Anthropoid
E147026
Anthropoid was the codename for the World War II Allied operation to assassinate high-ranking Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich in occupied Czechoslovakia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anthropoid canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1279301 — 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: Anthropoid Context triple: [Operation Anthropoid, codename, Anthropoid]
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A.
Pan troglodytes
Pan troglodytes, commonly known as the common chimpanzee, is a highly intelligent great ape native to the forests and savannas of central and West Africa and one of humans’ closest living relatives.
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B.
Sephanoides
Sephanoides is a small genus of South American hummingbirds that includes species such as the Juan Fernández firecrown.
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C.
Noble Ape
Noble Ape is a stand-up comedy special by American comedian Jim Gaffigan, featuring his trademark observational humor about everyday life, family, and food.
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D.
Maashees
Maashees is a small village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, situated along the river Meuse and known for its rural character and historic church.
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E.
Nothocrax
Nothocrax is a small genus of nocturnal curassows, medium-sized game birds in the family Cracidae native to tropical forests of South America.
- 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: Anthropoid Target entity description: Anthropoid was the codename for the World War II Allied operation to assassinate high-ranking Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich in occupied Czechoslovakia.
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A.
Pan troglodytes
Pan troglodytes, commonly known as the common chimpanzee, is a highly intelligent great ape native to the forests and savannas of central and West Africa and one of humans’ closest living relatives.
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B.
Sephanoides
Sephanoides is a small genus of South American hummingbirds that includes species such as the Juan Fernández firecrown.
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C.
Noble Ape
Noble Ape is a stand-up comedy special by American comedian Jim Gaffigan, featuring his trademark observational humor about everyday life, family, and food.
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D.
Maashees
Maashees is a small village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, situated along the river Meuse and known for its rural character and historic church.
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E.
Nothocrax
Nothocrax is a small genus of nocturnal curassows, medium-sized game birds in the family Cracidae native to tropical forests of South America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World War II military operation
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assassination operation ⓘ |
| aftermath |
brutal Nazi reprisals in Czechoslovakia
ⓘ
destruction of Ležáky ⓘ destruction of Lidice ⓘ |
| belligerent |
Allies
ⓘ
Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| cause | Allied decision to strike high-ranking Nazi officials ⓘ |
| codenameFor | Allied operation to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| date | 1942 ⓘ |
| endDate | 1942-06-04 ⓘ |
| genre | covert operation ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English codename ⓘ |
| hasParticipant |
Czechoslovak paratroopers
ⓘ
German security forces ⓘ Jan Kubiš ⓘ Jozef Gabčík ⓘ |
| location |
Prague
ⓘ
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ⓘ |
| method |
ambush
ⓘ
grenade attack ⓘ submachine gun attack ⓘ |
| namedAfter | term for higher primates ⓘ |
| notableAgent |
Jan Kubiš
ⓘ
Jozef Gabčík ⓘ |
| objective | assassination of Reinhard Heydrich ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Gestapo
ⓘ
SS ⓘ |
| organisedBy |
Czechoslovak government-in-exile
ⓘ
Special Operations Executive ⓘ |
| partOf | World War II ⓘ |
| perpetrator |
Czechoslovak resistance
ⓘ
Czechoslovak soldiers-in-exile ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Czechoslovak resistance movement
ⓘ
linked to:
Czechoslovak resistance
Operation Silver A ⓘ |
| result |
Reinhard Heydrich mortally wounded
ⓘ
death of Reinhard Heydrich ⓘ |
| significance |
major act of resistance against Nazi occupation
ⓘ
only successful assassination of a senior Nazi leader during World War II ⓘ |
| startDate | 1941-12-28 ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
British Special Operations Executive
ⓘ
linked to:
Special Operations Executive
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| target |
Reinhard Heydrich
ⓘ
linked to:
ReinhardHeydrich
|
| tookPlaceAt | curve in the road at Bulovka Hospital area ⓘ |
| tookPlaceIn | Prague-Libeň ⓘ |
| tookPlaceOn | 1942-05-27 ⓘ |
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: Anthropoid Description of subject: Anthropoid was the codename for the World War II Allied operation to assassinate high-ranking Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich in occupied Czechoslovakia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.