Heinrich Korschan
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Heinrich Korschan was an industrialist who stood trial as a defendant in the post–World War II Krupp Trial for his involvement in Nazi-era industrial activities.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Heinrich Korschan canonical | 2 |
| Karl Eberhardt | 1 |
| Karl Pfirsch | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T233326 — 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: Heinrich Korschan Context triple: [Krupp Trial, defendant, Heinrich Korschan]
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A.
Franz Eckert
Franz Eckert was a German musician and composer known for arranging and influencing early modern national anthems in Japan and Korea.
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B.
Wilhelm Siegling
Wilhelm Siegling was a German linguist and philologist known for his pioneering work on the Tocharian languages and their classification within the Indo-European language family.
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C.
Gerhard Schöpfel
Gerhard Schöpfel was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace of World War II who became a high-scoring pilot and commander on the Western Front.
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D.
Karl-Adolf Hollidt
Karl-Adolf Hollidt was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II who held several high-level field commands on the Eastern Front.
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E.
Heinrich Dau
Heinrich Dau was the German naval officer who commanded the merchant raider involved in the World War II Altmark Incident.
- 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: Heinrich Korschan Target entity description: Heinrich Korschan was an industrialist who stood trial as a defendant in the post–World War II Krupp Trial for his involvement in Nazi-era industrial activities.
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A.
Franz Eckert
Franz Eckert was a German musician and composer known for arranging and influencing early modern national anthems in Japan and Korea.
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B.
Wilhelm Siegling
Wilhelm Siegling was a German linguist and philologist known for his pioneering work on the Tocharian languages and their classification within the Indo-European language family.
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C.
Gerhard Schöpfel
Gerhard Schöpfel was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace of World War II who became a high-scoring pilot and commander on the Western Front.
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D.
Karl-Adolf Hollidt
Karl-Adolf Hollidt was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II who held several high-level field commands on the Eastern Front.
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E.
Heinrich Dau
Heinrich Dau was the German naval officer who commanded the merchant raider involved in the World War II Altmark Incident.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Krupp Trial defendant
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industrialist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeDuring |
Nazi era
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linked to:
Third Reich
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| countryOfActivity | Germany ⓘ |
| employer |
Friedrich Krupp AG
ⓘ
linked to:
Krupp (company)
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| hasRole | manager in Nazi-era industry ⓘ |
| industry | armaments industry ⓘ |
| locationOfTrial | Nuremberg ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being tried for war-related industrial activities after World War II
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involvement in Nazi-era industrial activities ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Krupp Trial
ⓘ
Subsequent Nuremberg Trials ⓘ
linked to:
Wilhelmstrasse Trial
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| partOf |
Nazi Germany war economy
ⓘ
linked to:
Third Reich economic bureaucracy
|
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: Heinrich Korschan Description of subject: Heinrich Korschan was an industrialist who stood trial as a defendant in the post–World War II Krupp Trial for his involvement in Nazi-era industrial activities.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Heinrich Korschan
linked to: Heinrich Korschan