Moabit Prison
E511044
Moabit Prison was a notorious Berlin detention facility used by various German regimes, including the Nazis, to hold political prisoners and other inmates.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Moabit Prison canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5315542 — 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: Moabit Prison Context triple: [Ernst Thälmann, placeOfDetention, Moabit Prison]
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A.
Lincoln Prison
Lincoln Prison is a correctional facility located in the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire, England.
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B.
Vincennes Prison
Vincennes Prison was a notorious French state prison and fortress near Paris, historically used to detain political prisoners and notable figures such as Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau.
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C.
Tegel Prison
Tegel Prison is a Berlin correctional facility historically known for holding political prisoners during the Nazi era, including theologian and resistance member Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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D.
San Quentin State Prison
San Quentin State Prison is California’s oldest and most notorious maximum-security prison, located on the shores of San Francisco Bay and known for housing the state’s death row for male inmates.
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E.
Ohio State Reformatory
The Ohio State Reformatory is a historic former prison in Mansfield, Ohio, best known for serving as the primary filming location of the acclaimed film "The Shawshank Redemption."
- 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: Moabit Prison Target entity description: Moabit Prison was a notorious Berlin detention facility used by various German regimes, including the Nazis, to hold political prisoners and other inmates.
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A.
Lincoln Prison
Lincoln Prison is a correctional facility located in the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire, England.
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B.
Vincennes Prison
Vincennes Prison was a notorious French state prison and fortress near Paris, historically used to detain political prisoners and notable figures such as Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau.
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C.
Tegel Prison
Tegel Prison is a Berlin correctional facility historically known for holding political prisoners during the Nazi era, including theologian and resistance member Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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D.
San Quentin State Prison
San Quentin State Prison is California’s oldest and most notorious maximum-security prison, located on the shores of San Francisco Bay and known for housing the state’s death row for male inmates.
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E.
Ohio State Reformatory
The Ohio State Reformatory is a historic former prison in Mansfield, Ohio, best known for serving as the primary filming location of the acclaimed film "The Shawshank Redemption."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
detention facility
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prison ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Berlin history
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German political history ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
Nazi political repression
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persecution of anti-Nazi resistance ⓘ |
| country | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
incarceration
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pre-trial holding facility ⓘ |
| hasGermanName | "Gefängnis Moabit" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInmateType |
common criminals
ⓘ
foreign prisoners ⓘ political prisoners ⓘ resistance fighters ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
19th century
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20th century ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Berlin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Moabit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Borough of Mitte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod |
East Germany
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Federal Republic of Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ German Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Kingdom of Prussia NERFINISHED ⓘ Nazi Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ Weimar Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ West Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Berlin-Tiergarten area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spree River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detention of political dissidents
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detention of resistance members ⓘ harsh conditions ⓘ use by multiple German regimes ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Berlin Senate for Justice
NERFINISHED
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East German justice authorities NERFINISHED ⓘ German judicial authorities ⓘ Nazi judicial authorities ⓘ Prussian Ministry of Justice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Berlin justice system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy |
East German authorities
NERFINISHED
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German Empire authorities NERFINISHED ⓘ Gestapo NERFINISHED ⓘ Nazi regime NERFINISHED ⓘ Prussian authorities NERFINISHED ⓘ Weimar Republic authorities NERFINISHED ⓘ West Berlin authorities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
detention of criminal offenders
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detention of political prisoners ⓘ interrogation of prisoners ⓘ pre-trial detention ⓘ |
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: Moabit Prison Description of subject: Moabit Prison was a notorious Berlin detention facility used by various German regimes, including the Nazis, to hold political prisoners and other inmates.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Moabit