Heinrich von Breymann
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Heinrich von Breymann was a German (Brunswick) officer in the British service during the American Revolutionary War, best known for his role and death in the Saratoga campaign.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Heinrich von Breymann canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2878335 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Heinrich von Breymann Context triple: [Battle of Bennington, commander, Heinrich von Breymann]
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Franz von Holzhausen
Franz von Holzhausen is an American automobile designer best known as Tesla’s chief designer, responsible for the styling of vehicles such as the Model S, Model 3, Model X, Model Y, and the Cybertruck.
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B.
Karl von Fasbender
Karl von Fasbender was a German general of the Imperial German Army during World War I, noted for his leadership on the Western Front.
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Friedrich Hoßbach
Friedrich Hoßbach was a German Wehrmacht general best known for authoring the 1937 "Hoßbach Memorandum," a key document revealing Adolf Hitler’s expansionist plans before World War II.
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D.
Franz von Lauer
Franz von Lauer was an Austrian general of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his service in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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E.
Richard von Kühlmann
Richard von Kühlmann was a German diplomat and Foreign Secretary of the German Empire during World War I, known for his role in negotiating key wartime treaties.
- 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: Heinrich von Breymann Target entity description: Heinrich von Breymann was a German (Brunswick) officer in the British service during the American Revolutionary War, best known for his role and death in the Saratoga campaign.
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A.
Franz von Holzhausen
Franz von Holzhausen is an American automobile designer best known as Tesla’s chief designer, responsible for the styling of vehicles such as the Model S, Model 3, Model X, Model Y, and the Cybertruck.
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B.
Karl von Fasbender
Karl von Fasbender was a German general of the Imperial German Army during World War I, noted for his leadership on the Western Front.
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C.
Friedrich Hoßbach
Friedrich Hoßbach was a German Wehrmacht general best known for authoring the 1937 "Hoßbach Memorandum," a key document revealing Adolf Hitler’s expansionist plans before World War II.
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D.
Franz von Lauer
Franz von Lauer was an Austrian general of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his service in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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E.
Richard von Kühlmann
Richard von Kühlmann was a German diplomat and Foreign Secretary of the German Empire during World War I, known for his role in negotiating key wartime treaties.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brunswick officer
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German person ⓘ military officer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg
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Great Britain ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg ⓘ |
| employer |
British Army (auxiliary service)
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linked to:
Brunswick auxiliary corps in British service
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| era | 18th century ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | soldier ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | German ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Brunswick army
ⓘ
linked to:
Brunswick Army
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| notableEvent | killed while attempting to rally his troops at Bemis Heights ⓘ |
| notableFor |
death at the Battle of Bemis Heights
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service in the Saratoga campaign ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Bemis Heights
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Battle of Freeman’s Farm ⓘ
linked to:
Battle of Freeman's Farm
Saratoga campaign ⓘ |
| partOf |
Brunswick contingent in Burgoyne’s army
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linked to:
Brunswick dragoons
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| placeOfDeath | near Saratoga, New York ⓘ |
| positionHeld | commander of the Brunswick grenadier battalion von Breymann ⓘ |
| rank | lieutenant colonel ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | Loyalist / British side in the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
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: Heinrich von Breymann Description of subject: Heinrich von Breymann was a German (Brunswick) officer in the British service during the American Revolutionary War, best known for his role and death in the Saratoga campaign.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.