Josef Sternberg
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Josef Sternberg is an alternate name for Josef von Sternberg, the influential Austrian-American film director best known for his visually stylized collaborations with Marlene Dietrich in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Josef Sternberg canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9098595 — 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: Josef Sternberg Context triple: [Josef von Sternberg, alsoKnownAs, Josef Sternberg]
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A.
Raoul Hausmann
Raoul Hausmann was an Austrian-born artist and writer best known as a leading figure of the Berlin Dada movement, pioneering photomontage and experimental sound poetry.
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B.
Ingo Preminger
Ingo Preminger was a film producer best known for producing the acclaimed 1970 anti-war black comedy "MASH."
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C.
Ernest Kinoy
Ernest Kinoy was an American screenwriter and playwright known for his work in television and film, including contributions to landmark miniseries and socially conscious dramas.
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D.
Herbert Lange
Herbert Lange was an SS officer and early commandant of the Chełmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp, where he played a key role in developing and implementing mass murder techniques during the Holocaust.
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E.
Lars Hirschfeld
Lars Hirschfeld is a Canadian former professional goalkeeper who represented Canada’s national soccer team and played for clubs in Europe and North America.
- 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: Josef Sternberg Target entity description: Josef Sternberg is an alternate name for Josef von Sternberg, the influential Austrian-American film director best known for his visually stylized collaborations with Marlene Dietrich in the early 20th century.
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A.
Raoul Hausmann
Raoul Hausmann was an Austrian-born artist and writer best known as a leading figure of the Berlin Dada movement, pioneering photomontage and experimental sound poetry.
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B.
Ingo Preminger
Ingo Preminger was a film producer best known for producing the acclaimed 1970 anti-war black comedy "MASH."
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C.
Ernest Kinoy
Ernest Kinoy was an American screenwriter and playwright known for his work in television and film, including contributions to landmark miniseries and socially conscious dramas.
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D.
Herbert Lange
Herbert Lange was an SS officer and early commandant of the Chełmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp, where he played a key role in developing and implementing mass murder techniques during the Holocaust.
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E.
Lars Hirschfeld
Lars Hirschfeld is a Canadian former professional goalkeeper who represented Canada’s national soccer team and played for clubs in Europe and North America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Josef Sternberg Description of subject: Josef Sternberg is an alternate name for Josef von Sternberg, the influential Austrian-American film director best known for his visually stylized collaborations with Marlene Dietrich in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.