Fani Jägerstätter
E1020362
Fani Jägerstätter is the wife of Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, portrayed in Terrence Malick’s film "A Hidden Life" as a figure of quiet moral strength and steadfast faith.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fani Jägerstätter canonical | 3 |
| Aloisia Jägerstätter | 1 |
| Franziska Jägerstätter | 1 |
| Jägerstätter | 1 |
| Maria Jägerstätter | 1 |
| Rosalia Jägerstätter | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13034416 — 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: Fani Jägerstätter Context triple: [A Hidden Life, mainCharacter, Fani Jägerstätter]
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A.
Franz Jägerstätter
Franz Jägerstätter was an Austrian farmer and devout Catholic who became known for his conscientious objection to serving in Hitler’s army during World War II, for which he was executed and later beatified by the Catholic Church.
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B.
Sophie Scholl
Sophie Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, best known as a leading member of the non-violent resistance group the White Rose who was executed for distributing anti-regime leaflets during World War II.
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C.
Maria Dąbrowska Kolbe
Maria Dąbrowska Kolbe was the mother of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish Franciscan friar martyred at Auschwitz.
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D.
Magdalena Scholl
Magdalena Scholl was the mother of German resistance member Sophie Scholl and part of the family that opposed the Nazi regime.
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E.
Hans Scholl
Hans Scholl was a German student and leading member of the non-violent resistance group White Rose, executed in 1943 for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets.
- 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: Fani Jägerstätter Target entity description: Fani Jägerstätter is the wife of Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, portrayed in Terrence Malick’s film "A Hidden Life" as a figure of quiet moral strength and steadfast faith.
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A.
Franz Jägerstätter
Franz Jägerstätter was an Austrian farmer and devout Catholic who became known for his conscientious objection to serving in Hitler’s army during World War II, for which he was executed and later beatified by the Catholic Church.
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B.
Sophie Scholl
Sophie Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, best known as a leading member of the non-violent resistance group the White Rose who was executed for distributing anti-regime leaflets during World War II.
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C.
Maria Dąbrowska Kolbe
Maria Dąbrowska Kolbe was the mother of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish Franciscan friar martyred at Auschwitz.
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D.
Magdalena Scholl
Magdalena Scholl was the mother of German resistance member Sophie Scholl and part of the family that opposed the Nazi regime.
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E.
Hans Scholl
Hans Scholl was a German student and leading member of the non-violent resistance group White Rose, executed in 1943 for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Catholic resistance to Nazism
ⓘ
linked to:
German resistance to Nazism
Franz Jägerstätter’s beatification legacy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Austria ⓘ |
| director | Terrence Malick ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Austrian ⓘ |
| familyName |
Jägerstätter
ⓘ
linked to:
Fani Jägerstätter
|
| fictionalDepiction | character based on her appears in "A Hidden Life" ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Franziska ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
loyalty to her husband
ⓘ
moral courage ⓘ steadfast faith ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | German ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Fani Jägerstätter ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being portrayed in Terrence Malick’s film "A Hidden Life"
ⓘ
conscientious objection to military service in Nazi Germany ⓘ supporting her husband Franz Jägerstätter in his conscientious objection to Nazism ⓘ |
| occupation |
farmer
ⓘ
housewife ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | St. Radegund, Upper Austria ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | A Hidden Life ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholic Church
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
|
| religiousPractice | Catholic laywoman ⓘ |
| residence | St. Radegund, Upper Austria ⓘ |
| spouse |
Fani Jägerstätter
ⓘ
Franz Jägerstätter ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
conscientious objector
ⓘ
farmer ⓘ |
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: Fani Jägerstätter Description of subject: Fani Jägerstätter is the wife of Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, portrayed in Terrence Malick’s film "A Hidden Life" as a figure of quiet moral strength and steadfast faith.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Fani Jägerstätter
subject linked to:
Fani Jägerstätter
linked to: Fani Jägerstätter
linked to: Fani Jägerstätter
linked to: Fani Jägerstätter
linked to: Fani Jägerstätter