Majdanek
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Majdanek was a Nazi German concentration and extermination camp located near Lublin, Poland, where tens of thousands of Jews and other prisoners were murdered during the Holocaust.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14131 — 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: Majdanek Context triple: [Holocaust, notableCamp, Majdanek]
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A.
AuschwitzBirkenau
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest and most infamous Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, where over a million Jews and other victims were systematically murdered during the Holocaust.
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B.
Treblinka
Treblinka was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
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C.
Sobibor
Sobibor was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust and where a notable prisoner uprising occurred in 1943.
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D.
Chelmno
Chełmno was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where mass killings of Jews and other victims were carried out primarily using gas vans during the Holocaust.
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E.
Belzec
Belzec was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
- 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: Majdanek Target entity description: Majdanek was a Nazi German concentration and extermination camp located near Lublin, Poland, where tens of thousands of Jews and other prisoners were murdered during the Holocaust.
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A.
AuschwitzBirkenau
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest and most infamous Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, where over a million Jews and other victims were systematically murdered during the Holocaust.
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B.
Treblinka
Treblinka was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
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C.
Sobibor
Sobibor was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust and where a notable prisoner uprising occurred in 1943.
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D.
Chelmno
Chełmno was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where mass killings of Jews and other victims were carried out primarily using gas vans during the Holocaust.
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E.
Belzec
Belzec was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Holocaust site
ⓘ
Nazi concentration camp ⓘ Nazi extermination camp ⓘ |
| commemorates |
victims of Nazi terror
ⓘ
victims of the Holocaust ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| endDate | 1944 ⓘ |
| estimatedNumberOfVictims |
over 70,000
ⓘ
tens of thousands ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
barbed wire fences
ⓘ
barracks ⓘ crematoria ⓘ gas chambers ⓘ watchtowers ⓘ |
| hasStatus |
memorial
ⓘ
museum ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | site of remembrance ⓘ |
| liberatedBy | Red Army ⓘ |
| liberationDate | 1944-07-23 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lublin
ⓘ
Lublin Voivodeship ⓘ Poland ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Lublin
ⓘ
surface form:
city of Lublin
|
| memorialType | state museum ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Majdan Tatarski district of Lublin ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Operation Harvest Festival mass shootings in November 1943 ⓘ |
| officialName |
Majdanek
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Konzentrationslager Lublin
|
| operatedBy |
Nazi Germany
ⓘ
SS ⓘ Schutzstaffel (SS) ⓘ
surface form:
Schutzstaffel
|
| partOf |
Final Solution
ⓘ
Nazi camp system ⓘ
surface form:
Nazi concentration camp system
|
| startDate | 1941 ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Holocaust
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| usedFor |
extermination of Jews
ⓘ
forced labor ⓘ imprisonment of Polish civilians ⓘ imprisonment of Roma ⓘ imprisonment of Soviet POWs ⓘ imprisonment of political prisoners ⓘ mass murder ⓘ |
| victimGroup |
Jews
ⓘ
Poles ⓘ Roma ⓘ Soviet prisoners of war ⓘ political prisoners ⓘ prisoners from many European countries ⓘ |
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: Majdanek Description of subject: Majdanek was a Nazi German concentration and extermination camp located near Lublin, Poland, where tens of thousands of Jews and other prisoners were murdered during the Holocaust.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration and extermination camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration camp
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Majdanek State Museum
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Konzentrationslager Lublin
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration and extermination camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration and extermination camp
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State Museum at Majdanek
this entity surface form:
State Museum at Majdanek
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration and extermination camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration and extermination camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek extermination camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration and extermination camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration camp site
this entity surface form:
former Nazi concentration camp at Majdanek
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration camp memorial
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration and extermination camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration and extermination camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration camp complex
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration and extermination camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration camp
this entity surface form:
Majdanek district of Lublin
this entity surface form:
Majdanek concentration camp