Meminger
E1044920
Meminger is the surname of Liesel, the young protagonist of Markus Zusak’s novel "The Book Thief."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meminger canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13517991 — 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: Meminger Context triple: [Liesel Meminger, familyName, Meminger]
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A.
Santa Monguor
Santa Monguor is a Mongolic language spoken by the Monguor (Tu) people of northwestern China, notable for its heavy contact influence from neighboring Chinese and Tibetan varieties.
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B.
Nikolaus Zmeskall
Nikolaus Zmeskall was an Austrian civil servant, amateur cellist, and close friend of Ludwig van Beethoven who supported and inspired the composer’s chamber music activities.
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C.
Michaelerberg
Michaelerberg is a locality or subdivision within Vienna’s Währing district, known primarily as a residential area.
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D.
Reimund
Reimund is a masculine given name, primarily used in German-speaking regions, that is a variant of the name Raymond.
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E.
Lindorf
Lindorf is a sinister, manipulative antagonist in Offenbach’s opera "The Tales of Hoffmann," embodying one of the forces that thwart the poet Hoffmann’s romantic pursuits.
- 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: Meminger Target entity description: Meminger is the surname of Liesel, the young protagonist of Markus Zusak’s novel "The Book Thief."
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A.
Santa Monguor
Santa Monguor is a Mongolic language spoken by the Monguor (Tu) people of northwestern China, notable for its heavy contact influence from neighboring Chinese and Tibetan varieties.
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B.
Nikolaus Zmeskall
Nikolaus Zmeskall was an Austrian civil servant, amateur cellist, and close friend of Ludwig van Beethoven who supported and inspired the composer’s chamber music activities.
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C.
Michaelerberg
Michaelerberg is a locality or subdivision within Vienna’s Währing district, known primarily as a residential area.
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D.
Reimund
Reimund is a masculine given name, primarily used in German-speaking regions, that is a variant of the name Raymond.
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E.
Lindorf
Lindorf is a sinister, manipulative antagonist in Offenbach’s opera "The Tales of Hoffmann," embodying one of the forces that thwart the poet Hoffmann’s romantic pursuits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
ⓘ
family name ⓘ fictional character ⓘ novel ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Book Thief (novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Book Thief
|
| appearsInFictionalWork | The Book Thief ⓘ |
| author | Markus Zusak ⓘ |
| familyName | Meminger ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The Book Thief universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The Book Thief
|
| genre | historical novel ⓘ |
| givenName |
Liesel
ⓘ
linked to:
Liesel Meminger
|
| hasNotableBearer | Liesel Meminger ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Liesel Meminger ⓘ |
| narratedBy | Death ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Book Thief ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | The Book Thief ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| roleInWork | young protagonist ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| usedBy | Liesel Meminger ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | Germany ⓘ |
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: Meminger Description of subject: Meminger is the surname of Liesel, the young protagonist of Markus Zusak’s novel "The Book Thief."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Meminger