Irena Sendler
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Irena Sendler was a Polish social worker and World War II resistance member who saved thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto by smuggling them to safety and preserving their identities.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Irena Sendler canonical | 18 |
| Irena Sendlerowa | 1 |
| Mieczysław Sendler | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1974943 — 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: Irena Sendler Context triple: [Żegota, notableMember, Irena Sendler]
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A.
Maryla Husyt Finkelstein
Maryla Husyt Finkelstein was a Holocaust survivor and the mother of American political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein.
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B.
Emanuel Ringelblum
Emanuel Ringelblum was a Polish-Jewish historian who led the clandestine Oyneg Shabes archive project, documenting life and atrocities in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust.
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C.
Miep Gies
Miep Gies was an Austrian-born Dutch woman who helped hide Anne Frank and her family during World War II and preserved Anne’s diary after their arrest.
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D.
Mordechai Anielewicz
Mordechai Anielewicz was a Jewish resistance leader during World War II who led the main Jewish fighting organization in the Warsaw Ghetto against Nazi forces.
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E.
Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist and member of the Nazi Party who is renowned for saving the lives of over a thousand Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories.
- 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: Irena Sendler Target entity description: Irena Sendler was a Polish social worker and World War II resistance member who saved thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto by smuggling them to safety and preserving their identities.
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A.
Maryla Husyt Finkelstein
Maryla Husyt Finkelstein was a Holocaust survivor and the mother of American political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein.
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B.
Emanuel Ringelblum
Emanuel Ringelblum was a Polish-Jewish historian who led the clandestine Oyneg Shabes archive project, documenting life and atrocities in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust.
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C.
Miep Gies
Miep Gies was an Austrian-born Dutch woman who helped hide Anne Frank and her family during World War II and preserved Anne’s diary after their arrest.
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D.
Mordechai Anielewicz
Mordechai Anielewicz was a Jewish resistance leader during World War II who led the main Jewish fighting organization in the Warsaw Ghetto against Nazi forces.
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E.
Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist and member of the Nazi Party who is renowned for saving the lives of over a thousand Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Polish resistance member
ⓘ
Righteous Among the Nations ⓘ human ⓘ social worker ⓘ |
| arrestedBy | Gestapo ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Order of Polonia Restituta
ⓘ
Order of the White Eagle ⓘ
linked to:
Order of the White Eagle (Poland)
Righteous Among the Nations ⓘ |
| birthName | Irena Krzyżanowska ⓘ |
| citizenship | Poland ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Poland ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Poland ⓘ |
| dateOfArrest | 1943 ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1910-02-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2008-05-12 ⓘ |
| escapeAssistedBy | Polish underground ⓘ |
| escapedFrom | Gestapo custody ⓘ |
| familyName |
Krzyżanowska
ⓘ
Sendler ⓘ |
| givenName |
Irena
ⓘ
linked to:
Irena Dubrovna
|
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| honoredBy |
Yad Vashem
ⓘ
linked to:
YadVashem
|
| memberOf |
Polish Underground State
ⓘ
Żegota ⓘ |
| methodOfRescue |
placing children in convents and orphanages
ⓘ
placing children with Polish families ⓘ providing false identity documents ⓘ smuggling children out of the Warsaw Ghetto ⓘ |
| name | Irena Sendler ⓘ |
| notableFor |
preserving the identities of rescued Jewish children
ⓘ
rescuing Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto ⓘ |
| numberOfPeopleRescued | approximately 2500 Jewish children ⓘ |
| occupation |
humanitarian
ⓘ
nurse ⓘ social worker ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Polish resistance movement in World War II
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Warsaw ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Warsaw ⓘ |
| preservedInformationAs | lists of children’s real names and new identities ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sentencedTo | death ⓘ |
| storageLocationOfLists | glass jars buried in a garden ⓘ |
| subjectedTo | torture ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
numerous books and documentaries
ⓘ
play "Life in a Jar" ⓘ |
| usedAlias | Jolanta ⓘ |
| workedFor | Warsaw Social Welfare Department ⓘ |
| workedIn | Warsaw Ghetto ⓘ |
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: Irena Sendler Description of subject: Irena Sendler was a Polish social worker and World War II resistance member who saved thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto by smuggling them to safety and preserving their identities.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.