Werner Klemperer
E532640
Werner Klemperer was a German-American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Colonel Klink on the television series "Hogan's Heroes."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Werner Klemperer canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5583652 — 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: Werner Klemperer Context triple: [Otto Klemperer, child, Werner Klemperer]
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A.
James von Klemperer
James von Klemperer is an American architect and president of the firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, known for designing prominent commercial and institutional buildings worldwide.
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B.
Günther Stern
Günther Stern, later known as Günther Anders, was a German-Jewish philosopher and essayist noted for his critical writings on technology, modernity, and the human condition.
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C.
Gerhard Doerfer
Gerhard Doerfer was a German linguist renowned for his critical work on Turkic and other Central Asian languages and for his influential rejection of the proposed Altaic language family.
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D.
Hans Walter Gabler
Hans Walter Gabler is a German textual scholar and editor best known for producing the critically influential 1984 synoptic edition of James Joyce’s "Ulysses."
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E.
Siegfried Weiss
Siegfried Weiss was a German actor known for his roles in mid-20th-century German cinema and theater.
- 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: Werner Klemperer Target entity description: Werner Klemperer was a German-American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Colonel Klink on the television series "Hogan's Heroes."
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A.
James von Klemperer
James von Klemperer is an American architect and president of the firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, known for designing prominent commercial and institutional buildings worldwide.
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B.
Günther Stern
Günther Stern, later known as Günther Anders, was a German-Jewish philosopher and essayist noted for his critical writings on technology, modernity, and the human condition.
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C.
Gerhard Doerfer
Gerhard Doerfer was a German linguist renowned for his critical work on Turkic and other Central Asian languages and for his influential rejection of the proposed Altaic language family.
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D.
Hans Walter Gabler
Hans Walter Gabler is a German textual scholar and editor best known for producing the critically influential 1984 synoptic edition of James Joyce’s "Ulysses."
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E.
Siegfried Weiss
Siegfried Weiss was a German actor known for his roles in mid-20th-century German cinema and theater.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German-American
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Primetime Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1920-03-22 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Cologne
NERFINISHED
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Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ Weimar Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | New Mount Carmel Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Germany
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2000-12-06 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| emigratedTo | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName | Klemperer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Werner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| name | Werner Klemperer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole | Colonel Wilhelm Klink NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Hogan's Heroes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| parent |
Johanna Geisler
NERFINISHED
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Otto Klemperer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| servedIn | United States Army ⓘ |
| sibling | Lotte Klemperer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Kim Hamilton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Louise Troy NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Dempsay 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: Werner Klemperer Description of subject: Werner Klemperer was a German-American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Colonel Klink on the television series "Hogan's Heroes."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.