Major Heinrich Strasser
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Major Heinrich Strasser is the primary Nazi antagonist in the classic 1942 film "Casablanca," serving as a ruthless German officer sent to capture resistance leader Victor Laszlo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Major Heinrich Strasser canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T379708 — 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: Major Heinrich Strasser Context triple: [Casablanca, character, Major Heinrich Strasser]
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A.
Johannes Blaskowitz
Johannes Blaskowitz was a German Wehrmacht colonel general during World War II, noted both for his military leadership in early campaigns and for his documented protests against SS atrocities in occupied Poland.
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B.
Günther von Kluge
Günther von Kluge was a senior German field marshal of World War II who held high command on the Eastern Front and later in Western Europe, becoming involved in the 20 July plot against Hitler.
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C.
Hans-Valentin Hube
Hans-Valentin Hube was a German Wehrmacht general of World War II, noted for his leadership of armored and infantry formations on the Eastern Front and in the Mediterranean, and for receiving the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds.
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D.
Walther von Reichenau
Walther von Reichenau was a German field marshal in the Wehrmacht during World War II, known for his leading role in early German campaigns and his involvement in Nazi war crimes on the Eastern Front.
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E.
Erich Dietl
Erich Dietl was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II, noted for his leadership of mountain troops on the Eastern Front and in Norway.
- 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: Major Heinrich Strasser Target entity description: Major Heinrich Strasser is the primary Nazi antagonist in the classic 1942 film "Casablanca," serving as a ruthless German officer sent to capture resistance leader Victor Laszlo.
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A.
Johannes Blaskowitz
Johannes Blaskowitz was a German Wehrmacht colonel general during World War II, noted both for his military leadership in early campaigns and for his documented protests against SS atrocities in occupied Poland.
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B.
Günther von Kluge
Günther von Kluge was a senior German field marshal of World War II who held high command on the Eastern Front and later in Western Europe, becoming involved in the 20 July plot against Hitler.
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C.
Hans-Valentin Hube
Hans-Valentin Hube was a German Wehrmacht general of World War II, noted for his leadership of armored and infantry formations on the Eastern Front and in the Mediterranean, and for receiving the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds.
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D.
Walther von Reichenau
Walther von Reichenau was a German field marshal in the Wehrmacht during World War II, known for his leading role in early German campaigns and his involvement in Nazi war crimes on the Eastern Front.
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E.
Erich Dietl
Erich Dietl was a German Wehrmacht general during World War II, noted for his leadership of mountain troops on the Eastern Front and in Norway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Major Heinrich Strasser Description of subject: Major Heinrich Strasser is the primary Nazi antagonist in the classic 1942 film "Casablanca," serving as a ruthless German officer sent to capture resistance leader Victor Laszlo.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.