Karel Poláček
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Karel Poláček was a Czech-Jewish writer and journalist best known for his humorous and satirical novels depicting interwar Czech society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Karel Poláček canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2715505 — 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: Karel Poláček Context triple: [Czech Jews, notableHistoricFigure, Karel Poláček]
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A.
Eduard Nápravník
Eduard Nápravník was a prominent 19th-century Czech-born conductor and composer who became a leading figure at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, championing Russian opera and symphonic music.
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B.
Pavel Kohout
Pavel Kohout is a Czech writer and former dissident best known as a prominent playwright and novelist associated with the Prague Spring and the Charter 77 movement.
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C.
Vladimír Dzurilla
Vladimír Dzurilla was a legendary Czechoslovak ice hockey goaltender, widely regarded as one of the best European goalies of his era and a key figure in international competitions during the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Karel Hermánek
Karel Hermánek is a Czech actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including a role in the 1993 war drama "Stalingrad."
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E.
Jindřich Fügner
Jindřich Fügner was a 19th-century Czech patriot and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of the Sokol gymnastics movement, which combined physical training with national revival.
- 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: Karel Poláček Target entity description: Karel Poláček was a Czech-Jewish writer and journalist best known for his humorous and satirical novels depicting interwar Czech society.
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A.
Eduard Nápravník
Eduard Nápravník was a prominent 19th-century Czech-born conductor and composer who became a leading figure at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, championing Russian opera and symphonic music.
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B.
Pavel Kohout
Pavel Kohout is a Czech writer and former dissident best known as a prominent playwright and novelist associated with the Prague Spring and the Charter 77 movement.
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C.
Vladimír Dzurilla
Vladimír Dzurilla was a legendary Czechoslovak ice hockey goaltender, widely regarded as one of the best European goalies of his era and a key figure in international competitions during the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Karel Hermánek
Karel Hermánek is a Czech actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including a role in the 1993 war drama "Stalingrad."
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E.
Jindřich Fügner
Jindřich Fügner was a 19th-century Czech patriot and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of the Sokol gymnastics movement, which combined physical training with national revival.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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humorist ⓘ journalist ⓘ novelist ⓘ satirist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
Holocaust victim
ⓘ
Nazi persecution ⓘ |
| conflict | World War I ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Austria-Hungary
ⓘ
linked to:
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1892-03-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1945-01-19 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | gymnasium in Rychnov nad Kněžnou ⓘ |
| employer | Lidové noviny ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Czech Jew ⓘ |
| genre |
humor
ⓘ
satire ⓘ social novel ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
court clerk
ⓘ
customs official ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Czech ⓘ |
| militaryService | Austro-Hungarian Army ⓘ |
| movement | Czech interwar literature ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depicting interwar Czech middle class
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depicting small-town Czech society ⓘ humorous portrayal of everyday life ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bylo nás pět
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Hrdinové táhnou do boje ⓘ Muži v offsidu ⓘ Okresní město ⓘ Podzemní město ⓘ |
| occupation |
columnist
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Austria-Hungary
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linked to:
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Bohemia ⓘ Rychnov nad Kněžnou ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Auschwitz concentration camp system
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linked to:
AuschwitzBirkenau
Gleiwitz subcamp ⓘ |
| primaryTopicOf | https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Pol%C3%A1%C4%8Dek ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workPeriod | interwar period ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
humorous
ⓘ
ironic ⓘ realist ⓘ |
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: Karel Poláček Description of subject: Karel Poláček was a Czech-Jewish writer and journalist best known for his humorous and satirical novels depicting interwar Czech society.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.