Elke Büdenbender
E160517
Elke Büdenbender is a German judge who serves as the First Lady of Germany as the wife of President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elke Büdenbender canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1402391 — 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: Elke Büdenbender Context triple: [Frank-Walter Steinmeier, spouse, Elke Büdenbender]
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A.
Helga Bender Henry
Helga Bender Henry was the wife of prominent evangelical theologian Carl F. H. Henry and a partner in his ministry and writing endeavors.
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B.
Eva Schubach
Eva Schubach is known as a former spouse of Gerhard Schröder, the one-time Chancellor of Germany.
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C.
Anne Taschenmacher
Anne Taschenmacher is a German woman known primarily for having been married to former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
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D.
Helmut
Helmut is a masculine given name of German origin, historically common in German-speaking countries.
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E.
Annette Strauss
Annette Strauss was an American civic leader and philanthropist who became one of Dallas’s most prominent mayors in the late 1980s.
- 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: Elke Büdenbender Target entity description: Elke Büdenbender is a German judge who serves as the First Lady of Germany as the wife of President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
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A.
Helga Bender Henry
Helga Bender Henry was the wife of prominent evangelical theologian Carl F. H. Henry and a partner in his ministry and writing endeavors.
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B.
Eva Schubach
Eva Schubach is known as a former spouse of Gerhard Schröder, the one-time Chancellor of Germany.
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C.
Anne Taschenmacher
Anne Taschenmacher is a German woman known primarily for having been married to former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
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D.
Helmut
Helmut is a masculine given name of German origin, historically common in German-speaking countries.
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E.
Annette Strauss
Annette Strauss was an American civic leader and philanthropist who became one of Dallas’s most prominent mayors in the late 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
First Lady of Germany
ⓘ
human ⓘ judge ⓘ |
| child | one daughter ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1962-01-14 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Giessen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Administrative Court of Berlin ⓘ |
| familyName | Büdenbender ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | law ⓘ |
| givenName | Elke ⓘ |
| hasRole | patron of social projects in Germany ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | First Lady of Germany ⓘ |
| memberOf | Social Democratic Party of Germany ⓘ |
| name | Elke Büdenbender ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | German ⓘ |
| notableWork |
advocacy for gender equality
ⓘ
support for vocational education ⓘ |
| occupation | judge ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Siegen
ⓘ
Weidenau ⓘ |
| positionHeld | First Lady of Germany ⓘ |
| residence |
Bellevue Palace
ⓘ
Berlin ⓘ |
| spouse | Frank-Walter Steinmeier ⓘ |
| spouseName | Frank-Walter Steinmeier ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | President of Germany ⓘ |
| startTime | 2017-03-19 ⓘ |
| startTimeQualifierFor |
positionHeld: First Lady of Germany
ⓘ
linked to:
First Lady of Germany
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Elke Büdenbender Description of subject: Elke Büdenbender is a German judge who serves as the First Lady of Germany as the wife of President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.