Claus von Stauffenberg
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Claus von Stauffenberg was a German army officer best known for leading the failed 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Claus von Stauffenberg canonical | 22 |
| Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg | 3 |
| Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg | 1 |
| Claus von Stauffenberg (Valkyrie) | 1 |
| von Stauffenberg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2352688 — 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: Claus von Stauffenberg Context triple: [Valkyrie (2008 film), mainCharacter, Claus von Stauffenberg]
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A.
Georg Elser
Georg Elser was a German carpenter and resistance fighter who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1939 by planting a time bomb in a Munich beer hall.
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B.
Marinus van der Lubbe
Marinus van der Lubbe was a Dutch communist who was controversially convicted and executed by Nazi Germany for allegedly setting the Reichstag fire in 1933.
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C.
Hans Scholl
Hans Scholl was a German student and leading member of the non-violent resistance group White Rose, executed in 1943 for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets.
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D.
Hubertus
Hubertus is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in various European countries.
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E.
Viktor Lutze
Viktor Lutze was a high-ranking Nazi official who led the Sturmabteilung (SA) after Ernst Röhm’s purge and helped consolidate Adolf Hitler’s control over the paramilitary organization.
- 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: Claus von Stauffenberg Target entity description: Claus von Stauffenberg was a German army officer best known for leading the failed 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime.
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A.
Georg Elser
Georg Elser was a German carpenter and resistance fighter who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1939 by planting a time bomb in a Munich beer hall.
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B.
Marinus van der Lubbe
Marinus van der Lubbe was a Dutch communist who was controversially convicted and executed by Nazi Germany for allegedly setting the Reichstag fire in 1933.
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C.
Hans Scholl
Hans Scholl was a German student and leading member of the non-violent resistance group White Rose, executed in 1943 for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets.
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D.
Hubertus
Hubertus is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in various European countries.
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E.
Viktor Lutze
Viktor Lutze was a high-ranking Nazi official who led the Sturmabteilung (SA) after Ernst Röhm’s purge and helped consolidate Adolf Hitler’s control over the paramilitary organization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Claus von Stauffenberg Description of subject: Claus von Stauffenberg was a German army officer best known for leading the failed 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Major Ernst John von Freyend in Valkyrie
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