SS Donau
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SS Donau was a German transport ship used by the Nazis during World War II to deport Norwegian Jews to concentration and extermination camps.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SS Donau canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11358390 — 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: SS Donau Context triple: [Norwegian Jews, deportedOn, SS Donau]
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A.
SS Teutonic
SS Teutonic was a late 19th-century British ocean liner notable for being one of the first modern steamships built for both passenger service and potential auxiliary naval use.
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B.
SS Dresden
SS Dresden was a German passenger steamer best known as the ship from which engineer Rudolf Diesel mysteriously disappeared in 1913.
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C.
Dukenburg
Dukenburg is a residential district in the southwest of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, known for its post-war urban planning and local railway connectivity.
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D.
MTU Friedrichshafen
MTU Friedrichshafen is a German company specializing in the development and production of high-performance diesel engines and propulsion systems for industrial, marine, and defense applications.
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E.
SS Cap Arcona
SS Cap Arcona was a German luxury ocean liner later used by the Nazis as a transport ship during World War II, most infamously when it was sunk in 1945 with thousands of concentration camp prisoners aboard.
- 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: SS Donau Target entity description: SS Donau was a German transport ship used by the Nazis during World War II to deport Norwegian Jews to concentration and extermination camps.
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A.
SS Teutonic
SS Teutonic was a late 19th-century British ocean liner notable for being one of the first modern steamships built for both passenger service and potential auxiliary naval use.
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B.
SS Dresden
SS Dresden was a German passenger steamer best known as the ship from which engineer Rudolf Diesel mysteriously disappeared in 1913.
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C.
Dukenburg
Dukenburg is a residential district in the southwest of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, known for its post-war urban planning and local railway connectivity.
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D.
MTU Friedrichshafen
MTU Friedrichshafen is a German company specializing in the development and production of high-performance diesel engines and propulsion systems for industrial, marine, and defense applications.
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E.
SS Cap Arcona
SS Cap Arcona was a German luxury ocean liner later used by the Nazis as a transport ship during World War II, most infamously when it was sunk in 1945 with thousands of concentration camp prisoners aboard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German ship
ⓘ
passenger ship ⓘ ship ⓘ transport ship ⓘ |
| arrivalPortOn1942-11-30 | Stettin ⓘ |
| associatedEvent |
Holocaust in Norway
ⓘ
deportation of Norwegian Jews ⓘ |
| category |
Holocaust trains
ⓘ
Maritime incidents in World War II ⓘ World War II passenger ships of Germany ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistry | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfMajorDeportation | 1942-11-26 ⓘ |
| departurePortOn1942-11-26 | Oslo ⓘ |
| deportedFrom |
Norway
ⓘ
Oslo ⓘ |
| deportedTo |
Auschwitz concentration camp
ⓘ
linked to:
AuschwitzBirkenau
Nazi concentration camps ⓘ
linked to:
Nazi camp system
Stettin ⓘ |
| fate | sunk ⓘ |
| languageOfName | German ⓘ |
| memorializedAs | symbol of the deportation of Norwegian Jews ⓘ |
| memorializedIn | Holocaust memorials in Norway ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Danube River
ⓘ
linked to:
Danube
|
| notableFor |
largest single deportation of Norwegian Jews
ⓘ
role in the Holocaust ⓘ |
| numberOfDeporteesOn1942-11-26 | approximately 532 ⓘ |
| numberOfJewishDeporteesOn1942-11-26 | approximately 532 Norwegian Jews ⓘ |
| operatedInWaters |
Baltic Sea
ⓘ
North Sea ⓘ |
| operator | Deutsche Afrika-Linien ⓘ |
| perpetratorSide | Axis powers ⓘ |
| portOfRegistry | Hamburg ⓘ |
| sinkingContext |
World War II naval operations
ⓘ
linked to:
World War II naval battles
|
| sinkingCountry | Norway ⓘ |
| sinkingLocation | near Oslofjord ⓘ |
| subsequentTransportRoute | Stettin to Auschwitz by train ⓘ |
| sunkBy | Allied forces ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Gestapo
ⓘ
Nazi Germany ⓘ SS ⓘ |
| usedFor |
deportation of Jews from Norway
ⓘ
transport of prisoners ⓘ |
| victimGroup |
Jewish children
ⓘ
Jewish men ⓘ Jewish women ⓘ Norwegian Jews ⓘ |
| victimSide | Norwegian civilians ⓘ |
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: SS Donau Description of subject: SS Donau was a German transport ship used by the Nazis during World War II to deport Norwegian Jews to concentration and extermination camps.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.