Mauthausen concentration camp
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Mauthausen concentration camp was a notorious Nazi concentration and forced-labor camp in Austria, infamous for its brutal conditions, high mortality rate, and role in the Holocaust.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mauthausen concentration camp canonical | 12 |
| Konzentrationslager Mauthausen | 1 |
| Mauthausen Memorial | 1 |
| Mauthausen concentration camp complex | 1 |
| Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1004074 — 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: Mauthausen concentration camp Context triple: [Auschwitz death marches, destination, Mauthausen concentration camp]
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A.
Dachau
Dachau was one of Nazi Germany’s first and most infamous concentration camps, serving as a model for the camp system and a site of widespread persecution, forced labor, and mass murder during the Holocaust.
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B.
Gross-Rosen concentration camp
Gross-Rosen concentration camp was a Nazi German concentration and forced-labor camp in occupied Poland, notorious for its brutal conditions and high mortality among prisoners during World War II.
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C.
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp was a Nazi forced labor camp in Germany where prisoners were brutally exploited to build V-2 rockets in underground tunnels during World War II.
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D.
Theresienstadt concentration camp
Theresienstadt concentration camp was a Nazi ghetto-labor camp in occupied Czechoslovakia, used both as a transit point to extermination camps and as a propaganda “model” camp to deceive the outside world about the Holocaust.
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E.
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.
- 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: Mauthausen concentration camp Target entity description: Mauthausen concentration camp was a notorious Nazi concentration and forced-labor camp in Austria, infamous for its brutal conditions, high mortality rate, and role in the Holocaust.
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A.
Dachau
Dachau was one of Nazi Germany’s first and most infamous concentration camps, serving as a model for the camp system and a site of widespread persecution, forced labor, and mass murder during the Holocaust.
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B.
Gross-Rosen concentration camp
Gross-Rosen concentration camp was a Nazi German concentration and forced-labor camp in occupied Poland, notorious for its brutal conditions and high mortality among prisoners during World War II.
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C.
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp was a Nazi forced labor camp in Germany where prisoners were brutally exploited to build V-2 rockets in underground tunnels during World War II.
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D.
Theresienstadt concentration camp
Theresienstadt concentration camp was a Nazi ghetto-labor camp in occupied Czechoslovakia, used both as a transit point to extermination camps and as a propaganda “model” camp to deceive the outside world about the Holocaust.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nazi concentration camp
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forced-labor camp ⓘ |
| classification | Grade III camp ⓘ |
| classificationMeaning | camp for the most heavily accused political opponents ⓘ |
| constructionBegan | August 1938 ⓘ |
| controlledBy |
Nazi Germany
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surface form:
Nazi regime
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| country | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| currentUse |
memorial site
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museum ⓘ |
| endDate | May 1945 ⓘ |
| hasCrematorium | yes ⓘ |
| hasGasChamber | yes ⓘ |
| hasMemorial |
Mauthausen concentration camp
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Mauthausen Memorial
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| hasSubcamp |
Ebensee subcamp
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Gusen I ⓘ Gusen II ⓘ Gusen III ⓘ Gusen concentration camp ⓘ Linz III subcamp ⓘ Melk subcamp ⓘ Steyr-Münichholz subcamp ⓘ |
| languageOfName | German ⓘ |
| liberatedBy |
11th Armored Division
ⓘ
United States Army ⓘ |
| liberatedOn | 5 May 1945 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Austria
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Upper Austria ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Mauthausen concentration camp
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Konzentrationslager Mauthausen
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| near | town of Mauthausen ⓘ |
| notableAtrocity |
mass killings by shooting
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medical neglect and abuse ⓘ murders by forced labor in quarry ⓘ starvation of prisoners ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
Stairs of Death
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Stone quarry ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
SS
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Schutzstaffel (SS) ⓘ
surface form:
Schutzstaffel
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| partOf |
Holocaust
ⓘ
Nazi concentration camp system ⓘ |
| perpetratorTrial | Mauthausen-Gusen camp trials ⓘ |
| perpetratorTrialHeldBy |
U.S. General Military Government Court
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surface form:
United States military tribunals
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| prisonerCountEstimate | around 190,000 prisoners passed through ⓘ |
| startDate | 1938 ⓘ |
| usedFor |
extermination through labor
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forced labor ⓘ imprisonment of Jews ⓘ imprisonment of Roma and Sinti ⓘ imprisonment of Soviet POWs ⓘ imprisonment of Spanish Republicans ⓘ imprisonment of political prisoners ⓘ imprisonment of prisoners of war ⓘ political repression ⓘ |
| victimCountEstimate | between 90,000 and 100,000 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Mauthausen concentration camp Description of subject: Mauthausen concentration camp was a notorious Nazi concentration and forced-labor camp in Austria, infamous for its brutal conditions, high mortality rate, and role in the Holocaust.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Mauthausen concentration camp
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hasMemorial
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Mauthausen concentration camp
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Mauthausen Memorial
Mauthausen concentration camp
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nativeName
→
Mauthausen concentration camp
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Konzentrationslager Mauthausen
this entity surface form:
Mauthausen concentration camp complex
this entity surface form:
Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex