Veidt
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Veidt is a German surname most famously associated with Conrad Veidt, a prominent early 20th-century film actor known for roles in silent cinema and classic Hollywood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Veidt canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2326789 — 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: Veidt Context triple: [Conrad Veidt, familyName, Veidt]
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A.
The Verdict
The Verdict is a 1946 film noir mystery in which Sydney Greenstreet stars as a disgraced Scotland Yard superintendent who investigates a murder to clear his name.
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B.
The Verdict
The Verdict is a critically acclaimed 1982 courtroom drama film starring Paul Newman as a down-and-out lawyer seeking redemption through a medical malpractice case.
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C.
Judgment at Nuremberg
Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 courtroom drama film about the post–World War II Nuremberg Trials, exploring themes of justice, guilt, and responsibility in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
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D.
Anatomy of a Murder
Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 American courtroom drama film directed by Otto Preminger, renowned for its realistic legal proceedings and exploration of moral ambiguity.
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E.
La Justice
La Justice is a philosophical poem by French writer and Nobel laureate Sully Prudhomme that explores themes of law, morality, and the nature of justice.
- 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: Veidt Target entity description: Veidt is a German surname most famously associated with Conrad Veidt, a prominent early 20th-century film actor known for roles in silent cinema and classic Hollywood.
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A.
The Verdict
The Verdict is a critically acclaimed 1982 courtroom drama film starring Paul Newman as a down-and-out lawyer seeking redemption through a medical malpractice case.
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B.
The Verdict
The Verdict is a 1946 film noir mystery in which Sydney Greenstreet stars as a disgraced Scotland Yard superintendent who investigates a murder to clear his name.
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C.
Judgment at Nuremberg
Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 courtroom drama film about the post–World War II Nuremberg Trials, exploring themes of justice, guilt, and responsibility in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
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D.
Anatomy of a Murder
Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 American courtroom drama film directed by Otto Preminger, renowned for its realistic legal proceedings and exploration of moral ambiguity.
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E.
La Justice
La Justice is a philosophical poem by French writer and Nobel laureate Sully Prudhomme that explores themes of law, morality, and the nature of justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German actor
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German-language surname ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
German Empire
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Germany ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1893-01-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1943-04-03 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
classic Hollywood cinema
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silent cinema ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Conrad Veidt ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Casablanca
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ⓘ The Man Who Laughs (1928 film) ⓘ
surface form:
The Man Who Laughs
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| placeOfBirth | Berlin ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
portrayed Cesare in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
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portrayed Gwynplaine in The Man Who Laughs ⓘ portrayed Major Heinrich Strasser in Casablanca ⓘ |
| spouse |
Felicitas Radke
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Ilona Prager ⓘ Ilona Prager ⓘ
surface form:
Lilli (Lily) Prager
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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: Veidt Description of subject: Veidt is a German surname most famously associated with Conrad Veidt, a prominent early 20th-century film actor known for roles in silent cinema and classic Hollywood.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.