Gottlieb Hering
E259637
Gottlieb Hering was a German SS officer who served as a commandant in the Nazi extermination camp system during the Holocaust.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gottlieb Hering canonical | 2 |
| Marius Hering | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2358584 — 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: Gottlieb Hering Context triple: [Reinhard program authorities, hasKeyPerson, Gottlieb Hering]
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A.
Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist best known for discovering the antibacterial effects of the sulfonamide drug Prontosil, work for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1939.
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B.
Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma
Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma was a German Wehrmacht general and tank commander in World War II, best known for leading armored forces in the North African campaign.
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C.
Alfred Meyer
Alfred Meyer was a high-ranking Nazi official who served as a key administrator in the German occupation of Eastern Europe during World War II.
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D.
Ernst Schering
Ernst Schering was a German mathematician and physicist known for his work in geodesy and potential theory in the 19th century.
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E.
Dr. Hermann Gottlieb
Dr. Hermann Gottlieb is a brilliant but eccentric mathematician and kaiju researcher in the Pacific Rim universe, known for his analytical rivalry and eventual partnership with scientist Newton Geiszler.
- 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: Gottlieb Hering Target entity description: Gottlieb Hering was a German SS officer who served as a commandant in the Nazi extermination camp system during the Holocaust.
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A.
Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist best known for discovering the antibacterial effects of the sulfonamide drug Prontosil, work for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1939.
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B.
Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma
Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma was a German Wehrmacht general and tank commander in World War II, best known for leading armored forces in the North African campaign.
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C.
Alfred Meyer
Alfred Meyer was a high-ranking Nazi official who served as a key administrator in the German occupation of Eastern Europe during World War II.
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D.
Ernst Schering
Ernst Schering was a German mathematician and physicist known for his work in geodesy and potential theory in the 19th century.
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E.
Dr. Hermann Gottlieb
Dr. Hermann Gottlieb is a brilliant but eccentric mathematician and kaiju researcher in the Pacific Rim universe, known for his analytical rivalry and eventual partnership with scientist Newton Geiszler.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German military officer
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Nazi perpetrator of the Holocaust ⓘ SS officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| employer | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| familyName | Hering ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Gottlieb ⓘ |
| ideology | Nazism ⓘ |
| memberOf | SS ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Schutzstaffel
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linked to:
Schutzstaffel (SS)
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| name | Gottlieb Hering ⓘ |
| notableFor |
participation in Operation Reinhard
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role as a commandant in the Nazi extermination camp system ⓘ |
| occupation |
camp commandant
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police officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Holocaust ⓘ |
| partOf |
Nazi extermination camp system
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linked to:
Nazi camp system
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| perpetratorOf |
crimes against humanity
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mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Belzec extermination camp
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linked to:
Belzec
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| positionHeld | commandant of Belzec extermination camp ⓘ |
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: Gottlieb Hering Description of subject: Gottlieb Hering was a German SS officer who served as a commandant in the Nazi extermination camp system during the Holocaust.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Gottlieb Hering