Vilsmaier
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Vilsmaier is a German surname most notably associated with film director Joseph Vilsmaier.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vilsmaier canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1486120 — 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: Vilsmaier Context triple: [Joseph Vilsmaier, familyName, Vilsmaier]
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A.
Hans Modrow
Hans Modrow was an East German reformist politician who served as the last communist prime minister of the GDR, overseeing key transition steps during the period following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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B.
Franz Reichleitner
Franz Reichleitner was an Austrian SS officer who served as the second and final commandant of the Nazi extermination camp Sobibor during the Holocaust.
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C.
Lothar Rendulic
Lothar Rendulic was an Austrian-born German army general during World War II, known for commanding Wehrmacht forces on the Eastern Front and in Scandinavia and later being convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials.
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D.
Gregor Strasser
Gregor Strasser was a prominent early Nazi leader and rival to Adolf Hitler, known for advocating a more socialist-oriented version of National Socialism before being purged and killed during the Night of the Long Knives.
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E.
Franz Neumann
Franz Neumann was a German-Jewish political scientist and legal scholar best known for his analysis of Nazism and totalitarianism, particularly in his influential work "Behemoth."
- 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: Vilsmaier Target entity description: Vilsmaier is a German surname most notably associated with film director Joseph Vilsmaier.
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A.
Hans Modrow
Hans Modrow was an East German reformist politician who served as the last communist prime minister of the GDR, overseeing key transition steps during the period following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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B.
Franz Reichleitner
Franz Reichleitner was an Austrian SS officer who served as the second and final commandant of the Nazi extermination camp Sobibor during the Holocaust.
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C.
Lothar Rendulic
Lothar Rendulic was an Austrian-born German army general during World War II, known for commanding Wehrmacht forces on the Eastern Front and in Scandinavia and later being convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials.
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D.
Gregor Strasser
Gregor Strasser was a prominent early Nazi leader and rival to Adolf Hitler, known for advocating a more socialist-oriented version of National Socialism before being purged and killed during the Night of the Long Knives.
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E.
Franz Neumann
Franz Neumann was a German-Jewish political scientist and legal scholar best known for his analysis of Nazism and totalitarianism, particularly in his influential work "Behemoth."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German-language surname
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cinematographer ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| familyName | Vilsmaier ⓘ |
| genre |
historical drama film
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war film ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Joseph Vilsmaier ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Brother of Sleep (1995 film)
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linked to:
Schlafes Bruder
Comedian Harmonists (1997 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Comedian Harmonists
Herbstmilch (1988 film) ⓘ Stalingrad (1993 film) ⓘ
linked to:
film "Stalingrad" (1993)
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| occupation |
cinematographer
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ |
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: Vilsmaier Description of subject: Vilsmaier is a German surname most notably associated with film director Joseph Vilsmaier.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Vilsmaier