Irene Schönbein
E144526
Irene Schönbein was the wife of Nazi physician and Auschwitz camp doctor Josef Mengele.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Irene Schoenbein | 2 |
| Irene Schönbein canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1153658 — 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: Irene Schönbein Context triple: [Josef Mengele, spouse, Irene Schönbein]
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A.
Karla von Mohl
Karla von Mohl was the wife of renowned German physician and physicist Hermann von Helmholtz and a member of the distinguished von Mohl family.
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B.
Hilde Schwab
Hilde Schwab is a Swiss philanthropist and co-founder of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, known for her work promoting social innovation and supporting the World Economic Forum’s initiatives.
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C.
Luisa Neubauer
Luisa Neubauer is a prominent German climate activist and leading organizer of the Fridays for Future movement in Germany.
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D.
Amalie Rohe
Amalie Rohe was the mother of renowned modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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E.
Alma Wassermann
Alma Wassermann was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning Yiddish author Isaac Bashevis Singer and a significant partner in his personal and literary life.
- 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: Irene Schönbein Target entity description: Irene Schönbein was the wife of Nazi physician and Auschwitz camp doctor Josef Mengele.
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A.
Karla von Mohl
Karla von Mohl was the wife of renowned German physician and physicist Hermann von Helmholtz and a member of the distinguished von Mohl family.
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B.
Hilde Schwab
Hilde Schwab is a Swiss philanthropist and co-founder of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, known for her work promoting social innovation and supporting the World Economic Forum’s initiatives.
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C.
Luisa Neubauer
Luisa Neubauer is a prominent German climate activist and leading organizer of the Fridays for Future movement in Germany.
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D.
Amalie Rohe
Amalie Rohe was the mother of renowned modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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E.
Alma Wassermann
Alma Wassermann was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning Yiddish author Isaac Bashevis Singer and a significant partner in his personal and literary life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| employer |
Auschwitz concentration camp
ⓘ
linked to:
AuschwitzBirkenau
|
| notableFor | being the wife of Nazi physician Josef Mengele ⓘ |
| occupation |
Nazi camp doctor
ⓘ
physician ⓘ |
| spouse |
Irene Schönbein
ⓘ
Josef Mengele ⓘ |
| spouseEmployer |
Auschwitz concentration camp
ⓘ
linked to:
AuschwitzBirkenau
|
| spouseOccupation |
Nazi camp doctor
ⓘ
physician ⓘ |
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: Irene Schönbein Description of subject: Irene Schönbein was the wife of Nazi physician and Auschwitz camp doctor Josef Mengele.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.