Starobelsk camp
E952338
Starobelsk camp was a Soviet NKVD prisoner-of-war camp in Ukraine, known as one of the main sites where Polish officers were held and later murdered during the Katyn massacre in World War II.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Starobelsk camp canonical | 1 |
| Starobilsk camp | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11895598 — 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: Starobelsk camp Context triple: [Kozelsk camp, relatedTo, Starobelsk camp]
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Kozelsk camp
Kozelsk camp was a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, notorious as one of the main sites where Polish officers were held before being executed in the Katyn massacre.
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B.
Ostashkov camp
Ostashkov camp was a Soviet NKVD prisoner-of-war and labor camp during World War II, notorious as one of the main sites where Polish officers and intelligentsia were detained prior to their execution in the Katyn massacre.
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C.
NKVD Special Camp No. 7 Weesow
NKVD Special Camp No. 7 Weesow was a Soviet-run internment and detention camp in post-World War II Germany used to hold political prisoners, alleged Nazis, and other perceived opponents of Soviet authority.
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D.
NKVD Special Camp No. 5 Ketschendorf
NKVD Special Camp No. 5 Ketschendorf was a post-World War II Soviet internment and detention camp in Germany used by the NKVD to hold political prisoners, alleged Nazis, and other perceived opponents of Soviet authority.
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E.
NKVD Special Camp No. 8 Torgau
NKVD Special Camp No. 8 Torgau was a Soviet-run post-World War II internment and detention camp in Torgau, Germany, used primarily for holding political prisoners and alleged Nazi offenders.
- 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: Starobelsk camp Target entity description: Starobelsk camp was a Soviet NKVD prisoner-of-war camp in Ukraine, known as one of the main sites where Polish officers were held and later murdered during the Katyn massacre in World War II.
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A.
Kozelsk camp
Kozelsk camp was a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, notorious as one of the main sites where Polish officers were held before being executed in the Katyn massacre.
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B.
Ostashkov camp
Ostashkov camp was a Soviet NKVD prisoner-of-war and labor camp during World War II, notorious as one of the main sites where Polish officers and intelligentsia were detained prior to their execution in the Katyn massacre.
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C.
NKVD Special Camp No. 7 Weesow
NKVD Special Camp No. 7 Weesow was a Soviet-run internment and detention camp in post-World War II Germany used to hold political prisoners, alleged Nazis, and other perceived opponents of Soviet authority.
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D.
NKVD Special Camp No. 5 Ketschendorf
NKVD Special Camp No. 5 Ketschendorf was a post-World War II Soviet internment and detention camp in Germany used by the NKVD to hold political prisoners, alleged Nazis, and other perceived opponents of Soviet authority.
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E.
NKVD Special Camp No. 8 Torgau
NKVD Special Camp No. 8 Torgau was a Soviet-run post-World War II internment and detention camp in Torgau, Germany, used primarily for holding political prisoners and alleged Nazi offenders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NKVD camp
ⓘ
World War II site ⓘ prisoner-of-war camp ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| category |
Katyn massacre locations
ⓘ
NKVD camps in the Soviet Union ⓘ
linked to:
NKVD camps
Soviet World War II prisoner-of-war camps ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| endTime | 1940 ⓘ |
| event |
detention of Polish officers after Soviet invasion of Poland
ⓘ
selection and transfer of prisoners for execution ⓘ |
| hasCause |
Soviet invasion of Poland
ⓘ
linked to:
Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland
|
| hasTypeOfInmate |
Polish Army personnel
ⓘ
military officers ⓘ reserve officers ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Stalinist era ⓘ |
| inception | 1939 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Polish
ⓘ
Russian ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Starobilsk
ⓘ
Ukraine ⓘ Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ⓘ
linked to:
Soviet Ukraine
|
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity | Luhansk Oblast ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern European Time ⓘ |
| locatedOn | left bank of the Aidar River ⓘ |
| notableFor |
imprisonment of Polish officers captured in 1939
ⓘ
role in the Katyn massacre ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
NKVD
ⓘ
People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ |
| partOf |
Katyn massacre complex of sites
ⓘ
linked to:
Mednoye memorial complex
Soviet POW camp system ⓘ
linked to:
Gulag system
|
| perpetrator |
NKVD
ⓘ
Soviet security services ⓘ
linked to:
Soviet state security organs
|
| relatedTo |
Katyn massacre
ⓘ
Kozelsk camp ⓘ Ostashkov camp ⓘ |
| securityStatus | high-security camp ⓘ |
| startTime | 1939 ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Polish-Soviet relations studies
ⓘ
historical research on Katyn crime ⓘ |
| usedFor |
detention of Polish prisoners of war
ⓘ
internment of Polish officers ⓘ |
| victim |
Polish intelligentsia
ⓘ
Polish officers ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Starobelsk camp Description of subject: Starobelsk camp was a Soviet NKVD prisoner-of-war camp in Ukraine, known as one of the main sites where Polish officers were held and later murdered during the Katyn massacre in World War II.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Starobelsk camp