Carl Weiss
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Carl Weiss was a Louisiana physician historically known as the alleged assassin of U.S. Senator Huey P. Long in 1935.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carl Austin Weiss | 1 |
| Carl Weiss canonical | 1 |
| Carl Weiss Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6232937 — 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: Carl Weiss Context triple: [Huey P. Long, assassinatedBy, Carl Weiss]
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A.
William Weiss
William Weiss is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including various professionals and public figures across different fields.
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B.
John Weiss
John Weiss is a relatively obscure individual whose specific notability is not clearly established from the given information.
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C.
Thomas Weiss
Thomas Weiss is a relatively common personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different fields, rather than a single widely recognized public figure.
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D.
Hans Weiss
Hans Weiss is a relatively common German personal name shared by multiple individuals, including figures in fields such as literature, journalism, and the arts.
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E.
Karl Weiss
Karl Weiss is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with several minor historical and contemporary figures, making it difficult to attribute a single widely recognized identity to him.
- 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: Carl Weiss Target entity description: Carl Weiss was a Louisiana physician historically known as the alleged assassin of U.S. Senator Huey P. Long in 1935.
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A.
William Weiss
William Weiss is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including various professionals and public figures across different fields.
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B.
John Weiss
John Weiss is a relatively obscure individual whose specific notability is not clearly established from the given information.
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C.
Thomas Weiss
Thomas Weiss is a relatively common personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different fields, rather than a single widely recognized public figure.
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D.
Hans Weiss
Hans Weiss is a relatively common German personal name shared by multiple individuals, including figures in fields such as literature, journalism, and the arts.
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E.
Karl Weiss
Karl Weiss is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with several minor historical and contemporary figures, making it difficult to attribute a single widely recognized identity to him.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alleged assassin
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person ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| allegedVictim | Huey P. Long ⓘ |
| allegedWeaponUsed | handgun ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Huey P. Long assassination case ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1906-12-06 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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| burialPlace | Roselawn Memorial Park, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | gunshot wounds ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfMajorEvent | 1935-09-08 ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1935-09-08 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
|
| educatedAt |
Louisiana State University
ⓘ
Tulane University ⓘ University of Vienna ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German American ⓘ |
| familyName | Weiss ⓘ |
| fatherInLaw | Judge Benjamin Henry Pavy ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | medicine ⓘ |
| givenName | Carl ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Carl Weiss Jr.
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linked to:
Carl Weiss
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| languageSpoken |
English
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German ⓘ |
| legalStatus | never tried in court due to immediate death ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | shot by bodyguards of Huey P. Long ⓘ |
| marriageDate | 1930 ⓘ |
| name |
Carl Austin Weiss
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linked to:
Carl Weiss
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| notableEvent | shooting of Huey P. Long ⓘ |
| notableFor | allegedly assassinating U.S. Senator Huey P. Long ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Benjamin Henry Pavy ⓘ |
| occupation | physician ⓘ |
| placeOfMajorEvent |
Louisiana State Capitol, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Louisiana State Capitol
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| politicalContext | Louisiana politics during the rule of Huey P. Long ⓘ |
| posthumousReputation | controversial figure in Louisiana history ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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| spouse | Yvonne Pavy ⓘ |
| subjectOf | historical debate about responsibility for Huey P. Long’s death ⓘ |
| yearOfMajorEvent | 1935 ⓘ |
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: Carl Weiss Description of subject: Carl Weiss was a Louisiana physician historically known as the alleged assassin of U.S. Senator Huey P. Long in 1935.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Carl Weiss
linked to: Carl Weiss