Plattner
E829917
Plattner is a German surname most prominently associated with Hasso Plattner, the billionaire co-founder of the software company SAP.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Plattner canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9926052 — 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: Plattner Context triple: [Hasso Plattner, familyName, Plattner]
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A.
Platt
Platt is a minor character in the play "Inherit the Wind," which dramatizes the famous Scopes "Monkey" Trial and explores the conflict between religious fundamentalism and the teaching of evolution.
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B.
Purtscheller
Purtscheller is a German-language surname most notably associated with Austrian mountaineer Ludwig Purtscheller, a pioneer of Alpine climbing.
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C.
Pressler
Pressler is a German-born American pianist renowned as the founding member and longtime pianist of the Beaux Arts Trio.
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D.
Plöckenstein
Plöckenstein is a mountain on the border of Austria, Germany, and the Czech Republic, known as the highest peak of the Bohemian Forest.
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E.
Rattenberg
Rattenberg is a small municipality in the Straubing-Bogen district of Lower Bavaria, Germany, known for its rural setting and traditional Bavarian character.
- 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: Plattner Target entity description: Plattner is a German surname most prominently associated with Hasso Plattner, the billionaire co-founder of the software company SAP.
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A.
Platt
Platt is a minor character in the play "Inherit the Wind," which dramatizes the famous Scopes "Monkey" Trial and explores the conflict between religious fundamentalism and the teaching of evolution.
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B.
Purtscheller
Purtscheller is a German-language surname most notably associated with Austrian mountaineer Ludwig Purtscheller, a pioneer of Alpine climbing.
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C.
Pressler
Pressler is a German-born American pianist renowned as the founding member and longtime pianist of the Beaux Arts Trio.
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D.
Plöckenstein
Plöckenstein is a mountain on the border of Austria, Germany, and the Czech Republic, known as the highest peak of the Bohemian Forest.
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E.
Rattenberg
Rattenberg is a small municipality in the Straubing-Bogen district of Lower Bavaria, Germany, known for its rural setting and traditional Bavarian character.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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research institute ⓘ software company ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Austria
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Germany ⓘ Germany ⓘ |
| coFounded | SAP SE ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
IT systems engineering
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analytical chemistry ⓘ computer science ⓘ enterprise software ⓘ enterprise software ⓘ |
| founded | Hasso Plattner Institute ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalOrigin | German-speaking regions of Central Europe ⓘ |
| hasNetWorthStatus | billionaire ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Felix Plattner
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Hasso Plattner ⓘ Hasso Plattner Institute ⓘ Karl Friedrich Plattner ⓘ Maria Plattner ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding SAP SE ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of SAP R/3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
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chemist ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ footballer ⓘ ice hockey player ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chairman of the supervisory board of SAP SE ⓘ |
| sport |
association football
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ice hockey ⓘ |
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: Plattner Description of subject: Plattner is a German surname most prominently associated with Hasso Plattner, the billionaire co-founder of the software company SAP.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.