Franz Reichleitner
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Franz Reichleitner was an Austrian SS officer who served as the second and final commandant of the Nazi extermination camp Sobibor during the Holocaust.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Franz Reichleitner canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T349861 — 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: Franz Reichleitner Context triple: [Sobibor, commandant, Franz Reichleitner]
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A.
Hans von Seisser
Hans von Seisser was a Bavarian police official and head of the Munich police who played a key role in opposing Adolf Hitler’s 1923 Beer Hall Putsch.
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B.
Franz Eckert
Franz Eckert was a German musician and composer known for arranging and influencing early modern national anthems in Japan and Korea.
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C.
Wilhelm Siegling
Wilhelm Siegling was a German linguist and philologist known for his pioneering work on the Tocharian languages and their classification within the Indo-European language family.
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D.
Baldur von Schirach
Baldur von Schirach was a prominent Nazi leader who served as head of the Hitler Youth and later as Gauleiter of Vienna, and was convicted as a war criminal at the Nuremberg Trials.
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E.
Fritz Austerlitz
Fritz Austerlitz was the father of legendary American dancer and film star Fred Astaire, known primarily for his familial connection to the Hollywood icon.
- 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: Franz Reichleitner Target entity description: Franz Reichleitner was an Austrian SS officer who served as the second and final commandant of the Nazi extermination camp Sobibor during the Holocaust.
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A.
Hans von Seisser
Hans von Seisser was a Bavarian police official and head of the Munich police who played a key role in opposing Adolf Hitler’s 1923 Beer Hall Putsch.
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B.
Franz Eckert
Franz Eckert was a German musician and composer known for arranging and influencing early modern national anthems in Japan and Korea.
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C.
Wilhelm Siegling
Wilhelm Siegling was a German linguist and philologist known for his pioneering work on the Tocharian languages and their classification within the Indo-European language family.
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D.
Baldur von Schirach
Baldur von Schirach was a prominent Nazi leader who served as head of the Hitler Youth and later as Gauleiter of Vienna, and was convicted as a war criminal at the Nuremberg Trials.
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E.
Fritz Austerlitz
Fritz Austerlitz was the father of legendary American dancer and film star Fred Astaire, known primarily for his familial connection to the Hollywood icon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austrian SS officer
ⓘ
Nazi concentration camp commandant ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeDuring | World War II ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Sobibor extermination camp uprising (as camp commandant at the time period of its preparation) ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
Austro-Hungarian Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Austria-Hungary
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Austria ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Italy ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1906-12-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1944-01-03 ⓘ |
| employer | SS-Totenkopfverbände ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Austrian ⓘ |
| familyName | Reichleitner ⓘ |
| givenName | Franz ⓘ |
| ideology | Nazism ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | German ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Nazi Party
ⓘ
surface form:
National Socialist German Workers' Party
Schutzstaffel (SS) ⓘ
surface form:
Schutzstaffel
|
| militaryRank | SS-Hauptsturmführer ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in the extermination of Jews at Sobibor ⓘ |
| notableWork | administration of Sobibor extermination camp ⓘ |
| occupation | SS officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Holocaust
ⓘ
Operation Reinhard ⓘ |
| partOf | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Innviertel
ⓘ
surface form:
Ried im Innkreis
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| placeOfDeath | near Fiume ⓘ |
| positionHeld | commandant of Sobibor extermination camp ⓘ |
| precededBy | Franz Stangl ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| wasCommandantOf |
Sobibor
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surface form:
Sobibor extermination camp
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| workedAt |
Sobibor
ⓘ
surface form:
Sobibor extermination camp
Aktion T4 euthanasia program ⓘ
surface form:
T-4 euthanasia program (administrative background)
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How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Franz Reichleitner Description of subject: Franz Reichleitner was an Austrian SS officer who served as the second and final commandant of the Nazi extermination camp Sobibor during the Holocaust.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.