Herbert Windt
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Herbert Windt was a German composer best known for scoring several Nazi-era propaganda films, including Leni Riefenstahl’s works.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Herbert Windt canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2650941 — 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: Herbert Windt Context triple: [Olympia, musicBy, Herbert Windt]
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A.
Eberhard Schöngarth
Eberhard Schöngarth was a high-ranking Nazi SS and police leader involved in war crimes and the Holocaust, including participation in the Wannsee Conference.
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B.
Rudolf Schröder
Rudolf Schröder is a notable individual who bears the surname Schröder, recognized for his significance among people with that name.
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C.
Hans Wiegel
Hans Wiegel is a prominent Dutch liberal politician who served as leader of the VVD and as Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands in the late 20th century.
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D.
Ernst Woermann
Ernst Woermann was a German diplomat and high-ranking Foreign Office official in Nazi Germany who was later prosecuted for his role in the regime’s policies at the postwar Wilhelmstrasse Trial.
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E.
Johann Hünnemann
Johann Hünnemann was a person honored in botanical nomenclature as the namesake of the plant genus Hunnemannia.
- 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: Herbert Windt Target entity description: Herbert Windt was a German composer best known for scoring several Nazi-era propaganda films, including Leni Riefenstahl’s works.
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A.
Eberhard Schöngarth
Eberhard Schöngarth was a high-ranking Nazi SS and police leader involved in war crimes and the Holocaust, including participation in the Wannsee Conference.
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B.
Rudolf Schröder
Rudolf Schröder is a notable individual who bears the surname Schröder, recognized for his significance among people with that name.
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C.
Hans Wiegel
Hans Wiegel is a prominent Dutch liberal politician who served as leader of the VVD and as Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands in the late 20th century.
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D.
Ernst Woermann
Ernst Woermann was a German diplomat and high-ranking Foreign Office official in Nazi Germany who was later prosecuted for his role in the regime’s policies at the postwar Wilhelmstrasse Trial.
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E.
Johann Hünnemann
Johann Hünnemann was a person honored in botanical nomenclature as the namesake of the plant genus Hunnemannia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
ⓘ
film score composer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| citizenship |
German Empire
NERFINISHED
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Nazi Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ Weimar Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ West Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1894-09-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1965-11-30 ⓘ |
| employer |
German film industry
ⓘ
UFA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| genre |
film score
ⓘ
orchestral music ⓘ |
| knownFor |
collaboration with Leni Riefenstahl
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scoring Nazi propaganda films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | German Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Nazi cinema ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Der Sieg des Glaubens
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Der alte und der junge König NERFINISHED ⓘ Der ewige Wald NERFINISHED ⓘ Hitlerjunge Quex NERFINISHED ⓘ Morgenrot NERFINISHED ⓘ Olympia NERFINISHED ⓘ Pour le Mérite NERFINISHED ⓘ Triumph des Willens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
film score composer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | World War I ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Bamberg
NERFINISHED
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German Empire ⓘ Kingdom of Bavaria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Bavaria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Munich NERFINISHED ⓘ West Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Berlin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Munich ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Der Sieg des Glaubens
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Der alte und der junge König NERFINISHED ⓘ Der ewige Wald NERFINISHED ⓘ Hitlerjunge Quex NERFINISHED ⓘ Morgenrot NERFINISHED ⓘ Olympia NERFINISHED ⓘ Pour le Mérite NERFINISHED ⓘ Triumph des Willens 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: Herbert Windt Description of subject: Herbert Windt was a German composer best known for scoring several Nazi-era propaganda films, including Leni Riefenstahl’s works.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Olympia