Georg Elser
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Georg Elser was a German carpenter and resistance fighter who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1939 by planting a time bomb in a Munich beer hall.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Georg Elser canonical | 11 |
| Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland | 1 |
| Johann Georg Elser | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1132962 — 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: Georg Elser Context triple: [Sachsenhausen concentration camp, notablePrisoner, Georg Elser]
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A.
Marinus van der Lubbe
Marinus van der Lubbe was a Dutch communist who was controversially convicted and executed by Nazi Germany for allegedly setting the Reichstag fire in 1933.
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B.
Jürgen Stroop
Jürgen Stroop was a high-ranking Nazi SS officer notorious for brutally suppressing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and overseeing the mass murder of its Jewish inhabitants.
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C.
Kurt Franz
Kurt Franz was a high-ranking SS officer and one of the principal perpetrators of the Holocaust, notorious for his brutal role in the mass murder of Jews at the Treblinka extermination camp.
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D.
Otto Ohlendorf
Otto Ohlendorf was a high-ranking SS officer and leader of Einsatzgruppe D, responsible for mass murders during the Holocaust and later convicted as a war criminal at the Nuremberg Trials.
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E.
Ernst Thälmann
Ernst Thälmann was a German communist politician and longtime leader of the Communist Party of Germany who became a prominent anti-fascist figure and was executed by the Nazis in 1944.
- 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: Georg Elser Target entity description: Georg Elser was a German carpenter and resistance fighter who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1939 by planting a time bomb in a Munich beer hall.
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A.
Marinus van der Lubbe
Marinus van der Lubbe was a Dutch communist who was controversially convicted and executed by Nazi Germany for allegedly setting the Reichstag fire in 1933.
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B.
Jürgen Stroop
Jürgen Stroop was a high-ranking Nazi SS officer notorious for brutally suppressing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and overseeing the mass murder of its Jewish inhabitants.
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C.
Kurt Franz
Kurt Franz was a high-ranking SS officer and one of the principal perpetrators of the Holocaust, notorious for his brutal role in the mass murder of Jews at the Treblinka extermination camp.
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D.
Otto Ohlendorf
Otto Ohlendorf was a high-ranking SS officer and leader of Einsatzgruppe D, responsible for mass murders during the Holocaust and later convicted as a war criminal at the Nuremberg Trials.
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E.
Ernst Thälmann
Ernst Thälmann was a German communist politician and longtime leader of the Communist Party of Germany who became a prominent anti-fascist figure and was executed by the Nazis in 1944.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German resistance fighter
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carpenter ⓘ human ⓘ |
| arrestedAt | Swiss border near Konstanz ⓘ |
| arrestedOn | 1939-11-08 ⓘ |
| birthCountry | German Empire ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1903-01-04 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Hermaringen ⓘ |
| bombExploded | 1939-11-08 21:20 CET ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution by shooting ⓘ |
| citizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | 1939-11-08 ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1945-04-09 ⓘ |
| detainedIn |
Dachau concentration camp
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linked to:
Dachau
Sachsenhausen concentration camp ⓘ |
| executedAt |
Dachau concentration camp
ⓘ
linked to:
Dachau
|
| executedBy | SS ⓘ |
| familyName | Elser ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Johann ⓘ |
| hasWorkAbout |
Film "13 Minutes"
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Film "Elser – Er hätte die Welt verändert" ⓘ |
| HitlerLeftHall | about 13 minutes before explosion ⓘ |
| ideology | anti-Nazism ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Nazi persecution and rearmament ⓘ |
| knownFor | acting alone in planning the 1939 bomb plot ⓘ |
| memorial |
Georg Elser Gedenkstätte, Hermaringen
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Georg Elser Memorial, Berlin ⓘ |
| movement | German resistance to Nazism ⓘ |
| name |
Johann Georg Elser
ⓘ
linked to:
Georg Elser
|
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| notableFor | assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler ⓘ |
| occupation |
cabinetmaker
ⓘ
carpenter ⓘ |
| placeOfEvent |
Bürgerbräukeller, Munich
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linked to:
Bürgerbräukeller beer hall
|
| planned | assassination attempt in Bürgerbräukeller ⓘ |
| politicalView | anti-militarist ⓘ |
| recognizedPosthumouslyAs | resistance hero ⓘ |
| religion | Protestantism ⓘ |
| residence | Königsbronn ⓘ |
| target | Adolf Hitler ⓘ |
| usedWeapon | time bomb ⓘ |
| victimsOfBombing | 8 people killed at Bürgerbräukeller ⓘ |
| workedAs |
factory worker
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watchmaker’s assistant ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Georg Elser Description of subject: Georg Elser was a German carpenter and resistance fighter who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1939 by planting a time bomb in a Munich beer hall.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Georg Elser
linked to: Georg Elser
subject linked to:
Film "13 Minutes"
subject linked to:
Film "13 Minutes"
subject linked to:
Film "Elser – Er hätte die Welt verändert"
subject linked to:
Film "Elser – Er hätte die Welt verändert"
subject linked to:
Film "Elser – Er hätte die Welt verändert"