Irma Grese
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Irma Grese was a notorious SS guard at Nazi concentration camps during World War II, infamous for her extreme cruelty and later executed for war crimes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Irma Grese canonical | 2 |
| Irma Ida Ilse Grese | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7325711 — 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: Irma Grese Context triple: [Irma, hasNotableBearer, Irma Grese]
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A.
Ilse Koch
Ilse Koch was a notorious Nazi war criminal and the wife of Buchenwald concentration camp commandant Karl-Otto Koch, infamous for her extreme cruelty toward prisoners.
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B.
Rose Stradner
Rose Stradner was an Austrian-American actress known for her work in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Herta Oberheuser
Herta Oberheuser was a Nazi physician notorious for conducting brutal medical experiments on prisoners at the Ravensbrück concentration camp, for which she was convicted of war crimes after World War II.
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D.
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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E.
Amon Göth
Amon Göth was an Austrian Nazi SS officer and war criminal notorious for his brutal command of the Płaszów concentration camp during the Holocaust.
- 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: Irma Grese Target entity description: Irma Grese was a notorious SS guard at Nazi concentration camps during World War II, infamous for her extreme cruelty and later executed for war crimes.
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A.
Ilse Koch
Ilse Koch was a notorious Nazi war criminal and the wife of Buchenwald concentration camp commandant Karl-Otto Koch, infamous for her extreme cruelty toward prisoners.
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B.
Rose Stradner
Rose Stradner was an Austrian-American actress known for her work in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Herta Oberheuser
Herta Oberheuser was a Nazi physician notorious for conducting brutal medical experiments on prisoners at the Ravensbrück concentration camp, for which she was convicted of war crimes after World War II.
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D.
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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E.
Amon Göth
Amon Göth was an Austrian Nazi SS officer and war criminal notorious for his brutal command of the Płaszów concentration camp during the Holocaust.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nazi concentration camp guard
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SS member ⓘ human ⓘ war criminal ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
The Beautiful Beast
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The Hyena of Auschwitz ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | hanging ⓘ |
| charge |
crimes against humanity
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war crimes ⓘ |
| citizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
crimes against humanity
ⓘ
war crimes ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1923-10-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1945-12-13 ⓘ |
| employer | SS ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| executedBy |
British Army
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| facedTrial |
Bergen-Belsen trial
ⓘ
linked to:
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp trials
|
| familyName | Grese ⓘ |
| fullName |
Irma Ida Ilse Grese
ⓘ
linked to:
Irma Grese
|
| givenName | Irma ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | German ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| memberOf |
SS-Totenkopfverbände
ⓘ
Schutzstaffel ⓘ
linked to:
Schutzstaffel (SS)
|
| militaryBranch | SS guards at concentration camps ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Aufseherin ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
arrest by British forces in 1945
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sentencing to death at the Bergen-Belsen trial ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extreme cruelty toward concentration camp prisoners
ⓘ
war crimes committed in Nazi concentration camps ⓘ |
| notableWork |
service as guard at Auschwitz concentration camp
ⓘ
service as guard at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ⓘ |
| occupation | concentration camp guard ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Holocaust
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Wrechen ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Hameln ⓘ |
| placeOfDetention | Bergen-Belsen after liberation ⓘ |
| religion | Lutheranism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Auschwitz concentration camp
ⓘ
linked to:
AuschwitzBirkenau
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ⓘ
linked to:
BergenBelsen
Ravensbrück concentration camp ⓘ |
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: Irma Grese Description of subject: Irma Grese was a notorious SS guard at Nazi concentration camps during World War II, infamous for her extreme cruelty and later executed for war crimes.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Irma Grese