Fort VII Colomb
E1000107
Fort VII Colomb was a 19th-century Prussian fortress in Poznań later infamously used by Nazi Germany as one of the first concentration camps in occupied Poland.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fort VII Colomb canonical | 2 |
| Fort VII | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12726575 — 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: Fort VII Colomb Context triple: [Poznań Fort VII concentration camp, originalName, Fort VII Colomb]
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A.
Fort Santiago
Fort Santiago is a historic Spanish-era citadel in Manila, Philippines, renowned as a key military defense structure and as the prison where national hero José Rizal was held before his execution.
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B.
Fort San Felipe
Fort San Felipe is a historic Spanish-era coastal fortress in Cavite City, Philippines, notable for its role in colonial defense and early Filipino resistance movements.
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C.
Fort Vasquez
Fort Vasquez is a reconstructed 19th-century fur trading post in Colorado that now serves as a historic site interpreting the early fur trade and frontier life on the Great Plains.
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D.
Fort Margherita
Fort Margherita is a 19th-century riverside fortress in Kuching, Sarawak, built during the Brooke era and now serving as a historical landmark and museum.
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E.
Fort Conde
Fort Conde is a reconstructed 18th-century French colonial fort and museum in Mobile, Alabama, that interprets the region’s early military and colonial history.
- 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: Fort VII Colomb Target entity description: Fort VII Colomb was a 19th-century Prussian fortress in Poznań later infamously used by Nazi Germany as one of the first concentration camps in occupied Poland.
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A.
Fort Santiago
Fort Santiago is a historic Spanish-era citadel in Manila, Philippines, renowned as a key military defense structure and as the prison where national hero José Rizal was held before his execution.
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B.
Fort San Felipe
Fort San Felipe is a historic Spanish-era coastal fortress in Cavite City, Philippines, notable for its role in colonial defense and early Filipino resistance movements.
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C.
Fort Vasquez
Fort Vasquez is a reconstructed 19th-century fur trading post in Colorado that now serves as a historic site interpreting the early fur trade and frontier life on the Great Plains.
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D.
Fort Margherita
Fort Margherita is a 19th-century riverside fortress in Kuching, Sarawak, built during the Brooke era and now serving as a historical landmark and museum.
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E.
Fort Conde
Fort Conde is a reconstructed 18th-century French colonial fort and museum in Mobile, Alabama, that interprets the region’s early military and colonial history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nazi concentration camp
ⓘ
fortress ⓘ museum ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Fort Colomb
ⓘ
Fort VII ⓘ Fort VII Colomb in Poznań ⓘ
linked to:
Fort VII in Poznań fortress system
Fort VII Posen ⓘ Konzentrationslager Posen ⓘ |
| builtBy |
Kingdom of Prussia
ⓘ
linked to:
Prussia
|
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| constructionEnd | 1880 ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1876 ⓘ |
| country | Poland ⓘ |
| currentUse |
museum
ⓘ
place of remembrance ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | victims of Nazi terror ⓘ |
| estimatedNumberOfPrisoners | thousands ⓘ |
| hasPart |
cells
ⓘ
execution sites ⓘ exhibition rooms ⓘ torture chambers ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | memorial site ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
19th century
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German occupation of Poland ⓘ |
| inceptionAsConcentrationCamp | 1939 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Greater Poland Voivodeship
ⓘ
Poznań ⓘ Prussia ⓘ occupied Poland ⓘ western part of Poznań ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Friedrich August Peter von Colomb ⓘ |
| oneOf | first Nazi concentration camps in occupied Poland ⓘ |
| operator |
Gestapo
ⓘ
Nazi Germany ⓘ SS ⓘ |
| partOf |
Festung Posen
ⓘ
linked to:
Fort VII Posen
Poznań Fortress system ⓘ
linked to:
Fort VII in Poznań fortress system
|
| usedAs |
German Wehrmacht facility
ⓘ
Gestapo prison ⓘ Nazi concentration camp ⓘ Prussian military fortress ⓘ SS-run camp ⓘ chemical weapons research site ⓘ |
| usedFor |
early gas killings experiments
ⓘ
executions ⓘ extermination of Polish elites ⓘ imprisonment of Jews ⓘ imprisonment of Polish intelligentsia ⓘ imprisonment of clergy ⓘ imprisonment of political prisoners ⓘ torture ⓘ |
| victimGroup |
Jews
ⓘ
Poles ⓘ clergy ⓘ members of Polish resistance ⓘ prisoners of war ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Fort VII Colomb Description of subject: Fort VII Colomb was a 19th-century Prussian fortress in Poznań later infamously used by Nazi Germany as one of the first concentration camps in occupied Poland.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Fort VII Colomb