Major Toht
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Major Toht is the sadistic, black-clad Gestapo agent and primary Nazi antagonist in the film "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Major Toht canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10706613 — 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 Toht Context triple: [Ronald Lacey, notableRole, Major Toht]
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A.
Rankoth Vehera
Rankoth Vehera is a large, historically significant Buddhist stupa in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka, renowned for its monumental brick construction and association with the island’s medieval Sinhalese kingdom.
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B.
Araglas
Araglas is a lesser-known Dúnedain noble of Númenórean descent from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, belonging to the royal line of Isildur.
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C.
Mulgarath
Mulgarath is the primary shapeshifting ogre antagonist in The Spiderwick Chronicles, seeking to obtain a powerful field guide to dominate the magical world.
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D.
Mor'du
Mor'du is the monstrous, cursed bear and primary antagonist in Disney-Pixar's animated film "Brave."
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E.
Dorohusk
Dorohusk is a village in eastern Poland near the Ukrainian border, known as an important road and rail border crossing point between the two countries.
- 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 Toht Target entity description: Major Toht is the sadistic, black-clad Gestapo agent and primary Nazi antagonist in the film "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
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A.
Rankoth Vehera
Rankoth Vehera is a large, historically significant Buddhist stupa in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka, renowned for its monumental brick construction and association with the island’s medieval Sinhalese kingdom.
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B.
Araglas
Araglas is a lesser-known Dúnedain noble of Númenórean descent from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, belonging to the royal line of Isildur.
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C.
Mulgarath
Mulgarath is the primary shapeshifting ogre antagonist in The Spiderwick Chronicles, seeking to obtain a powerful field guide to dominate the magical world.
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D.
Mor'du
Mor'du is the monstrous, cursed bear and primary antagonist in Disney-Pixar's animated film "Brave."
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E.
Dorohusk
Dorohusk is a village in eastern Poland near the Ukrainian border, known as an important road and rail border crossing point between the two countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Nazi Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alignment | villain ⓘ |
| antagonistIn | Raiders of the Lost Ark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Raiders of the Lost Ark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | pulp-inspired adventure ⓘ |
| basedOnConceptBy | George Lucas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | supernatural destruction from the Ark of the Covenant ⓘ |
| costumeColor | black ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | George Lucas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathSceneIn | opening of the Ark of the Covenant ⓘ |
| directorOfWorkAppearedIn | Steven Spielberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributorOfWork | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemyOf | Indiana Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalEthnicity | German ⓘ |
| fictionalOrganization | Gestapo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Indiana Jones universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Raiders of the Lost Ark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | Indiana Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Arnold Ernst Toht NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
action film
ⓘ
adventure film ⓘ |
| languageOfPortrayal | English ⓘ |
| loyalTo | Adolf Hitler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| musicComposerOfWork | John Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | German ⓘ |
| notableFeatureInFandom | memorable melting face death scene GENERATED ⓘ |
| notablePropAssociated | coat hanger that folds into a hanger ⓘ |
| notableScene | burns his hand on the headpiece of the Staff of Ra ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
ruthless
ⓘ
sadistic ⓘ |
| occupation | Gestapo agent ⓘ |
| physicalCharacteristic |
black trench coat
ⓘ
wears round glasses ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Ronald Lacey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryMotivation | securing the Ark of the Covenant for the Nazis ⓘ |
| productionCompanyOfWork | Lucasfilm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pursuesObject | Ark of the Covenant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rank | Major ⓘ |
| screenwriterOfWork | Lawrence Kasdan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | 1936 ⓘ |
| weapon | pistol ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Colonel Dietrich
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
René Belloq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Major Toht Description of subject: Major Toht is the sadistic, black-clad Gestapo agent and primary Nazi antagonist in the film "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.