Conrad Veidt
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Conrad Veidt was a German actor best known for his memorable roles in classic films such as "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and "Casablanca," where he often portrayed complex or villainous characters.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Conrad Veidt canonical | 20 |
| Hans Walter Conrad Veidt | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T379700 — 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: Conrad Veidt Context triple: [Casablanca, starring, Conrad Veidt]
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A.
Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre was a distinctive Hungarian-American character actor renowned for his unsettling, soft-spoken performances in classic films such as "M," "The Maltese Falcon," and "Casablanca."
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B.
Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden was an American actor and World War II hero known for his rugged film roles and his clandestine service as a Marine and OSS operative.
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C.
Georg Stumme
Georg Stumme was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II who briefly commanded Axis forces in North Africa before his death early in the Second Battle of El Alamein.
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D.
Emmy Göring
Emmy Göring was a German actress who became widely known as the second wife of high-ranking Nazi official Hermann Göring and as a prominent social figure in the Third Reich.
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E.
Alfred Preis
Alfred Preis was an Austrian-born American architect best known for designing the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
- 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: Conrad Veidt Target entity description: Conrad Veidt was a German actor best known for his memorable roles in classic films such as "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and "Casablanca," where he often portrayed complex or villainous characters.
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A.
Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre was a distinctive Hungarian-American character actor renowned for his unsettling, soft-spoken performances in classic films such as "M," "The Maltese Falcon," and "Casablanca."
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B.
Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden was an American actor and World War II hero known for his rugged film roles and his clandestine service as a Marine and OSS operative.
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C.
Georg Stumme
Georg Stumme was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II who briefly commanded Axis forces in North Africa before his death early in the Second Battle of El Alamein.
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D.
Emmy Göring
Emmy Göring was a German actress who became widely known as the second wife of high-ranking Nazi official Hermann Göring and as a prominent social figure in the Third Reich.
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E.
Alfred Preis
Alfred Preis was an Austrian-born American architect best known for designing the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Conrad Veidt Description of subject: Conrad Veidt was a German actor best known for his memorable roles in classic films such as "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and "Casablanca," where he often portrayed complex or villainous characters.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hans Walter Conrad Veidt
this entity surface form:
Hans Walter Conrad Veidt
subject surface form:
The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film)