Carl
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Carl von Ossietzky was a German journalist, pacifist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate known for exposing clandestine German rearmament during the interwar period.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Carl canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9263166 — 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: Carl Context triple: [Carl von Ossietzky, givenName, Carl]
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Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl Sagan, the renowned American astronomer, science communicator, and author.
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Carl
Carl is the given name of the 19th-century German mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, renowned for his foundational work in elliptic functions and other areas of mathematics.
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Carl
Carl is the given name of the influential American microbiologist Carl Woese, known for defining the Archaea domain of life.
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Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl Bernstein, the American investigative journalist renowned for his reporting on the Watergate scandal.
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Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl von Linde, the German engineer and inventor known for pioneering refrigeration and gas liquefaction technologies.
- 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: Carl Target entity description: Carl von Ossietzky was a German journalist, pacifist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate known for exposing clandestine German rearmament during the interwar period.
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Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl Bosch, the German chemist and engineer who pioneered high-pressure industrial chemistry and shared the 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl Bernstein, the American investigative journalist renowned for his reporting on the Watergate scandal.
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Carl
Carl is the given name of the Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, renowned for his influential work "On War."
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Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl von Linde, the German engineer and inventor known for pioneering refrigeration and gas liquefaction technologies.
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Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl Schorske, a prominent American cultural and intellectual historian known for his influential work on fin-de-siècle Vienna.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel Peace Prize laureate
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human ⓘ journalist ⓘ pacifist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Nobel Peace Prize
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Nobel Prize in 1935 (Peace) ⓘ
linked to:
Nobel Peace Prize
|
| causeOfDeath |
consequences of imprisonment
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tuberculosis ⓘ |
| child | Rosalinde von Ossietzky-Palm ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
espionage
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treason ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
German Empire
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Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1889-10-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1938-05-04 ⓘ |
| detainedIn |
Esterwegen concentration camp
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Sonnenburg concentration camp ⓘ various Nazi prisons and camps ⓘ |
| employer | Die Weltbühne ⓘ |
| familyName |
von Ossietzky
ⓘ
linked to:
Carl von Ossietzky
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| givenName | Carl ⓘ |
| honouredIn |
Carl von Ossietzky Medal (civil rights award)
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linked to:
Carl von Ossietzky Medal
Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg ⓘ
linked to:
University of Oldenburg
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| imprisonedBy |
Nazi regime
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linked to:
Nazi Germany
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| knownFor |
exposing secret German rearmament in the interwar period
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opposition to German militarism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1913 ⓘ |
| militaryRank | soldier in World War I ⓘ |
| movement | pacifism ⓘ |
| name | Carl von Ossietzky ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeCategory | Peace ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeYear | 1935 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
articles in Die Weltbühne
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exposure of clandestine German rearmament ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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journalist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| opposedTo |
German rearmament after World War I
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Nazism ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Weimar Republic political debates
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World War I ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hamburg ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Berlin ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | left-liberal ⓘ |
| positionHeld | editor-in-chief of Die Weltbühne ⓘ |
| reasonForConviction | publishing information on secret German air force rearmament ⓘ |
| residence | Berlin ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Maud Lichfield-Woods ⓘ |
| subjectOf | treason trial in 1931 ⓘ |
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: Carl Description of subject: Carl von Ossietzky was a German journalist, pacifist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate known for exposing clandestine German rearmament during the interwar period.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.