Harold von Schmidt
E562375
Harold von Schmidt was an American illustrator best known for his evocative magazine and book illustrations, particularly in the Western genre.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harold von Schmidt canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4423550 — 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: Harold von Schmidt Context triple: [Death Comes for the Archbishop, hasIllustrationsBy, Harold von Schmidt]
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A.
Hermann Hager
Hermann Hager was a German pharmacist and pharmaceutical chemist known for his influential reference works and contributions to pharmaceutical practice in the 19th century.
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B.
Herbert Hainer
Herbert Hainer is a German businessman best known as the former long-time CEO of Adidas and current president of FC Bayern Munich.
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C.
Gustav Siegle
Gustav Siegle was a prominent 19th-century German industrialist and patron of the arts from Stuttgart.
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D.
Hans Wiegel
Hans Wiegel is a prominent Dutch liberal politician who served as leader of the VVD and as Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands in the late 20th century.
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E.
Walter Wottitz
Walter Wottitz was a French cinematographer best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the World War II epic film "The Longest Day."
- 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: Harold von Schmidt Target entity description: Harold von Schmidt was an American illustrator best known for his evocative magazine and book illustrations, particularly in the Western genre.
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A.
Hermann Hager
Hermann Hager was a German pharmacist and pharmaceutical chemist known for his influential reference works and contributions to pharmaceutical practice in the 19th century.
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B.
Herbert Hainer
Herbert Hainer is a German businessman best known as the former long-time CEO of Adidas and current president of FC Bayern Munich.
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C.
Gustav Siegle
Gustav Siegle was a prominent 19th-century German industrialist and patron of the arts from Stuttgart.
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D.
Hans Wiegel
Hans Wiegel is a prominent Dutch liberal politician who served as leader of the VVD and as Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands in the late 20th century.
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E.
Walter Wottitz
Walter Wottitz was a French cinematographer best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the World War II epic film "The Longest Day."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American artist
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illustrator ⓘ painter ⓘ person ⓘ |
| artisticFocus |
depictions of the American West
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narrative figurative scenes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creativeRole | visual storyteller ⓘ |
| familyName | von Schmidt ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
illustration
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painting ⓘ |
| genre |
Western art
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book illustration ⓘ magazine illustration ⓘ |
| givenName | Harold ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | American illustration ⓘ |
| name | Harold von Schmidt ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Western-themed illustrations
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evocative book illustrations ⓘ evocative magazine illustrations ⓘ |
| notableWorkType |
book illustrations
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magazine covers ⓘ |
| occupation |
commercial artist
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illustrator ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Harold von Schmidt Description of subject: Harold von Schmidt was an American illustrator best known for his evocative magazine and book illustrations, particularly in the Western genre.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.