Höfle Telegram
E1019745
The Höfle Telegram was a secret 1943 Nazi radio message that detailed the number of Jews murdered in Operation Reinhard extermination camps, later becoming key evidence of the scale of the Holocaust.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Höfle Telegram canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13096040 — 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: Höfle Telegram Context triple: [Hermann Höfle, wrote, Höfle Telegram]
-
A.
Hauerland
Hauerland was a historical German-speaking enclave in central Slovakia, settled by Carpathian Germans in the Middle Ages.
-
B.
Hammann
Hammann is a German-origin surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as aviation, music, and academia.
-
C.
Maufe
Maufe is a surname most notably associated with Sir Edward Maufe, a 20th-century British architect known for designing Guildford Cathedral and several prominent war memorials.
-
D.
Wieck
Wieck is a German surname most notably associated with Friedrich Wieck, the influential 19th-century piano teacher and father of composer Clara Schumann.
-
E.
Feuchtinger
Feuchtinger is a German surname most notably associated with Edgar Feuchtinger, a German general during World War II.
- 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: Höfle Telegram Target entity description: The Höfle Telegram was a secret 1943 Nazi radio message that detailed the number of Jews murdered in Operation Reinhard extermination camps, later becoming key evidence of the scale of the Holocaust.
-
A.
Hauerland
Hauerland was a historical German-speaking enclave in central Slovakia, settled by Carpathian Germans in the Middle Ages.
-
B.
Hammann
Hammann is a German-origin surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as aviation, music, and academia.
-
C.
Maufe
Maufe is a surname most notably associated with Sir Edward Maufe, a 20th-century British architect known for designing Guildford Cathedral and several prominent war memorials.
-
D.
Wieck
Wieck is a German surname most notably associated with Friedrich Wieck, the influential 19th-century piano teacher and father of composer Clara Schumann.
-
E.
Feuchtinger
Feuchtinger is a German surname most notably associated with Edgar Feuchtinger, a German general during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Holocaust evidence
ⓘ
historical document ⓘ radio message ⓘ |
| archivedBy |
British intelligence
ⓘ
Government Communications Headquarters ⓘ |
| classification | secret ⓘ |
| codeSystem | SS Enigma ⓘ |
| concerns |
Operation Reinhard extermination camps
ⓘ
linked to:
Aktion Reinhard camps system
extermination of Jews ⓘ |
| concernsOperation | Operation Reinhard ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| dateSent | 1943-01-11 ⓘ |
| discoveredBy |
Peter Witte
ⓘ
Stephen Tyas ⓘ |
| discoveredIn | British archives ⓘ |
| importance | key quantitative evidence of the Holocaust ⓘ |
| interceptedBy | British codebreakers at Bletchley Park ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| listsCamp |
Belzec extermination camp
ⓘ
linked to:
Belzec
Lublin-Majdanek extermination camp ⓘ
linked to:
Majdanek
Sobibor extermination camp ⓘ
linked to:
Sobibor
Treblinka extermination camp ⓘ
linked to:
Treblinka
|
| listsLocationCode |
B (Belzec)
ⓘ
linked to:
Belzec
L (Lublin-Majdanek) ⓘ
linked to:
Majdanek
S (Sobibor) ⓘ
linked to:
Sobibor
T (Treblinka) ⓘ
linked to:
Treblinka
|
| listsTimePeriod | up to 31 December 1942 ⓘ |
| listsVictimNumbersFor |
Belzec extermination camp
ⓘ
linked to:
Belzec
Lublin-Majdanek extermination camp ⓘ
linked to:
Majdanek
Sobibor extermination camp ⓘ
linked to:
Sobibor
Treblinka extermination camp ⓘ
linked to:
Treblinka
|
| medium | radio ⓘ |
| numberReportedForBelzec | 434508 ⓘ |
| numberReportedForLublinMajdanek | 24733 ⓘ |
| numberReportedForSobibor | 101370 ⓘ |
| numberReportedForTreblinka | 713555 ⓘ |
| relatedDocument | Korherr Report ⓘ |
| sender | Hermann Höfle ⓘ |
| sentBy | SS-Sturmbannführer Hermann Höfle ⓘ |
| sentDuring |
Holocaust
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| sentFrom | Lublin ⓘ |
| sentInYear | 1943 ⓘ |
| sentTo |
RSHA Berlin
ⓘ
linked to:
Reich Security Main Office complex
SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann ⓘ
linked to:
Adolf Eichmann
|
| supportsEvidenceFor | scale of Operation Reinhard killings ⓘ |
| totalNumberReported | 1274166 ⓘ |
| transmissionType | encoded radio telegram ⓘ |
| usedAsEvidenceIn | Holocaust historiography ⓘ |
| victimGroup | Jews ⓘ |
| yearOfDiscovery | 2000 ⓘ |
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: Höfle Telegram Description of subject: The Höfle Telegram was a secret 1943 Nazi radio message that detailed the number of Jews murdered in Operation Reinhard extermination camps, later becoming key evidence of the scale of the Holocaust.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.