Max Frisch
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Max Frisch was a prominent Swiss playwright and novelist known for works such as "Homo Faber" and "I'm Not Stiller," which explore identity, responsibility, and the nature of modern life.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Max Frisch canonical | 26 |
| Swiss author Max Frisch | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T130480 — 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: Max Frisch Context triple: [University of Zurich, hasNotableAlumnus, Max Frisch]
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A.
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, and essayist renowned for works like "Buddenbrooks" and "The Magic Mountain," which explore the psychology and moral crises of modern European society.
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B.
Arthur C. Miller
Arthur C. Miller was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films, including several Academy Award–winning productions.
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C.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born American writer and Nobel Prize–winning master of modern Yiddish literature, renowned for his stories blending Jewish folklore, mysticism, and everyday life.
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D.
Adelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamisso was a 19th-century German poet and naturalist best known for his literary works and botanical studies conducted during scientific expeditions.
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E.
I. L. Peretz
I. L. Peretz was a seminal Yiddish writer and playwright whose modernist stories and folk-inspired works helped shape the canon of Yiddish literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Max Frisch Target entity description: Max Frisch was a prominent Swiss playwright and novelist known for works such as "Homo Faber" and "I'm Not Stiller," which explore identity, responsibility, and the nature of modern life.
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A.
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, and essayist renowned for works like "Buddenbrooks" and "The Magic Mountain," which explore the psychology and moral crises of modern European society.
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B.
Arthur C. Miller
Arthur C. Miller was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films, including several Academy Award–winning productions.
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C.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born American writer and Nobel Prize–winning master of modern Yiddish literature, renowned for his stories blending Jewish folklore, mysticism, and everyday life.
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D.
Adelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamisso was a 19th-century German poet and naturalist best known for his literary works and botanical studies conducted during scientific expeditions.
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E.
I. L. Peretz
I. L. Peretz was a seminal Yiddish writer and playwright whose modernist stories and folk-inspired works helped shape the canon of Yiddish literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Max Frisch Description of subject: Max Frisch was a prominent Swiss playwright and novelist known for works such as "Homo Faber" and "I'm Not Stiller," which explore identity, responsibility, and the nature of modern life.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
ETH Zurich
subject surface form:
I'm Not Stiller
this entity surface form:
Swiss author Max Frisch