Richard Baer
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Richard Baer was a high-ranking SS officer who served as a commandant of Nazi concentration camps during World War II and was later prosecuted for war crimes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Baer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3101847 — 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: Richard Baer Context triple: [Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp, notableCommander, Richard Baer]
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A.
Rudolf Höss
Rudolf Höss was a high-ranking Nazi SS officer who served as the first and longest-serving commandant of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, overseeing the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of people during the Holocaust.
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B.
Franz Stangl
Franz Stangl was an Austrian SS officer and Nazi war criminal who served as commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibor extermination camps during the Holocaust.
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C.
Otto Ohlendorf
Otto Ohlendorf was a high-ranking SS officer and leader of Einsatzgruppe D, responsible for mass murders during the Holocaust and later convicted as a war criminal at the Nuremberg Trials.
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D.
Kurt Daluege
Kurt Daluege was a high-ranking Nazi official and SS leader who served as chief of the Order Police and later as acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia during World War II.
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E.
Oswald Pohl
Oswald Pohl was a high-ranking Nazi SS officer who oversaw the administration of concentration camps and was convicted and executed as a war criminal after World War II.
- 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: Richard Baer Target entity description: Richard Baer was a high-ranking SS officer who served as a commandant of Nazi concentration camps during World War II and was later prosecuted for war crimes.
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A.
Rudolf Höss
Rudolf Höss was a high-ranking Nazi SS officer who served as the first and longest-serving commandant of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, overseeing the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of people during the Holocaust.
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B.
Franz Stangl
Franz Stangl was an Austrian SS officer and Nazi war criminal who served as commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibor extermination camps during the Holocaust.
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C.
Otto Ohlendorf
Otto Ohlendorf was a high-ranking SS officer and leader of Einsatzgruppe D, responsible for mass murders during the Holocaust and later convicted as a war criminal at the Nuremberg Trials.
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D.
Kurt Daluege
Kurt Daluege was a high-ranking Nazi official and SS leader who served as chief of the Order Police and later as acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia during World War II.
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E.
Oswald Pohl
Oswald Pohl was a high-ranking Nazi SS officer who oversaw the administration of concentration camps and was convicted and executed as a war criminal after World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nazi concentration camp commandant
ⓘ
SS officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeYears | 1930s–1945 ⓘ |
| allegiance | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| arrestedIn | 1960 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| chargedWith |
crimes against humanity
ⓘ
war crimes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Germany
ⓘ
Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1911-09-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1963-06-17 ⓘ |
| employer | SS-Totenkopfverbände ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| familyName | Baer ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | German ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Nazi Party
ⓘ
Schutzstaffel ⓘ
linked to:
Schutzstaffel (SS)
|
| militaryBranch | Waffen-SS ⓘ |
| militaryRank | SS-Sturmbannführer ⓘ |
| notableEvent | last commandant of Auschwitz I ⓘ |
| notableWork | commandant of Auschwitz I ⓘ |
| occupation |
SS officer
ⓘ
concentration camp commandant ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Holocaust
ⓘ
Nazi concentration camp system ⓘ
linked to:
Nazi camp system
World War II ⓘ |
| placeOfArrest |
Federal Republic of Germany
ⓘ
linked to:
West Germany
|
| placeOfBirth | Floß, Bavaria, German Empire ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
ⓘ
linked to:
Frankfurt am Main
|
| placeOfDetention | Frankfurt-Preungesheim Prison ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
commandant of Auschwitz I concentration camp
ⓘ
commandant of Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestantism
ⓘ
linked to:
Protestant Christianity
|
| servedIn |
Auschwitz concentration camp
ⓘ
linked to:
AuschwitzBirkenau
Dachau concentration camp ⓘ
linked to:
Dachau
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp ⓘ Neuengamme concentration camp ⓘ Sachsenhausen concentration camp ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Frankfurt Auschwitz trials
ⓘ
linked to:
Auschwitz trials in Frankfurt
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| trialStatus | died in custody before verdict ⓘ |
| usedAlias | Karl Egon Neumann ⓘ |
| wasTriedFor | involvement in mass murder of Jews and other prisoners at Auschwitz ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Richard Baer Description of subject: Richard Baer was a high-ranking SS officer who served as a commandant of Nazi concentration camps during World War II and was later prosecuted for war crimes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.