St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Oświęcim

E140037

Roman Catholic parish church church building

St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Oświęcim is a Roman Catholic parish church dedicated to the martyr of Auschwitz, serving as a place of worship and remembrance near the former Nazi concentration camp.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Maximilian Kolbe Church	1
Roman Catholic parish of St. Maximilian Kolbe in Oświęcim	1
St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Oświęcim canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1213198 — 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: St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Oświęcim
Context triple: [Oświęcim, hasReligiousBuilding, St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Oświęcim]

A. Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Oświęcim
The Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Oświęcim is a historic Roman Catholic church and one of the town’s principal religious landmarks in southern Poland.
B. St. Mary’s Church in Gdańsk
St. Mary’s Church in Gdańsk is a massive Brick Gothic Roman Catholic basilica, often cited as one of the largest brick churches in the world and a dominant landmark of Gdańsk’s historic skyline.
C. Bełżec memorial and museum
The Bełżec memorial and museum is a commemorative site and educational center in southeastern Poland that preserves the memory of the victims of the Nazi Bełżec extermination camp through exhibitions, documentation, and a large-scale memorial landscape.
D. St. Jacobi Church
St. Jacobi Church is a historic Gothic-style Lutheran church and prominent architectural landmark in the city of Göttingen, Germany.
E. Poznań Cathedral
Poznań Cathedral is one of Poland’s oldest and most important Roman Catholic cathedrals, renowned as a historic burial site of early Polish rulers and a key monument of Gothic and Romanesque architecture.
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: St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Oświęcim
Target entity description: St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Oświęcim is a Roman Catholic parish church dedicated to the martyr of Auschwitz, serving as a place of worship and remembrance near the former Nazi concentration camp.

A. Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Oświęcim
The Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Oświęcim is a historic Roman Catholic church and one of the town’s principal religious landmarks in southern Poland.
B. St. Mary’s Church in Gdańsk
St. Mary’s Church in Gdańsk is a massive Brick Gothic Roman Catholic basilica, often cited as one of the largest brick churches in the world and a dominant landmark of Gdańsk’s historic skyline.
C. Bełżec memorial and museum
The Bełżec memorial and museum is a commemorative site and educational center in southeastern Poland that preserves the memory of the victims of the Nazi Bełżec extermination camp through exhibitions, documentation, and a large-scale memorial landscape.
D. St. Jacobi Church
St. Jacobi Church is a historic Gothic-style Lutheran church and prominent architectural landmark in the city of Göttingen, Germany.
E. Poznań Cathedral
Poznań Cathedral is one of Poland’s oldest and most important Roman Catholic cathedrals, renowned as a historic burial site of early Polish rulers and a key monument of Gothic and Romanesque architecture.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (27)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Roman Catholic parish church ⓘ church building ⓘ
associatedWith	Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial culture ⓘ
category	Churches in Oświęcim ⓘ Memorials to victims of Nazism in Poland ⓘ Roman Catholic churches in Lesser Poland Voivodeship ⓘ
commemorates	martyrs of Auschwitz ⓘ victims of Nazi persecution ⓘ victims of the Holocaust ⓘ
country	Poland ⓘ
dedicatedTo	Saint Maximilian Kolbe ⓘ linked to: Maximilian Kolbe
denomination	Latin Church ⓘ linked to: Latin Church worldwide
diocese	Roman Catholic Diocese of Bielsko-Żywiec ⓘ
function	place of remembrance ⓘ place of worship ⓘ
hasPatronSaint	Saint Maximilian Kolbe ⓘ linked to: Maximilian Kolbe
heritage	Catholic memorial site near Auschwitz ⓘ
languageOfLiturgy	Latin ⓘ Polish ⓘ
locatedIn	Lesser Poland Voivodeship ⓘ Oświęcim ⓘ Poland ⓘ
namedAfter	Maximilian Kolbe ⓘ
parish	Roman Catholic parish of St. Maximilian Kolbe in Oświęcim ⓘ linked to: St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Oświęcim
proximityTo	former Auschwitz concentration camp ⓘ
religion	Roman Catholicism ⓘ
rite	Roman Rite ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Oświęcim → hasReligiousBuilding → St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Oświęcim ⓘ

St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Oświęcim → parish → Roman Catholic parish of St. Maximilian Kolbe in Oświęcim ⓘ

linked to: St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Oświęcim

Wedding → contains → Maximilian Kolbe Church ⓘ

subject linked to: Wedding locality