agent Tate (Wulf Schmidt)
E423298
Agent Tate, born Wulf Schmidt, was a German spy turned British double agent whose deceptive radio transmissions played a key role in misleading the Nazis during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| agent Tate (Wulf Schmidt) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4250104 — 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: agent Tate (Wulf Schmidt) Context triple: [Operation Fortitude, usedAsset, agent Tate (Wulf Schmidt)]
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A.
John Tate
John Tate was an influential American mathematician renowned for his foundational work in number theory and arithmetic geometry.
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B.
ATF agent Ray Nicolet
ATF agent Ray Nicolet is a fictional federal law enforcement officer who appears in Elmore Leonard’s crime novel "Rum Punch" and its film adaptation "Jackie Brown," often portrayed as a somewhat slick and opportunistic investigator.
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C.
Chris DeWolfe
Chris DeWolfe is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-creator and former CEO of the pioneering social networking site MySpace.
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D.
Johann Schmidt
Johann Schmidt is the real name of the Marvel Comics supervillain Red Skull, a Nazi officer and archenemy of Captain America.
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E.
Peter Masterson
Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
- 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: agent Tate (Wulf Schmidt) Target entity description: Agent Tate, born Wulf Schmidt, was a German spy turned British double agent whose deceptive radio transmissions played a key role in misleading the Nazis during World War II.
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A.
John Tate
John Tate was an influential American mathematician renowned for his foundational work in number theory and arithmetic geometry.
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B.
ATF agent Ray Nicolet
ATF agent Ray Nicolet is a fictional federal law enforcement officer who appears in Elmore Leonard’s crime novel "Rum Punch" and its film adaptation "Jackie Brown," often portrayed as a somewhat slick and opportunistic investigator.
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C.
Chris DeWolfe
Chris DeWolfe is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-creator and former CEO of the pioneering social networking site MySpace.
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D.
Johann Schmidt
Johann Schmidt is the real name of the Marvel Comics supervillain Red Skull, a Nazi officer and archenemy of Captain America.
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E.
Peter Masterson
Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
double agent
ⓘ
human ⓘ human ⓘ intelligence agent ⓘ |
| activity | sending deceptive intelligence to Germany ⓘ |
| alias | Agent Tate ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Germany (initially)
ⓘ
linked to:
Germany
United Kingdom (after turning double agent) ⓘ |
| convertedTo | double agent for the British ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| employer |
Abwehr
ⓘ
British intelligence ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | military intelligence ⓘ |
| genre | espionage ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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German ⓘ |
| method | radio transmissions ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | World War II ⓘ |
| notableFor |
misleading Nazi Germany about Allied activities
ⓘ
radio deception operations in the United Kingdom during World War II ⓘ |
| notableRole | member of the British double-cross system ⓘ |
| occupation | spy ⓘ |
| operatedAgainst | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| operatedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| opponent |
Nazi intelligence services
ⓘ
linked to:
Reich Main Security Office
|
| partOf | Allied deception efforts in World War II ⓘ |
| realName | Wulf Schmidt ⓘ |
| role | double-cross agent ⓘ |
| significantEvent | capture by British authorities in World War II ⓘ |
| turnedBy | British intelligence ⓘ |
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: agent Tate (Wulf Schmidt) Description of subject: Agent Tate, born Wulf Schmidt, was a German spy turned British double agent whose deceptive radio transmissions played a key role in misleading the Nazis during World War II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.