Colonel Brandt
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Colonel Brandt is a German army officer character in the World War II film "Cross of Iron," representing the professional, duty-bound side of the Wehrmacht amid the chaos of the Eastern Front.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colonel Brandt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20407531 — 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 Brandt Context triple: [Cross of Iron, character, Colonel Brandt]
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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.
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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C.
Colonel Ehrhardt
Colonel Ehrhardt is a bumbling, self-important Nazi officer who serves as a key comic antagonist in the World War II satire film "To Be or Not to Be."
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D.
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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E.
Captain Ernst Vanselow
Captain Ernst Vanselow was a German naval officer who served as one of Germany’s representatives at the signing of the Armistice of 11 November 1918 that ended fighting in World War I.
- 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 Brandt Target entity description: Colonel Brandt is a German army officer character in the World War II film "Cross of Iron," representing the professional, duty-bound side of the Wehrmacht amid the chaos of the Eastern Front.
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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.
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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C.
Colonel Ehrhardt
Colonel Ehrhardt is a bumbling, self-important Nazi officer who serves as a key comic antagonist in the World War II satire film "To Be or Not to Be."
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D.
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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E.
Captain Ernst Vanselow
Captain Ernst Vanselow was a German naval officer who served as one of Germany’s representatives at the signing of the Armistice of 11 November 1918 that ended fighting in World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.