Sobibor extermination camp uprising
E292055
The Sobibor extermination camp uprising was a 1943 prisoner revolt in the Nazi death camp Sobibor, in which inmates organized a mass escape that led to the camp’s closure and became one of the most significant acts of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2734722 — 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: Sobibor extermination camp uprising Context triple: [Alexander Pechersky, participatedIn, Sobibor extermination camp uprising]
-
A.
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a 1943 Jewish-led armed resistance against Nazi efforts to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto, becoming a powerful symbol of defiance during the Holocaust.
-
B.
Birkenau cycle
The Birkenau cycle is a series of abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter that grapple with the memory and representation of the Holocaust, based on blurred and overpainted photographs from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
-
C.
Wawer massacre
The Wawer massacre was a World War II mass execution of Polish civilians by German occupiers near Warsaw in December 1939, regarded as one of the first large-scale Nazi atrocities against the Polish population.
-
D.
Rumbula massacre
The Rumbula massacre was a mass killing of Latvian and German Jews near Riga in late 1941, one of the largest Holocaust shootings in Eastern Europe.
-
E.
Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto established by Nazi Germany during World War II, notorious for its extreme overcrowding, starvation, and the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
- 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: Sobibor extermination camp uprising Target entity description: The Sobibor extermination camp uprising was a 1943 prisoner revolt in the Nazi death camp Sobibor, in which inmates organized a mass escape that led to the camp’s closure and became one of the most significant acts of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust.
-
A.
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a 1943 Jewish-led armed resistance against Nazi efforts to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto, becoming a powerful symbol of defiance during the Holocaust.
-
B.
Birkenau cycle
The Birkenau cycle is a series of abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter that grapple with the memory and representation of the Holocaust, based on blurred and overpainted photographs from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
-
C.
Wawer massacre
The Wawer massacre was a World War II mass execution of Polish civilians by German occupiers near Warsaw in December 1939, regarded as one of the first large-scale Nazi atrocities against the Polish population.
-
D.
Rumbula massacre
The Rumbula massacre was a mass killing of Latvian and German Jews near Riga in late 1941, one of the largest Holocaust shootings in Eastern Europe.
-
E.
Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto established by Nazi Germany during World War II, notorious for its extreme overcrowding, starvation, and the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Holocaust resistance event
ⓘ
Jewish resistance ⓘ World War II event ⓘ prisoner revolt ⓘ uprising ⓘ |
| aim |
mass escape from Sobibor extermination camp
ⓘ
overthrow of camp guards ⓘ |
| casualties | many prisoners killed during escape ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy | memorials at former Sobibor site ⓘ |
| commemoratedOn | 14 October ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| date | 1943-10-14 ⓘ |
| describedIn |
historical research on Operation Reinhard camps
ⓘ
survivor testimonies ⓘ |
| followedBy | Aktion Erntefest reprisals in the Lublin district ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance |
evidence of organized resistance in extermination camps
ⓘ
symbol of armed Jewish resistance ⓘ |
| leader |
Alexander Pechersky
ⓘ
Leon Feldhendler ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | Poland ⓘ |
| location |
Sobibor
ⓘ
surface form:
Sobibor extermination camp
|
| method |
attempted seizure of weapons
ⓘ
luring SS officers into workshops and killing them ⓘ mass dash for the perimeter and surrounding forest ⓘ secret planning by prisoner underground ⓘ |
| notableFor |
one of the most significant acts of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust
ⓘ
successful mass breakout from a Nazi extermination camp ⓘ |
| opponent |
German camp guards
ⓘ
Nazi Germany ⓘ SS ⓘ Ukrainian auxiliary guards ⓘ |
| organizedBy |
Jewish prisoners
ⓘ
Soviet Jewish prisoners of war ⓘ |
| partOf |
Holocaust
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| perpetratorsTargeted |
SS officers
ⓘ
camp command staff ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Treblinka uprising
ⓘ
surface form:
Treblinka extermination camp uprising
|
| relatedTo |
Jewish partisan activity
ⓘ
Nazi extermination camps ⓘ Operation Reinhard ⓘ |
| result |
closure of Sobibor extermination camp
ⓘ
destruction of camp facilities by Nazis ⓘ liquidation of Sobibor extermination camp ⓘ mass escape of prisoners ⓘ |
| survivors | dozens of escapees survived the war ⓘ |
| triggered | Nazi decision to dismantle Sobibor extermination camp ⓘ |
| year | 1943 ⓘ |
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: Sobibor extermination camp uprising Description of subject: The Sobibor extermination camp uprising was a 1943 prisoner revolt in the Nazi death camp Sobibor, in which inmates organized a mass escape that led to the camp’s closure and became one of the most significant acts of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sobibor extermination camp organization
this entity surface form:
Sobibor uprising
this entity surface form:
Sobibor extermination camp uprising and escape
this entity surface form:
Jewish resistance in Sobibor extermination camp
this entity surface form:
Sobibor uprising
subject surface form:
Alexander Pechersky