Werl Prison
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Werl Prison is a correctional facility in Werl, Germany, historically used by the Allies after World War II to incarcerate high-ranking Nazi war criminals.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Justizvollzugsanstalt Werl | 2 |
| Spandau Prison | 2 |
| Werl Prison canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T127576 — 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.
Target entity: Werl Prison Context triple: [Albert Kesselring, placeOfDetention, Werl Prison]
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A.
Landsberg Prison
Landsberg Prison is a Bavarian detention facility best known as the place where Adolf Hitler was incarcerated in 1924 and wrote much of "Mein Kampf."
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B.
Pentonville
Pentonville is a district in North London, England, historically known as a 19th-century residential and industrial area associated with notable figures and institutions.
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C.
Halden
Halden is a historic border town and municipality in southeastern Norway, known for the Fredriksten fortress and its location near the Swedish border.
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D.
Suitland Federal Center
Suitland Federal Center is a major U.S. federal office complex in Suitland, Maryland, that houses several government agencies and serves as a key hub for federal statistical and intelligence operations.
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E.
Rikers Island
Rikers Island is a large New York City jail complex located in the East River between Queens and the Bronx, known for housing thousands of detainees and for its troubled history of violence and poor conditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Werl Prison Target entity description: Werl Prison is a correctional facility in Werl, Germany, historically used by the Allies after World War II to incarcerate high-ranking Nazi war criminals.
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A.
Landsberg Prison
Landsberg Prison is a Bavarian detention facility best known as the place where Adolf Hitler was incarcerated in 1924 and wrote much of "Mein Kampf."
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B.
Pentonville
Pentonville is a district in North London, England, historically known as a 19th-century residential and industrial area associated with notable figures and institutions.
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C.
Halden
Halden is a historic border town and municipality in southeastern Norway, known for the Fredriksten fortress and its location near the Swedish border.
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D.
Suitland Federal Center
Suitland Federal Center is a major U.S. federal office complex in Suitland, Maryland, that houses several government agencies and serves as a key hub for federal statistical and intelligence operations.
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E.
Rikers Island
Rikers Island is a large New York City jail complex located in the East River between Queens and the Bronx, known for housing thousands of detainees and for its troubled history of violence and poor conditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
correctional facility
ⓘ
prison ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Werl Prison
ⓘ
surface form:
Justizvollzugsanstalt Werl
|
| hasBuildingUse | penal institution ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
pre-trial detention
ⓘ
rehabilitation of offenders ⓘ sentence execution ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalPeriodOfSpecialUse | immediate post-war years ⓘ |
| hasInmateType |
adult male prisoners
ⓘ
long-term prisoners ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
North Rhine-Westphalia
ⓘ
surface form:
state of North Rhine-Westphalia
|
| hasLanguageOfAdministration | German ⓘ |
| hasLegalBasis | German penal law ⓘ |
| hasNotableCategoryOfPrisoners |
Nazi war criminals
ⓘ
military war criminals ⓘ |
| hasNotableHistoricalAspect | use by occupying Allied forces for Nazi war criminals ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryPurpose | deprivation of liberty as criminal sanction ⓘ |
| hasSecondaryPurpose | social reintegration of offenders ⓘ |
| hasSecurityFeature |
controlled access gates
ⓘ
guard towers ⓘ perimeter walls ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfManagement | state-run prison ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
Allied war crimes prison after World War II
ⓘ
detention site for convicted Nazi war criminals ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Germany
ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Republic of Germany
Werl ⓘ former British occupation zone in Germany ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Arnsberg region
ⓘ
North Rhine-Westphalia ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | post-World War II period ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Dortmund
ⓘ
Soest ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Europe ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia ⓘ |
| partOf |
German prison system
ⓘ
penal system of North Rhine-Westphalia ⓘ |
| securityClassification | high-security prison ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
documentation on post-war denazification
ⓘ
historical studies on Allied war crimes prisons ⓘ |
| usedAfter | World War II ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Allies of World War II
ⓘ
surface form:
Allied powers
American occupation authorities ⓘ British occupation authorities ⓘ French occupation authorities ⓘ |
| usedFor |
detention of high-ranking Nazi officials
ⓘ
execution holding prior to transfer or sentence completion ⓘ incarceration of war criminals ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Werl Prison Description of subject: Werl Prison is a correctional facility in Werl, Germany, historically used by the Allies after World War II to incarcerate high-ranking Nazi war criminals.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.