Reich Price Commissioner
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The Reich Price Commissioner was a key Nazi-era official responsible for controlling and regulating prices within the centrally managed economy of the Third Reich.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Reich Price Commissioner canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T653015 — 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: Reich Price Commissioner Context triple: [Third Reich economic bureaucracy, includesAgency, Reich Price Commissioner]
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A.
Willis Van Devanter
Willis Van Devanter was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1911 to 1937 and was known as a leading conservative voice on the Court during the early 20th century.
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B.
Walter Powell
Walter Powell was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores in Portland, Oregon.
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C.
Thomas N. Margulis
Thomas N. Margulis is known primarily as the former husband of renowned evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis.
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D.
Attorney General Homer Cummings
Attorney General Homer Cummings was the U.S. Attorney General under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, known for his role in New Deal legal reforms and support of expanded federal powers during the 1930s.
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E.
Attorney General Richard Olney
Attorney General Richard Olney was a powerful late 19th-century U.S. lawyer and statesman known for using federal injunctions and troops to break the Pullman Strike and for expanding federal authority over labor disputes.
- 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: Reich Price Commissioner Target entity description: The Reich Price Commissioner was a key Nazi-era official responsible for controlling and regulating prices within the centrally managed economy of the Third Reich.
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A.
Willis Van Devanter
Willis Van Devanter was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1911 to 1937 and was known as a leading conservative voice on the Court during the early 20th century.
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B.
Walter Powell
Walter Powell was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores in Portland, Oregon.
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C.
Thomas N. Margulis
Thomas N. Margulis is known primarily as the former husband of renowned evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis.
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D.
Attorney General Homer Cummings
Attorney General Homer Cummings was the U.S. Attorney General under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, known for his role in New Deal legal reforms and support of expanded federal powers during the 1930s.
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E.
Attorney General Richard Olney
Attorney General Richard Olney was a powerful late 19th-century U.S. lawyer and statesman known for using federal injunctions and troops to break the Pullman Strike and for expanding federal authority over labor disputes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
economic regulatory authority
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government office ⓘ |
| aim |
prevention of black market price escalation
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stabilization of prices ⓘ support of war economy planning ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Third Reich ⓘ |
| characteristic |
authoritarian enforcement powers
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highly centralized authority ⓘ integration with Nazi party-state structures ⓘ |
| country | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| dissolvedAfter | defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 ⓘ |
| hasRole |
control of wages and fees
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coordination of price policy with war economy needs ⓘ enforcement of price ceilings ⓘ implementation of economic decrees ⓘ inflation control ⓘ price control ⓘ rationing-related price supervision ⓘ regulation of prices ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
central organ of the Third Reich command economy
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key instrument of Nazi price and wage control ⓘ |
| ideology |
National Socialism
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linked to:
Nazism
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| legalBasis |
Nazi emergency economic legislation
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price control decrees of the Third Reich ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Berlin ⓘ |
| partOf |
German wartime command economy
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Nazi economic administration ⓘ |
| policyInstrument |
licensing and approval of price changes
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mandatory reporting of prices ⓘ maximum price schedules ⓘ penalties for price violations ⓘ price ordinances ⓘ |
| replacedBy | postwar German economic administration ⓘ |
| scopeOfAuthority |
civilian economy
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consumer goods prices ⓘ industrial prices ⓘ services prices ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
Nazi Party leadership in economic matters
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Reich Ministry of Economics ⓘ Reich government ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Nazi era
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World War II ⓘ |
| usedFor |
centralized economic planning
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control of domestic consumption ⓘ mobilization of resources for war ⓘ support of autarky policy ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Reich Price Commissioner Description of subject: The Reich Price Commissioner was a key Nazi-era official responsible for controlling and regulating prices within the centrally managed economy of the Third Reich.
Referenced by (2)
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