Secret Annex
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The Secret Annex was the concealed section of an Amsterdam building where Anne Frank, her family, and others hid from Nazi persecution during World War II, later made famous by her diary.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2845550 — 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: Secret Annex Context triple: [Hermann van Pels, associatedWithPlace, Secret Annex]
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The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank is the world-famous published journal of a Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis during World War II, offering a poignant, firsthand account of life under persecution.
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The Hiding Place (novel)
The Hiding Place is a novel by British writer and actor Robert Shaw, best known as a psychologically intense literary work that helped establish his reputation as a serious author.
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a Holocaust-themed novel by John Boyne that follows the forbidden friendship between a German boy and a Jewish boy imprisoned in a concentration camp, later adapted into a successful film and stage productions.
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D.
Schindler’s Houses
Schindler’s Houses is a documentary film by Heinz Emigholz that visually explores the architecture and spatial concepts of modernist architect Rudolf Schindler’s residential buildings.
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E.
Hunger Winter
The Hunger Winter was a severe famine that struck the occupied Netherlands during the final months of World War II, causing widespread starvation and hardship among the civilian population.
- 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: Secret Annex Target entity description: The Secret Annex was the concealed section of an Amsterdam building where Anne Frank, her family, and others hid from Nazi persecution during World War II, later made famous by her diary.
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A.
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank is the world-famous published journal of a Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis during World War II, offering a poignant, firsthand account of life under persecution.
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B.
The Hiding Place (novel)
The Hiding Place is a novel by British writer and actor Robert Shaw, best known as a psychologically intense literary work that helped establish his reputation as a serious author.
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C.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a Holocaust-themed novel by John Boyne that follows the forbidden friendship between a German boy and a Jewish boy imprisoned in a concentration camp, later adapted into a successful film and stage productions.
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D.
Schindler’s Houses
Schindler’s Houses is a documentary film by Heinz Emigholz that visually explores the architecture and spatial concepts of modernist architect Rudolf Schindler’s residential buildings.
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E.
Hunger Winter
The Hunger Winter was a severe famine that struck the occupied Netherlands during the final months of World War II, causing widespread starvation and hardship among the civilian population.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Secret Annex Description of subject: The Secret Annex was the concealed section of an Amsterdam building where Anne Frank, her family, and others hid from Nazi persecution during World War II, later made famous by her diary.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Secret Annex at Prinsengracht 263, Amsterdam
this entity surface form:
Secret Annex, Prinsengracht 263, Amsterdam
this entity surface form:
Anne Frank's room
this entity surface form:
van Pels family room
this entity surface form:
Secret Annex where Anne Frank hid
this entity surface form:
Secret Annex at Prinsengracht 263
subject surface form:
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film)
this entity surface form:
Secret Annex, Prinsengracht 263, Amsterdam
this entity surface form:
Secret Annex, Prinsengracht 263, Amsterdam
subject surface form:
Bep Voskuijl
this entity surface form:
Secret Annex, Prinsengracht 263, Amsterdam