Colonel Wilhelm Klink
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Colonel Wilhelm Klink is the bumbling, vain commandant of the German POW camp Stalag 13 in the World War II sitcom "Hogan's Heroes."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colonel Wilhelm Klink canonical | 6 |
| Colonel Klink in Hogan's Heroes | 1 |
| Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17576598 — 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: Colonel Wilhelm Klink Context triple: [Hogan's Heroes, hasMainCharacter, Colonel Wilhelm Klink]
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A.
Colonel Weber
Colonel Weber is a high-ranking U.S. Army officer in the science fiction film "Arrival," responsible for overseeing the military response to the alien visitation and coordinating with linguist Louise Banks.
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B.
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld was a German Wehrmacht officer during World War II known for secretly helping and saving persecuted Jews, most notably Polish-Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.
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C.
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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D.
Major von Tellheim
Major von Tellheim is a proud but impoverished Prussian officer and the central male figure in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s comedy "Minna von Barnhelm," whose honor and misfortune drive the play’s conflict.
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E.
Lieutenant Werner
Lieutenant Werner is the young war correspondent aboard the German U-boat in the 1981 film "Das Boot," serving as the audience’s perspective on the crew’s harrowing World War II submarine mission.
- 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: Colonel Wilhelm Klink Target entity description: Colonel Wilhelm Klink is the bumbling, vain commandant of the German POW camp Stalag 13 in the World War II sitcom "Hogan's Heroes."
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A.
Colonel Weber
Colonel Weber is a high-ranking U.S. Army officer in the science fiction film "Arrival," responsible for overseeing the military response to the alien visitation and coordinating with linguist Louise Banks.
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B.
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
Captain Wilm Hosenfeld was a German Wehrmacht officer during World War II known for secretly helping and saving persecuted Jews, most notably Polish-Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.
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C.
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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D.
Major von Tellheim
Major von Tellheim is a proud but impoverished Prussian officer and the central male figure in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s comedy "Minna von Barnhelm," whose honor and misfortune drive the play’s conflict.
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E.
Lieutenant Werner
Lieutenant Werner is the young war correspondent aboard the German U-boat in the 1981 film "Das Boot," serving as the audience’s perspective on the crew’s harrowing World War II submarine mission.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Klemperer
linked to: Colonel Wilhelm Klink
linked to: Colonel Wilhelm Klink
subject linked to:
Corporal Peter Newkirk on Hogan's Heroes