Henryk Sucharski
E61928
Henryk Sucharski was a Polish military officer best known for commanding the heroic defense of the Westerplatte peninsula during the opening days of World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henryk Sucharski canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T481920 — 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: Henryk Sucharski Context triple: [German attack on Westerplatte, hasOpposingCommander, Henryk Sucharski]
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A.
Władysław Bortnowski
Władysław Bortnowski was a Polish general best known for his leadership of Polish forces during the 1939 defensive campaign against Nazi Germany, including his prominent role in the Battle of the Bzura.
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B.
August Zaleski
August Zaleski was a Polish diplomat and politician who served as President of Poland in exile after World War II.
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C.
Stanisław Radkiewicz
Stanisław Radkiewicz was a Polish communist politician and security official who served as one of the key figures in establishing and overseeing the postwar communist security apparatus in Poland.
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D.
Józef Lipski
Józef Lipski was a Polish diplomat who served as Poland’s ambassador to Nazi Germany in the 1930s and played a key role in pre–World War II Polish foreign policy.
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E.
Stanisław Wojciechowski
Stanisław Wojciechowski was a Polish politician and statesman who served as President of Poland from 1922 to 1926, during the turbulent interwar period.
- 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: Henryk Sucharski Target entity description: Henryk Sucharski was a Polish military officer best known for commanding the heroic defense of the Westerplatte peninsula during the opening days of World War II.
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A.
Władysław Bortnowski
Władysław Bortnowski was a Polish general best known for his leadership of Polish forces during the 1939 defensive campaign against Nazi Germany, including his prominent role in the Battle of the Bzura.
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B.
August Zaleski
August Zaleski was a Polish diplomat and politician who served as President of Poland in exile after World War II.
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C.
Stanisław Radkiewicz
Stanisław Radkiewicz was a Polish communist politician and security official who served as one of the key figures in establishing and overseeing the postwar communist security apparatus in Poland.
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D.
Józef Lipski
Józef Lipski was a Polish diplomat who served as Poland’s ambassador to Nazi Germany in the 1930s and played a key role in pre–World War II Polish foreign policy.
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E.
Stanisław Wojciechowski
Stanisław Wojciechowski was a Polish politician and statesman who served as President of Poland from 1922 to 1926, during the turbulent interwar period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Polish military officer
ⓘ
World War II prisoner of war ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance | Second Polish Republic ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Cross of Valour (Poland)
ⓘ
Virtuti Militari ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Westerplatte cemetery of the defenders
ⓘ
surface form:
Westerplatte
|
| capturedBy | Wehrmacht ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
monuments at Westerplatte
ⓘ
streets named after him in Poland ⓘ |
| conflict |
Invasion of Poland
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
Austro-Hungarian Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Austria-Hungary
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Poland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1898-11-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1946-08-30 ⓘ |
| detainedIn | German prisoner-of-war camp ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Poles ⓘ |
| familyName | Sucharski ⓘ |
| genreOfNotability | military history ⓘ |
| givenName | Henryk ⓘ |
| hasPartInNarrative |
Invasion of Poland
ⓘ
surface form:
Polish September Campaign
|
| hasRoleIn | symbol of Polish resistance in 1939 ⓘ |
| memorializedIn |
Polish literature about Westerplatte
ⓘ
films about the defense of Westerplatte ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Polish Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
captain
ⓘ
major ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Polish ⓘ |
| notableFor |
German attack on Westerplatte
ⓘ
surface form:
defense of Westerplatte
|
| occupation |
military officer
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Polish–Soviet War
ⓘ
German attack on Westerplatte ⓘ
surface form:
defense of Westerplatte
|
| placeOfBirth | Gręboszów ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Naples
ⓘ
surface form:
Neapol
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| positionHeld | commandant of the Military Transit Depot at Westerplatte ⓘ |
| serviceEnd | 1945 ⓘ |
| serviceStart | World War I era ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Henryk Sucharski Description of subject: Henryk Sucharski was a Polish military officer best known for commanding the heroic defense of the Westerplatte peninsula during the opening days of World War II.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.