Tomasz Blatt
E485232
Tomasz Blatt was a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and lecturer best known for his role in and later accounts of the 1943 Sobibor extermination camp uprising.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tomasz Blatt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4488524 — 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: Tomasz Blatt Context triple: [Thomas Blatt, birthName, Tomasz Blatt]
-
A.
Pawel Pogorzelski
Pawel Pogorzelski is a cinematographer known for his visually striking, atmospheric work on films such as Ari Aster’s horror feature "Midsommar."
-
B.
Jacek Budyn
Jacek Budyn is a Polish architect best known for designing the Warsaw Uprising Monument, a major memorial commemorating the 1944 uprising in Warsaw.
-
C.
Piotr Wysocki
Piotr Wysocki was a Polish army officer and independence activist best known for initiating the November Uprising of 1830 against Russian rule.
-
D.
Tomasz Radzinski
Tomasz Radzinski is a former Canadian professional soccer forward known for his successful club career in Europe, including stints with Anderlecht, Everton, and Fulham, as well as his contributions to the Canadian national team.
-
E.
Andrzej Bartkowiak
Andrzej Bartkowiak is a Polish-American cinematographer and film director known for his work on major Hollywood action and comedy films.
- 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: Tomasz Blatt Target entity description: Tomasz Blatt was a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and lecturer best known for his role in and later accounts of the 1943 Sobibor extermination camp uprising.
-
A.
Pawel Pogorzelski
Pawel Pogorzelski is a cinematographer known for his visually striking, atmospheric work on films such as Ari Aster’s horror feature "Midsommar."
-
B.
Jacek Budyn
Jacek Budyn is a Polish architect best known for designing the Warsaw Uprising Monument, a major memorial commemorating the 1944 uprising in Warsaw.
-
C.
Piotr Wysocki
Piotr Wysocki was a Polish army officer and independence activist best known for initiating the November Uprising of 1830 against Russian rule.
-
D.
Tomasz Radzinski
Tomasz Radzinski is a former Canadian professional soccer forward known for his successful club career in Europe, including stints with Anderlecht, Everton, and Fulham, as well as his contributions to the Canadian national team.
-
E.
Andrzej Bartkowiak
Andrzej Bartkowiak is a Polish-American cinematographer and film director known for his work on major Hollywood action and comedy films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Holocaust survivor
ⓘ
human ⓘ lecturer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Thomas Blatt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Toivi Blatt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1927-04-15 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Poland ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2015-10-31 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Polish Jews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Blatt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Holocaust studies
ⓘ
history of Sobibor ⓘ |
| gaveTestimony |
Demjanjuk trials
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eichmann trial NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
historical non-fiction
ⓘ
memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | Tomasz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
Polish ⓘ |
| name | Tomasz Blatt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
deportation to Sobibor extermination camp
ⓘ
escape from Sobibor extermination camp ⓘ |
| notableFor | Sobibor extermination camp uprising NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sobibor: The Forgotten Revolt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
Holocaust historian
ⓘ
lecturer ⓘ memoirist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Sobibor extermination camp uprising NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Izbica, Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Santa Barbara, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Santa Barbara, California, United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| spouse | Esther Blatt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Sobibor extermination camp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| survived |
Holocaust
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sobibor extermination camp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
Nazi extermination camps
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sobibor extermination camp uprising NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Tomasz Blatt Description of subject: Tomasz Blatt was a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and lecturer best known for his role in and later accounts of the 1943 Sobibor extermination camp uprising.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.