From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival
E446902
From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival is a Holocaust memoir by Sobibor death camp survivor Thomas Blatt, recounting his experiences before, during, and after the camp uprising.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival canonical | 3 |
| Sobibor: The Forgotten Revolt | 2 |
| From the Ashes of Sobibor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4488543 — 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: From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival Context triple: [Thomas Blatt, wrote, From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival]
-
A.
Sobibor: A History of a Nazi Death Camp
"Sobibor: A History of a Nazi Death Camp" is a historical study that reconstructs the operation, atrocities, and prisoner experiences of the Sobibor extermination camp during the Holocaust.
-
B.
Survival in Auschwitz
Survival in Auschwitz is the English-language title of Primo Levi’s seminal Holocaust memoir recounting his experiences and reflections as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
-
C.
Experiences in a Concentration Camp
"Experiences in a Concentration Camp" is the autobiographical first part of Viktor Frankl’s *Man’s Search for Meaning*, recounting his time in Nazi concentration camps and the psychological insights he drew from that suffering.
-
D.
Schindler's List (novel)
Schindler's List is a historical novel by Thomas Keneally that recounts how German industrialist Oskar Schindler saved more than a thousand Jews from the Holocaust.
-
E.
A Survivor from Warsaw
A Survivor from Warsaw is a dramatic cantata by Arnold Schoenberg that powerfully depicts a Holocaust survivor’s harrowing memories through spoken narration, chorus, and orchestra.
- 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: From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival Target entity description: From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival is a Holocaust memoir by Sobibor death camp survivor Thomas Blatt, recounting his experiences before, during, and after the camp uprising.
-
A.
Sobibor: A History of a Nazi Death Camp
"Sobibor: A History of a Nazi Death Camp" is a historical study that reconstructs the operation, atrocities, and prisoner experiences of the Sobibor extermination camp during the Holocaust.
-
B.
Survival in Auschwitz
Survival in Auschwitz is the English-language title of Primo Levi’s seminal Holocaust memoir recounting his experiences and reflections as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
-
C.
Experiences in a Concentration Camp
"Experiences in a Concentration Camp" is the autobiographical first part of Viktor Frankl’s *Man’s Search for Meaning*, recounting his time in Nazi concentration camps and the psychological insights he drew from that suffering.
-
D.
Schindler's List (novel)
Schindler's List is a historical novel by Thomas Keneally that recounts how German industrialist Oskar Schindler saved more than a thousand Jews from the Holocaust.
-
E.
A Survivor from Warsaw
A Survivor from Warsaw is a dramatic cantata by Arnold Schoenberg that powerfully depicts a Holocaust survivor’s harrowing memories through spoken narration, chorus, and orchestra.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Holocaust memoir
ⓘ
book ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ |
| about |
Jewish resistance during the Holocaust
ⓘ
Nazi death camps ⓘ life before the Holocaust ⓘ postwar life of Holocaust survivors ⓘ survival in extermination camps ⓘ |
| author | Thomas Blatt ⓘ |
| describes |
functioning of an extermination camp
ⓘ
relations among prisoners and guards ⓘ strategies for survival in the camp ⓘ transport of Jews to Sobibor ⓘ |
| educationalUse |
Holocaust studies
ⓘ
Jewish studies ⓘ human rights education ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
aftermath of the uprising
ⓘ
camp inmates’ daily life ⓘ escape from Sobibor ⓘ personal testimony ⓘ planning of the Sobibor revolt ⓘ |
| genre | memoir ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
memory of the Holocaust
ⓘ
resistance ⓘ survival ⓘ testimony against denial ⓘ trauma and aftermath ⓘ |
| historicalEventDescribed |
Holocaust in Poland
ⓘ
Sobibor uprising ⓘ
linked to:
Sobibor extermination camp uprising
|
| intendedAudience |
readers interested in Holocaust history
ⓘ
students of World War II ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | autobiographical narrative ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Holocaust
ⓘ
Sobibor extermination camp ⓘ
linked to:
Sobibor
Sobibor uprising ⓘ
linked to:
Sobibor extermination camp uprising
|
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| protagonist | Thomas Blatt ⓘ |
| setting |
Sobibor extermination camp
ⓘ
linked to:
Sobibor
postwar period ⓘ prewar Poland ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed |
Nazi occupation of Poland
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
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: From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival Description of subject: From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival is a Holocaust memoir by Sobibor death camp survivor Thomas Blatt, recounting his experiences before, during, and after the camp uprising.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival
linked to: From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival
linked to: From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival