Lubyanka Square, Moscow

E178334

geographical location public square

Lubyanka Square, Moscow is a central Moscow square historically known as the site of Russia’s main security service headquarters and the former KGB prison.

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All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
Lubyanka Square	31
Lubyanka Square, Moscow canonical	2
Lubyanka Square, Moscow, Russia	2
Lubyanka Square 2	1
Okhotny Ryad (State Duma building)	1
Лубянская площадь, Москва	1
Площадь Лубянка (Russian)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1552955 — 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: Lubyanka Square, Moscow
Context triple: [FSB, headquartersLocation, Lubyanka Square, Moscow]

A. Theatre Square, Moscow
Theatre Square in Moscow is a historic central square renowned as a cultural hub, surrounded by landmark institutions including the Bolshoi Theatre.
B. Red Square
Red Square is Moscow’s most famous historic plaza, known as a symbolic center of Russia and a UNESCO World Heritage site surrounded by landmarks like the Kremlin and Saint Basil’s Cathedral.
C. Suvorov Square
Suvorov Square is a historic public square in Saint Petersburg, Russia, known for its prominent monument to General Alexander Suvorov and its location near major Neva River embankments and cultural landmarks.
D. Borovitskaya Square
Borovitskaya Square is a central Moscow square located by the Kremlin, serving as a key traffic and historical junction near several important cultural and governmental sites.
E. Lubyanka Building
The Lubyanka Building is a historic Moscow structure infamous as the main Soviet-era security service complex, associated with political repression and state surveillance.
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: Lubyanka Square, Moscow
Target entity description: Lubyanka Square, Moscow is a central Moscow square historically known as the site of Russia’s main security service headquarters and the former KGB prison.

A. Theatre Square, Moscow
Theatre Square in Moscow is a historic central square renowned as a cultural hub, surrounded by landmark institutions including the Bolshoi Theatre.
B. Red Square
Red Square is Moscow’s most famous historic plaza, known as a symbolic center of Russia and a UNESCO World Heritage site surrounded by landmarks like the Kremlin and Saint Basil’s Cathedral.
C. Suvorov Square
Suvorov Square is a historic public square in Saint Petersburg, Russia, known for its prominent monument to General Alexander Suvorov and its location near major Neva River embankments and cultural landmarks.
D. Borovitskaya Square
Borovitskaya Square is a central Moscow square located by the Kremlin, serving as a key traffic and historical junction near several important cultural and governmental sites.
E. Lubyanka Building
The Lubyanka Building is a historic Moscow structure infamous as the main Soviet-era security service complex, associated with political repression and state surveillance.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geographical location ⓘ public square ⓘ
appearsIn	films and documentaries about the KGB ⓘ literature about Soviet security services ⓘ
coordinateLocation	55.759°N 37.627°E ⓘ
country	Russia ⓘ
culturalMeaning	iconic location in Russian political history ⓘ symbol of Soviet-era political repression ⓘ
eventAssociatedWith	removal of Felix Dzerzhinsky statue in 1991 ⓘ
hasLandmark	Central Children’s Store on Lubyanka ⓘ Lubyanka Building ⓘ
hasMapFeature	central node in Moscow road network ⓘ
hasMonumentHistory	site of a statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky until 1991 ⓘ
hasNameInLanguage	Площадь Лубянка (Russian) ⓘ linked to: Lubyanka Square, Moscow
hasNearbyBuilding	former headquarters of the KGB ⓘ headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB) ⓘ
hasNearbyInstitution	Central Children’s Store (former Detsky Mir) ⓘ offices of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation ⓘ
hasNearbyReligiousBuilding	Church of St. Nicholas in Klenniki ⓘ
hasNearbySquare	Slavyanskaya Square ⓘ Teatralnaya Square ⓘ
hasPublicTransportConnection	Lubyanka metro station ⓘ Ploshchad Revolyutsii metro station ⓘ
historicalFunction	center of Soviet state security operations ⓘ site of political repression associations in the Soviet era ⓘ
locatedIn	Moscow ⓘ
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory	Central Administrative Okrug of Moscow ⓘ linked to: Central Administrative Okrug
locatedInNeighborhood	Tverskoy District ⓘ linked to: Tverskoy District, Moscow
locatedNear	Kitay-Gorod ⓘ linked to: Kitay-gorod Red Square ⓘ
namedAfter	Lubyanka Street ⓘ
notableFor	former KGB prison ⓘ headquarters of Soviet and Russian state security services ⓘ
partOf	European Russia ⓘ historic center of Moscow ⓘ
politicallyAssociatedWith	Cheka ⓘ FSB ⓘ KGB ⓘ NKVD ⓘ
streetJunctionOf	Kuznetsky Most Street ⓘ Lubyanka Street ⓘ Myasnitskaya Street ⓘ Nikolskaya Street ⓘ
timeZone	Moscow Time (UTC+3) ⓘ linked to: Moscow Time
touristAttractionStatus	site of political and historical tourism ⓘ
urbanPlanningRole	major traffic hub in central Moscow ⓘ

How these facts were elicited