Wolfgang Preiss
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Wolfgang Preiss was a German actor best known for his frequent portrayals of military officers in World War II films and television productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wolfgang Preiss canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7581184 — 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: Wolfgang Preiss Context triple: [The Winds of War, castMember, Wolfgang Preiss]
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A.
Reinhold Seeberg
Reinhold Seeberg was a prominent German Lutheran theologian and church historian known for his influential work on dogmatics and for mentoring figures such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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B.
Wolfgang Schmieder
Wolfgang Schmieder was a German musicologist best known for creating the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis, the standard thematic catalog of Johann Sebastian Bach’s works.
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C.
Gerd Strohmeier
Gerd Strohmeier is a German political scientist and university administrator who serves as the rector of Chemnitz University of Technology.
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D.
Harald Ganzinger
Harald Ganzinger was a prominent German computer scientist known for his influential work in automated theorem proving and term rewriting systems.
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E.
Eckhard Pfeiffer
Eckhard Pfeiffer is a German-American businessman best known for serving as CEO of Compaq Computer Corporation during its rapid expansion in the 1990s.
- 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: Wolfgang Preiss Target entity description: Wolfgang Preiss was a German actor best known for his frequent portrayals of military officers in World War II films and television productions.
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A.
Reinhold Seeberg
Reinhold Seeberg was a prominent German Lutheran theologian and church historian known for his influential work on dogmatics and for mentoring figures such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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B.
Wolfgang Schmieder
Wolfgang Schmieder was a German musicologist best known for creating the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis, the standard thematic catalog of Johann Sebastian Bach’s works.
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C.
Gerd Strohmeier
Gerd Strohmeier is a German political scientist and university administrator who serves as the rector of Chemnitz University of Technology.
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D.
Harald Ganzinger
Harald Ganzinger was a prominent German computer scientist known for his influential work in automated theorem proving and term rewriting systems.
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E.
Eckhard Pfeiffer
Eckhard Pfeiffer is a German-American businessman best known for serving as CEO of Compaq Computer Corporation during its rapid expansion in the 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1930s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | German Film Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1910-02-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2002-11-27 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Germans ⓘ |
| familyName | Preiss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
historical film
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war film ⓘ |
| givenName | Wolfgang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| name | Wolfgang Preiss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portrayals of military officers in World War II films
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portrayals of military officers in World War II television productions ⓘ |
| notableRole | Field Marshal Erwin Rommel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Bridge Too Far
NERFINISHED
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Is Paris Burning? NERFINISHED ⓘ Raid on Rommel NERFINISHED ⓘ The Boys from Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ The Devil Strikes at Night NERFINISHED ⓘ The Devil's General NERFINISHED ⓘ The Eagle Has Landed NERFINISHED ⓘ The Longest Day NERFINISHED ⓘ The Plot to Assassinate Hitler NERFINISHED ⓘ The Train NERFINISHED ⓘ The Winds of War NERFINISHED ⓘ Von Ryan's Express NERFINISHED ⓘ War and Remembrance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
German Empire
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Kingdom of Bavaria NERFINISHED ⓘ Nuremberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Büdesheim
NERFINISHED
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Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ Rhineland-Palatinate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Ruth Preiss 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: Wolfgang Preiss Description of subject: Wolfgang Preiss was a German actor best known for his frequent portrayals of military officers in World War II films and television productions.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.