Field Marshal Alfred von Waldersee
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Field Marshal Alfred von Waldersee was a prominent Prussian-German military leader who served as the supreme commander of the international expeditionary forces during the Boxer Rebellion in China.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alfred von Waldersee | 2 |
| Alfred Heinrich Karl Ludwig von Waldersee | 1 |
| Field Marshal Alfred von Waldersee canonical | 1 |
| von Waldersee | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1236429 — 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: Field Marshal Alfred von Waldersee Context triple: [Boxer Rebellion, significantPerson, Field Marshal Alfred von Waldersee]
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A.
Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz
Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz was a prominent Prussian field marshal and military theorist who served as a senior German advisor and commander in the Ottoman Empire during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Ōkuma Shigenobu
Ōkuma Shigenobu was a prominent Japanese statesman of the Meiji era who served twice as prime minister and played a key role in Japan’s modernization and constitutional government.
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Field Marshal Georg von Küchler
Field Marshal Georg von Küchler was a senior German Wehrmacht commander during World War II, best known for leading major operations on the Eastern Front.
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D.
Aleksey Kuropatkin
Aleksey Kuropatkin was a Russian Imperial Army general best known for his controversial leadership and strategic failures during the Russo-Japanese War.
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E.
Wilhelm von Leeb
Wilhelm von Leeb was a German field marshal in the Wehrmacht during World War II, best known for leading Army Group North in the invasion of the Soviet Union.
- 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: Field Marshal Alfred von Waldersee Target entity description: Field Marshal Alfred von Waldersee was a prominent Prussian-German military leader who served as the supreme commander of the international expeditionary forces during the Boxer Rebellion in China.
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A.
Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz
Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz was a prominent Prussian field marshal and military theorist who served as a senior German advisor and commander in the Ottoman Empire during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Ōkuma Shigenobu
Ōkuma Shigenobu was a prominent Japanese statesman of the Meiji era who served twice as prime minister and played a key role in Japan’s modernization and constitutional government.
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C.
Field Marshal Georg von Küchler
Field Marshal Georg von Küchler was a senior German Wehrmacht commander during World War II, best known for leading major operations on the Eastern Front.
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D.
Aleksey Kuropatkin
Aleksey Kuropatkin was a Russian Imperial Army general best known for his controversial leadership and strategic failures during the Russo-Japanese War.
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E.
Wilhelm von Leeb
Wilhelm von Leeb was a German field marshal in the Wehrmacht during World War II, best known for leading Army Group North in the invasion of the Soviet Union.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Field Marshal Alfred von Waldersee Description of subject: Field Marshal Alfred von Waldersee was a prominent Prussian-German military leader who served as the supreme commander of the international expeditionary forces during the Boxer Rebellion in China.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Field Marshal Alfred von Waldersee
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