Ferdinand von Schirach
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Ferdinand von Schirach is a German lawyer and bestselling author known for his crime stories and thought‑provoking works on law, guilt, and justice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ferdinand von Schirach canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11591242 — 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: Ferdinand von Schirach Context triple: [Kleist Prize, notableRecipient, Ferdinand von Schirach]
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A.
Carl von Schirach
Carl von Schirach was a German theatre director and nobleman who served as an intendant in Weimar and was the father of Nazi youth leader Baldur von Schirach.
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B.
Baldur von Schirach
Baldur von Schirach was a prominent Nazi leader who served as head of the Hitler Youth and later as Gauleiter of Vienna, and was convicted as a war criminal at the Nuremberg Trials.
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C.
Dietmar Salamon
Dietmar Salamon is a mathematician known for his influential work in symplectic geometry and topology, particularly in collaboration with Dusa McDuff.
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D.
Klemens Maria Hofbauer
Klemens Maria Hofbauer was an 18th–19th century Redemptorist priest and missionary, venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church and known as the “Apostle of Vienna” for his pastoral and reforming work there.
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E.
Hermann Kanzler
Hermann Kanzler was a 19th-century German-born general who served as the last commander-in-chief of the Papal States' army, notably defending Rome shortly before its annexation by the Kingdom of Italy.
- 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: Ferdinand von Schirach Target entity description: Ferdinand von Schirach is a German lawyer and bestselling author known for his crime stories and thought‑provoking works on law, guilt, and justice.
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A.
Carl von Schirach
Carl von Schirach was a German theatre director and nobleman who served as an intendant in Weimar and was the father of Nazi youth leader Baldur von Schirach.
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B.
Baldur von Schirach
Baldur von Schirach was a prominent Nazi leader who served as head of the Hitler Youth and later as Gauleiter of Vienna, and was convicted as a war criminal at the Nuremberg Trials.
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C.
Dietmar Salamon
Dietmar Salamon is a mathematician known for his influential work in symplectic geometry and topology, particularly in collaboration with Dusa McDuff.
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D.
Klemens Maria Hofbauer
Klemens Maria Hofbauer was an 18th–19th century Redemptorist priest and missionary, venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church and known as the “Apostle of Vienna” for his pastoral and reforming work there.
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E.
Hermann Kanzler
Hermann Kanzler was a 19th-century German-born general who served as the last commander-in-chief of the Papal States' army, notably defending Rome shortly before its annexation by the Kingdom of Italy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
KleistPrize
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
WürthPrizeForEuropeanLiterature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1964-05-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Bonn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | von Schirach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
criminalLaw
ⓘ
literature ⓘ |
| genre |
crimeFiction
ⓘ
legalFiction ⓘ shortStory ⓘ |
| givenName | Ferdinand ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
FilmDer Fall Collini
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
StagePlayTerror ⓘ TVSeriesSchuld ⓘ TVSeriesVerbrechen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelativeRole | grandsonOfBaldurVonSchirach ⓘ |
| isBestsellingAuthor | true ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| movement | contemporaryLiterature ⓘ |
| name | Ferdinand von Schirach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Der Fall Collini
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Die Würde ist antastbar NERFINISHED ⓘ Gott NERFINISHED ⓘ Kaffee und Zigaretten NERFINISHED ⓘ Nachmittage NERFINISHED ⓘ Schuld NERFINISHED ⓘ Strafe NERFINISHED ⓘ Tabu NERFINISHED ⓘ Terror NERFINISHED ⓘ Verbrechen ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
criminalDefenseLawyer ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Munich ⓘ |
| primaryTheme |
guilt
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justice ⓘ law ⓘ morality ⓘ |
| relative | Baldur von Schirach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
concise
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minimalist ⓘ |
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: Ferdinand von Schirach Description of subject: Ferdinand von Schirach is a German lawyer and bestselling author known for his crime stories and thought‑provoking works on law, guilt, and justice.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.