news in the story "Jacob the Liar."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacob Heym canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17018109 — 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: Jacob Heym Context triple: [Jacob the Liar (1999 film), mainCharacter, Jacob Heym]
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A.
Oskar
Oskar is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in various European countries.
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B.
Georg Dreyman
Georg Dreyman is a prominent East German playwright in the film "The Lives of Others," whose life and work become the focus of Stasi surveillance and moral conflict.
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C.
Kurt Student
Kurt Student was a German Luftwaffe general and pioneer of airborne forces who played a key role in developing and leading Nazi Germany’s paratrooper units during World War II.
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D.
Felix Krull
Felix Krull is the charming, quick-witted con artist and social climber who narrates Thomas Mann’s picaresque novel "The Confessions of Felix Krull."
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E.
Rudolf Havenstein
Rudolf Havenstein was the president of Germany’s Reichsbank during the early Weimar Republic, best known for overseeing monetary policy during the hyperinflation crisis of the early 1920s.
- 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: Jacob Heym Target entity description: Jacob Heym is the fictional Jewish shopkeeper in a World War II ghetto who becomes a reluctant symbol of hope by spreading invented news in the story "Jacob the Liar."
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A.
Oskar
Oskar is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in various European countries.
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B.
Georg Dreyman
Georg Dreyman is a prominent East German playwright in the film "The Lives of Others," whose life and work become the focus of Stasi surveillance and moral conflict.
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C.
Kurt Student
Kurt Student was a German Luftwaffe general and pioneer of airborne forces who played a key role in developing and leading Nazi Germany’s paratrooper units during World War II.
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D.
Felix Krull
Felix Krull is the charming, quick-witted con artist and social climber who narrates Thomas Mann’s picaresque novel "The Confessions of Felix Krull."
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E.
Rudolf Havenstein
Rudolf Havenstein was the president of Germany’s Reichsbank during the early Weimar Republic, best known for overseeing monetary policy during the hyperinflation crisis of the early 1920s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Jacob the Liar