Erich Koch
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Erich Koch was a high-ranking Nazi official and war criminal who served as the brutal Reichskommissar (civilian administrator) of occupied Ukraine during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Erich Koch canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5775808 — 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: Erich Koch Context triple: [Reichskommissariat Ukraine, headOfGovernment, Erich Koch]
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A.
Hans Heinrich Lammers
Hans Heinrich Lammers was a high-ranking Nazi official who served as Chief of the Reich Chancellery and was later prosecuted for his role in the Third Reich.
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B.
Johann Speer
Johann Speer is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Speer, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not clearly established.
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C.
Rudolf Brandt
Rudolf Brandt was a senior SS officer and personal administrative officer to Heinrich Himmler who was convicted and executed for his role in Nazi medical war crimes during the Doctors' Trial after World War II.
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D.
Walther Funk
Walther Funk was a prominent Nazi official who served as Reich Minister of Economics and president of the Reichsbank, playing a central role in managing and exploiting the Third Reich’s economy.
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E.
Ernst Schacht
Ernst Schacht was a craftsman and artisan best known for his role in creating the opulent Amber Room, a famed Baroque masterpiece of amber panels and gilded decoration.
- 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: Erich Koch Target entity description: Erich Koch was a high-ranking Nazi official and war criminal who served as the brutal Reichskommissar (civilian administrator) of occupied Ukraine during World War II.
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A.
Hans Heinrich Lammers
Hans Heinrich Lammers was a high-ranking Nazi official who served as Chief of the Reich Chancellery and was later prosecuted for his role in the Third Reich.
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B.
Johann Speer
Johann Speer is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Speer, though specific widely known biographical details about him are not clearly established.
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C.
Rudolf Brandt
Rudolf Brandt was a senior SS officer and personal administrative officer to Heinrich Himmler who was convicted and executed for his role in Nazi medical war crimes during the Doctors' Trial after World War II.
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D.
Walther Funk
Walther Funk was a prominent Nazi official who served as Reich Minister of Economics and president of the Reichsbank, playing a central role in managing and exploiting the Third Reich’s economy.
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E.
Ernst Schacht
Ernst Schacht was a craftsman and artisan best known for his role in creating the opulent Amber Room, a famed Baroque masterpiece of amber panels and gilded decoration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nazi official
ⓘ
human ⓘ war criminal ⓘ |
| appointedAs |
Reichskommissar for Ukraine
ⓘ
linked to:
Reichskommissariat Ukraine
|
| appointedBy | Adolf Hitler ⓘ |
| arrestedBy | British authorities ⓘ |
| arrestedIn | Hamburg ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| chargedWith |
crimes against humanity
ⓘ
war crimes ⓘ |
| citizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War I
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
crimes against humanity
ⓘ
war crimes ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | German Empire ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Poland ⓘ |
| countryOfExile | Denmark ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1896-06-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1986-11-12 ⓘ |
| endTime | 1944 ⓘ |
| extraditedTo | Poland ⓘ |
| familyName | Koch ⓘ |
| fullName | Erich Koch ⓘ |
| givenName | Erich ⓘ |
| ideology |
Nazism
ⓘ
antisemitism ⓘ |
| memberOf |
National Socialist German Workers' Party
ⓘ
linked to:
Nazi Party
Nazi Party ⓘ SA ⓘ Sturmabteilung ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Imperial German Army ⓘ |
| notableFor |
administration of occupied Ukraine
ⓘ
brutal occupation policies in Ukraine ⓘ persecution and mass murder of civilians ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Elberfeld
ⓘ
Wuppertal ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Barczewo ⓘ |
| placeOfDetention |
Barczewo Prison
ⓘ
linked to:
Barczewo prison
Poland ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Gauleiter of East Prussia
ⓘ
Oberpräsident of East Prussia ⓘ Reichskommissar for Ukraine ⓘ
linked to:
Reichskommissariat Ukraine
|
| responsibleFor |
crimes against humanity in occupied territories
ⓘ
deportation of forced laborers ⓘ exploitation of Ukrainian resources ⓘ |
| sentence | death ⓘ |
| sentenceModifiedTo | life imprisonment ⓘ |
| startTime | 1941-08-01 ⓘ |
| triedBy | Polish court ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Erich Koch Description of subject: Erich Koch was a high-ranking Nazi official and war criminal who served as the brutal Reichskommissar (civilian administrator) of occupied Ukraine during World War II.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.