Belzec
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Belzec was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Belzec extermination camp | 23 |
| Bełżec extermination camp | 6 |
| Belzec canonical | 3 |
| Bełżec, Poland | 2 |
| Bełżec | 1 |
| Bełżec extermination camp operations | 1 |
| Operation Reinhard | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14129 — 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: Belzec Context triple: [Holocaust, notableCamp, Belzec]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Wannsee
Wannsee is a lakeside district in southwestern Berlin, Germany, known for its villa colonies, recreational waterfront, and as the site of the infamous 1942 Wannsee Conference.
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E.
Einsatzgruppen
The Einsatzgruppen were Nazi paramilitary death squads responsible for mass shootings and genocidal atrocities, particularly against Jews, in Eastern Europe during World War II.
- 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: Belzec Target entity description: Belzec was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Wannsee
Wannsee is a lakeside district in southwestern Berlin, Germany, known for its villa colonies, recreational waterfront, and as the site of the infamous 1942 Wannsee Conference.
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E.
Einsatzgruppen
The Einsatzgruppen were Nazi paramilitary death squads responsible for mass shootings and genocidal atrocities, particularly against Jews, in Eastern Europe during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Holocaust site
ⓘ
Nazi German extermination camp ⓘ |
| category |
Holocaust in Poland
ⓘ
linked to:
Holocaust
Nazi war crimes in Poland ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1941-11 ⓘ |
| country | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| coverUpActions |
area ploughed and planted with trees
ⓘ
bodies exhumed and burned ⓘ camp buildings dismantled ⓘ |
| demolished | 1943 ⓘ |
| endDate | 1943-06 ⓘ |
| estimatedNumberOfVictims |
approximately 430000
ⓘ
between 430000 and 500000 ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance |
one of the first stationary extermination camps
ⓘ
site of mass murder during the Holocaust ⓘ |
| hasMemorial | Bełżec memorial and museum ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerpetrator |
Christian Wirth
ⓘ
Gottlieb Hering ⓘ
linked to:
Otto Hofmann
Josef Oberhauser ⓘ Lorenz Hackenholt ⓘ SS-Scharführer Heinrich Gley ⓘ |
| hasSurvivors | very few known survivors ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Polish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
General Government
ⓘ
Lublin District ⓘ
linked to:
District of Lublin
occupied Poland ⓘ southeastern Poland ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Bełżec village ⓘ |
| memorialManagedBy |
Majdanek State Museum
ⓘ
linked to:
Majdanek
|
| memorialOpened | 2004 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | nearby village of Bełżec ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Reinhard program authorities
ⓘ
SS ⓘ SS-Totenkopfverbände ⓘ
linked to:
Schutzstaffel (SS)
|
| partOf |
Operation Reinhard
ⓘ
network of Operation Reinhard camps ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Chełmno extermination camp
ⓘ
linked to:
Chelmno
|
| purpose |
extermination of Jews
ⓘ
implementation of the Final Solution ⓘ |
| relatedCamp |
Sobibor
ⓘ
Treblinka extermination camp ⓘ
linked to:
Treblinka
|
| startDate | 1942-03-17 ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
carbon monoxide poisoning
ⓘ
gas chambers ⓘ |
| victimGroup |
Jews
ⓘ
Poles ⓘ Roma ⓘ Soviet POWs ⓘ |
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: Belzec Description of subject: Belzec was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
SS-Scharführer Heinrich Gley
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SS-Scharführer Heinrich Gley
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subject linked to:
Andrzej Sołyga
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