Erik Weisz
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Erik Weisz was the Hungarian-born illusionist and escape artist who became world-famous under the stage name Harry Houdini.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Erik Weisz canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10964320 — 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: Erik Weisz Context triple: [Harry Houdini, birthName, Erik Weisz]
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A.
George Weisz
George Weisz was a Hungarian-born inventor and mechanical engineer best known as the father of Academy Award–winning actress Rachel Weisz.
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B.
George Weil
George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
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C.
Stephen Endlicher
Stephen Endlicher was a 19th-century Austrian botanist and linguist known for his influential work in plant taxonomy and classification.
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D.
Thomas Weiss
Thomas Weiss is a relatively common personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different fields, rather than a single widely recognized public figure.
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E.
Carl Weiss
Carl Weiss was a Louisiana physician historically known as the alleged assassin of U.S. Senator Huey P. Long in 1935.
- 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: Erik Weisz Target entity description: Erik Weisz was the Hungarian-born illusionist and escape artist who became world-famous under the stage name Harry Houdini.
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A.
George Weisz
George Weisz was a Hungarian-born inventor and mechanical engineer best known as the father of Academy Award–winning actress Rachel Weisz.
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B.
George Weil
George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
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C.
Stephen Endlicher
Stephen Endlicher was a 19th-century Austrian botanist and linguist known for his influential work in plant taxonomy and classification.
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D.
Thomas Weiss
Thomas Weiss is a relatively common personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different fields, rather than a single widely recognized public figure.
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E.
Carl Weiss
Carl Weiss was a Louisiana physician historically known as the alleged assassin of U.S. Senator Huey P. Long in 1935.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
escape artist
ⓘ
human ⓘ illusionist ⓘ stage magician ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Ehrich Weiss
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Houdini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
peritonitis
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ruptured appendix ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Austria-Hungary
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1874-03-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1926-10-31 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Hungarian Jews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Mayer Sámuel Weisz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
escapology
ⓘ
magic ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasBirthName | Erik Weisz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStageName | Harry Houdini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | debunking spiritualist mediums ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Hungarian ⓘ |
| mother | Cecília Steiner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movedTo | United States of America ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
buried-alive stunt
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escape acts ⓘ handcuff escapes ⓘ straitjacket escapes ⓘ water torture cell escape ⓘ |
| occupation |
aviator
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escape artist ⓘ film actor ⓘ film producer ⓘ illusionist ⓘ stunt performer ⓘ |
| performedIn |
Europe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Austria-Hungary
NERFINISHED
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Budapest ⓘ Kingdom of Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Detroit
NERFINISHED
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Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| publishedWork |
A Magician Among the Spirits
NERFINISHED
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The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sibling | Theodore Hardeen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Bess Houdini
NERFINISHED
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Wilhelmina Beatrice Rahner 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: Erik Weisz Description of subject: Erik Weisz was the Hungarian-born illusionist and escape artist who became world-famous under the stage name Harry Houdini.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.