David Frankfurter
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David Frankfurter was a Jewish medical student best known for assassinating Swiss Nazi leader Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936, an event later revisited in Günter Grass’s novella "Crabwalk."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Frankfurter canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6827430 — 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: David Frankfurter Context triple: [Crabwalk, character, David Frankfurter]
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A.
David Rosenblum
David Rosenblum is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential research in software engineering and formal methods.
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B.
Philip Goldstein
Philip Goldstein, better known as Philip Guston, was a prominent 20th-century painter associated with Abstract Expressionism who later became renowned for his bold, cartoonish figurative works.
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C.
Paul Goldstein
Paul Goldstein is a prominent American legal scholar and author, best known for his influential work in intellectual property and copyright law.
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D.
Marshall Herskovitz
Marshall Herskovitz is an American film and television producer, director, and screenwriter best known for his collaborations with Edward Zwick on projects such as "thirtysomething," "Legends of the Fall," and "The Last Samurai."
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E.
Bernard Frank
Bernard Frank was an American conservationist and environmental advocate best known for helping to establish The Wilderness Society and promoting the protection of wild lands in the United States.
- 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: David Frankfurter Target entity description: David Frankfurter was a Jewish medical student best known for assassinating Swiss Nazi leader Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936, an event later revisited in Günter Grass’s novella "Crabwalk."
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A.
David Rosenblum
David Rosenblum is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential research in software engineering and formal methods.
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B.
Philip Goldstein
Philip Goldstein, better known as Philip Guston, was a prominent 20th-century painter associated with Abstract Expressionism who later became renowned for his bold, cartoonish figurative works.
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C.
Paul Goldstein
Paul Goldstein is a prominent American legal scholar and author, best known for his influential work in intellectual property and copyright law.
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D.
Marshall Herskovitz
Marshall Herskovitz is an American film and television producer, director, and screenwriter best known for his collaborations with Edward Zwick on projects such as "thirtysomething," "Legends of the Fall," and "The Last Samurai."
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E.
Bernard Frank
Bernard Frank was an American conservationist and environmental advocate best known for helping to establish The Wilderness Society and promoting the protection of wild lands in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish person
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assassin ⓘ novella ⓘ person ⓘ |
| author | Günter Grass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1909-07-09 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Austria-Hungary
NERFINISHED
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Daruvár NERFINISHED ⓘ Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| convictedOf | murder ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Yugoslavia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | 1936-02-04 ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1982-07-19 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jews ⓘ |
| expelledTo | Liechtenstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Frankfurter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | medicine ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredWork | Crabwalk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | assassinating Wilhelm Gustloff ⓘ |
| laterLivedIn |
Israel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Palestine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motive | anti-Nazi conviction ⓘ |
| notableWork | assassination of Wilhelm Gustloff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
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medical student ⓘ |
| opposedTo | Nazism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pardonDate | 1945-06-01 ⓘ |
| pardonedBy | Swiss Federal Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| perpetratorOf | assassination of Wilhelm Gustloff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Haifa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfEvent |
Davos
NERFINISHED
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Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releasedFromPrison | 1945 ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| sentence |
18 years imprisonment
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expulsion from Switzerland ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Crabwalk
NERFINISHED
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historical studies on anti-Nazi resistance ⓘ |
| victim | Wilhelm Gustloff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasTriedIn | Switzerland 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: David Frankfurter Description of subject: David Frankfurter was a Jewish medical student best known for assassinating Swiss Nazi leader Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936, an event later revisited in Günter Grass’s novella "Crabwalk."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.