Professor Viktor Roth
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Professor Viktor Roth is the principled, humanitarian university professor in the 1940 film "The Mortal Storm," whose moral opposition to Nazism places him and his family in grave danger.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Professor Viktor Roth canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11844676 — 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: Professor Viktor Roth Context triple: [The Mortal Storm, mainCharacter, Professor Viktor Roth]
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A.
Professor Siletsky
Professor Siletsky is a Nazi spy and antagonist in the 1942 satirical film "To Be or Not to Be."
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B.
Professor Jules Hilbert
Professor Jules Hilbert is a quirky literature professor in the film "Stranger Than Fiction" who helps the protagonist understand the narrative forces controlling his life.
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C.
Professor Unrat
Professor Unrat is a satirical novel by Heinrich Mann that critiques bourgeois morality through the story of a repressed schoolteacher whose obsession with a cabaret singer leads to his downfall.
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D.
Professor Trevor Bruttenholm
Professor Trevor Bruttenholm is a scholarly occult expert and founding member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense who discovers, raises, and mentors the demon hero Hellboy.
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E.
Professor Maximilian Arturo
Professor Maximilian Arturo is a brilliant but often pompous physics professor and one of the original dimension-traveling protagonists from the science fiction TV series "Sliders."
- 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: Professor Viktor Roth Target entity description: Professor Viktor Roth is the principled, humanitarian university professor in the 1940 film "The Mortal Storm," whose moral opposition to Nazism places him and his family in grave danger.
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A.
Professor Siletsky
Professor Siletsky is a Nazi spy and antagonist in the 1942 satirical film "To Be or Not to Be."
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B.
Professor Jules Hilbert
Professor Jules Hilbert is a quirky literature professor in the film "Stranger Than Fiction" who helps the protagonist understand the narrative forces controlling his life.
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C.
Professor Unrat
Professor Unrat is a satirical novel by Heinrich Mann that critiques bourgeois morality through the story of a repressed schoolteacher whose obsession with a cabaret singer leads to his downfall.
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D.
Professor Trevor Bruttenholm
Professor Trevor Bruttenholm is a scholarly occult expert and founding member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense who discovers, raises, and mentors the demon hero Hellboy.
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E.
Professor Maximilian Arturo
Professor Maximilian Arturo is a brilliant but often pompous physics professor and one of the original dimension-traveling protagonists from the science fiction TV series "Sliders."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Mortal Storm ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
courageous
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humanitarian ⓘ intellectual ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| faces |
personal danger
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political persecution ⓘ |
| familyName | Roth ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Viktor ⓘ |
| ideologicalStance | anti-Nazi ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | principled ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
moral center of the story
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protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | university professor ⓘ |
| opposes | Nazism ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | The Mortal Storm (1940 film) ⓘ |
| riskTo |
himself
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his family ⓘ |
| settingOfStory | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
conscience versus conformity
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family under political oppression ⓘ moral resistance to totalitarianism ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | rise of Nazism ⓘ |
| workOf | The Mortal Storm ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1940 ⓘ |
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: Professor Viktor Roth Description of subject: Professor Viktor Roth is the principled, humanitarian university professor in the 1940 film "The Mortal Storm," whose moral opposition to Nazism places him and his family in grave danger.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.