Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

E319617

American citizens married couple

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens convicted and executed in 1953 for conspiring to pass atomic secrets to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Ethel Rosenberg	14
Julius Rosenberg	12
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg canonical	1
Rosenbergs	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3017649 — 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: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Context triple: [Westchester Hills Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg]

A. Benjamin Gitlow
Benjamin Gitlow was an American socialist politician and activist best known as the defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court free speech case Gitlow v. New York.
B. Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs was a German-born theoretical physicist and Soviet spy who passed crucial atomic secrets from the U.S. and U.K. nuclear programs to the Soviet Union during and after World War II.
C. Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was a German-born American carpenter who was convicted and executed in 1936 for the infamous kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh’s infant son.
D. Ethel Skakel
Ethel Skakel is an American socialite and human rights advocate best known as the widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and a prominent member of the Kennedy family.
E. Hellman family
The Hellman family is a surname-bearing family line, likely encompassing multiple related individuals such as Herman Wouk Hellman.
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: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Target entity description: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens convicted and executed in 1953 for conspiring to pass atomic secrets to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

A. Benjamin Gitlow
Benjamin Gitlow was an American socialist politician and activist best known as the defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court free speech case Gitlow v. New York.
B. Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs was a German-born theoretical physicist and Soviet spy who passed crucial atomic secrets from the U.S. and U.K. nuclear programs to the Soviet Union during and after World War II.
C. Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was a German-born American carpenter who was convicted and executed in 1936 for the infamous kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh’s infant son.
D. Ethel Skakel
Ethel Skakel is an American socialite and human rights advocate best known as the widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and a prominent member of the Kennedy family.
E. Hellman family
The Hellman family is a surname-bearing family line, likely encompassing multiple related individuals such as Herman Wouk Hellman.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American citizens ⓘ married couple ⓘ
allegedRole	passing information about military technology ⓘ passing information about nuclear weapons ⓘ
allegedToHavePassed	atomic secrets ⓘ
allegedToHaveSpiedFor	Soviet Union ⓘ
caseBecame	major Cold War controversy ⓘ
caseComparedTo	Sacco and Vanzetti case ⓘ
caseInfluenced	American left-wing politics ⓘ U.S. discourse on national security ⓘ public opinion on McCarthyism ⓘ
chargedWith	conspiracy to commit espionage ⓘ
children	Michael Meeropol ⓘ Robert Meeropol ⓘ linked to: Michael Meeropol
coDefendant	Morton Sobell ⓘ
convictedOf	conspiracy to commit espionage ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
dateOfExecution	1953-06-19 ⓘ
defenseAttorney	Emanuel Hirsch Bloch ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Jewish Americans ⓘ
historicalPeriod	mid-20th century United States ⓘ
ideologyAssociatedWith	communism ⓘ
languageOfTrial	English ⓘ
legalStatusAtDeath	convicted felons ⓘ
maritalStatus	married to each other ⓘ
memorializedBy	Rosenberg Fund for Children ⓘ
methodOfExecution	electric chair ⓘ
notableFor	being executed for conspiracy to commit espionage ⓘ espionage for the Soviet Union ⓘ
occupation	political activists ⓘ
placeOfExecution	Sing Sing Correctional Facility ⓘ
presidingJudge	Irving Kaufman ⓘ
prosecutedUnder	Espionage Act of 1917 ⓘ
prosecutor	Irving Saypol ⓘ
referencedIn	Venona project decrypts ⓘ linked to: Soviet underground apparatus in the United States
religion	Judaism ⓘ
sentencedTo	death ⓘ
spiedDuring	Cold War ⓘ
subjectOf	debate about antisemitism in the U.S. justice system ⓘ debate about fairness of their trial ⓘ documentary films ⓘ numerous books ⓘ political debate about capital punishment ⓘ the opera "The Rosenbergs" ⓘ theatrical plays ⓘ
trialHeldIn	United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ⓘ

How these facts were elicited