German Fallschirmjäger officer Kurt Steiner
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German Fallschirmjäger officer Kurt Steiner is a fictional elite paratroop commander who leads the daring mission to kidnap Winston Churchill in Jack Higgins’ World War II thriller "The Eagle Has Landed."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| German Fallschirmjäger officer Kurt Steiner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16018198 — 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)
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Target entity: German Fallschirmjäger officer Kurt Steiner Context triple: [The Eagle Has Landed, hasCharacterRole, German Fallschirmjäger officer Kurt Steiner]
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German Colonel Fritz Fullriede
German Colonel Fritz Fullriede was a Wehrmacht officer best known for commanding the German defense of the besieged Baltic port city of Kolberg in early 1945.
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B.
German sniper Erwin König
German sniper Erwin König is a (likely fictional) elite Wehrmacht marksman depicted as the chief antagonist hunting Soviet sniper Vasily Zaitsev in the World War II film "Enemy at the Gates."
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C.
Hauptmann Raimund Steiner
Hauptmann Raimund Steiner was a German artillery officer best known for commanding the Merville Battery, a key coastal fortification targeted by Allied forces during the D-Day landings in World War II.
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D.
Major Heinrich Strasser
Major Heinrich Strasser is the primary Nazi antagonist in the classic 1942 film "Casablanca," serving as a ruthless German officer sent to capture resistance leader Victor Laszlo.
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E.
Otto Skorzeny
Otto Skorzeny was a prominent Austrian-born Waffen-SS commando officer of Nazi Germany, best known for leading daring special operations such as the rescue of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini 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: German Fallschirmjäger officer Kurt Steiner Target entity description: German Fallschirmjäger officer Kurt Steiner is a fictional elite paratroop commander who leads the daring mission to kidnap Winston Churchill in Jack Higgins’ World War II thriller "The Eagle Has Landed."
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A.
German Colonel Fritz Fullriede
German Colonel Fritz Fullriede was a Wehrmacht officer best known for commanding the German defense of the besieged Baltic port city of Kolberg in early 1945.
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B.
German sniper Erwin König
German sniper Erwin König is a (likely fictional) elite Wehrmacht marksman depicted as the chief antagonist hunting Soviet sniper Vasily Zaitsev in the World War II film "Enemy at the Gates."
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C.
Hauptmann Raimund Steiner
Hauptmann Raimund Steiner was a German artillery officer best known for commanding the Merville Battery, a key coastal fortification targeted by Allied forces during the D-Day landings in World War II.
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D.
Major Heinrich Strasser
Major Heinrich Strasser is the primary Nazi antagonist in the classic 1942 film "Casablanca," serving as a ruthless German officer sent to capture resistance leader Victor Laszlo.
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E.
Otto Skorzeny
Otto Skorzeny was a prominent Austrian-born Waffen-SS commando officer of Nazi Germany, best known for leading daring special operations such as the rescue of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
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