Per Johan Valentin Anger
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Per Johan Valentin Anger was a Swedish diplomat renowned for helping to save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust during World War II, working alongside Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Per Johan Valentin Anger canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10505428 — 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: Per Johan Valentin Anger Context triple: [Per Anger, name, Per Johan Valentin Anger]
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A.
Johan Palmstruch
Johan Palmstruch was a 17th-century financier and entrepreneur best known for establishing one of Europe’s earliest note-issuing banks and pioneering the use of paper money in Sweden.
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B.
Erik Gustaf Geijer
Erik Gustaf Geijer was a prominent Swedish historian, writer, philosopher, and composer of the early 19th century, influential in shaping Swedish national romanticism and intellectual life.
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C.
Henrik Lissner
Henrik Lissner is a software developer best known as the creator and maintainer of the Doom Emacs configuration framework for Emacs.
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D.
Erik Axelsson Tott
Erik Axelsson Tott was a 15th-century Swedish nobleman and statesman from the influential Tott family who played a key role in the politics of the Kalmar Union era.
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E.
Olaf Hytten
Olaf Hytten was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting and uncredited roles in Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
- 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: Per Johan Valentin Anger Target entity description: Per Johan Valentin Anger was a Swedish diplomat renowned for helping to save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust during World War II, working alongside Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest.
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A.
Johan Palmstruch
Johan Palmstruch was a 17th-century financier and entrepreneur best known for establishing one of Europe’s earliest note-issuing banks and pioneering the use of paper money in Sweden.
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B.
Erik Gustaf Geijer
Erik Gustaf Geijer was a prominent Swedish historian, writer, philosopher, and composer of the early 19th century, influential in shaping Swedish national romanticism and intellectual life.
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C.
Henrik Lissner
Henrik Lissner is a software developer best known as the creator and maintainer of the Doom Emacs configuration framework for Emacs.
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D.
Erik Axelsson Tott
Erik Axelsson Tott was a 15th-century Swedish nobleman and statesman from the influential Tott family who played a key role in the politics of the Kalmar Union era.
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E.
Olaf Hytten
Olaf Hytten was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting and uncredited roles in Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Swedish diplomat
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human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Righteous Among the Nations ⓘ |
| causeSupported |
human rights
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protection of civilians in war ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Raoul Wallenberg ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Sweden ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Sweden ⓘ |
| countryRepresented | Sweden ⓘ |
| employer |
Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
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Swedish legation in Budapest ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupHelped | Hungarian Jews ⓘ |
| familyName | Anger ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
diplomacy
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humanitarian rescue ⓘ |
| givenName | Per ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole | secretary at the Swedish legation in Budapest ⓘ |
| honouredBy |
Yad Vashem
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linked to:
YadVashem
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| languageSpoken |
German
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Hungarian ⓘ Swedish ⓘ |
| motive | humanitarianism ⓘ |
| movement | Holocaust rescue ⓘ |
| name | Per Johan Valentin Anger ⓘ |
| notableEvent | helped save thousands of Hungarian Jews from deportation and death camps ⓘ |
| notableFor |
issuing provisional Swedish passports and protective documents to Jews in Budapest
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rescuing Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust ⓘ |
| notableWork | protective passports for Jews in Budapest ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
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diplomat ⓘ |
| opposedTo |
Nazism
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antisemitism ⓘ |
| participantIn |
World War II
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rescue of Jews in Budapest ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Gothenburg ⓘ |
| religion | Lutheranism ⓘ |
| residence | Stockholm ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Budapest
ⓘ
Hungary ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Per Johan Valentin Anger Description of subject: Per Johan Valentin Anger was a Swedish diplomat renowned for helping to save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust during World War II, working alongside Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.