Hugo Matuschek
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Hugo Matuschek is the demanding but ultimately kind-hearted owner of a Budapest leather goods shop in the classic romantic comedy film "The Shop Around the Corner."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hugo Matuschek canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5602043 — 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: Hugo Matuschek Context triple: [The Shop Around the Corner, hasCharacter, Hugo Matuschek]
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A.
Andreas Huber
Andreas Huber is a relatively common German-speaking personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as sports, engineering, and the arts.
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B.
Alexander Huber
Alexander Huber is a renowned German rock climber and mountaineer, famous for his bold free climbs, speed records, and groundbreaking ascents often undertaken with his brother Thomas Huber as part of the "Huberbuam" duo.
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C.
Markus Morgenstern
Markus Morgenstern is a mathematician known for his contributions to combinatorics and graph theory.
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D.
Johann Hohenstein
Johann Hohenstein was an early 16th-century printer known for producing works by the English Bible translator William Tyndale.
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E.
Christoph Sauer
Christoph Sauer was an 18th-century German-American printer and publisher known for producing one of the earliest German-language Bibles in North America.
- 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: Hugo Matuschek Target entity description: Hugo Matuschek is the demanding but ultimately kind-hearted owner of a Budapest leather goods shop in the classic romantic comedy film "The Shop Around the Corner."
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A.
Andreas Huber
Andreas Huber is a relatively common German-speaking personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as sports, engineering, and the arts.
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B.
Alexander Huber
Alexander Huber is a renowned German rock climber and mountaineer, famous for his bold free climbs, speed records, and groundbreaking ascents often undertaken with his brother Thomas Huber as part of the "Huberbuam" duo.
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C.
Markus Morgenstern
Markus Morgenstern is a mathematician known for his contributions to combinatorics and graph theory.
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D.
Johann Hohenstein
Johann Hohenstein was an early 16th-century printer known for producing works by the English Bible translator William Tyndale.
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E.
Christoph Sauer
Christoph Sauer was an 18th-century German-American printer and publisher known for producing one of the earliest German-language Bibles in North America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm | The Shop Around the Corner ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Miklós László ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Parfumerie ⓘ |
| characterDevelopment | becomes more understanding and appreciative of his employees ⓘ |
| characterIn | The Shop Around the Corner ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | Hungary ⓘ |
| emotionalArc | from suspicion and anger to reconciliation and warmth toward staff ⓘ |
| employer | Matuschek and Company ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverseLocation | Budapest ⓘ |
| filmDirector | Ernst Lubitsch ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1940 ⓘ |
| filmStudio | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfFilm | English ⓘ |
| medium | motion picture ⓘ |
| name | Hugo Matuschek ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
employer of the protagonists
ⓘ
source of conflict at the workplace ⓘ |
| notableRelationship |
Alfred Kralik
ⓘ
Ferencz Vadas ⓘ Klára Novak ⓘ
linked to:
Klara Novak
Pirovitch ⓘ |
| notableScene | rehires Alfred Kralik and shows renewed kindness to employees ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
shop owner ⓘ |
| owns | Matuschek and Company ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
demanding
ⓘ
generous ⓘ kind-hearted ⓘ proud ⓘ temperamental ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Frank Morgan ⓘ |
| roleInStory | owner of the shop where the main characters work ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | leather goods shop ⓘ |
| shopSpecialty | leather goods ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | late 1930s ⓘ |
| workLocation | Budapest ⓘ |
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: Hugo Matuschek Description of subject: Hugo Matuschek is the demanding but ultimately kind-hearted owner of a Budapest leather goods shop in the classic romantic comedy film "The Shop Around the Corner."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.