Bornholmer Strasse
E169538
Bornholmer Strasse is a major street and former border crossing in Berlin, Germany, known as the site where the Berlin Wall first opened on 9 November 1989.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bornholmer Straße | 6 |
| Bornholmer Strasse canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1439347 — 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: Bornholmer Strasse Context triple: [Bornholmer Strasse crossing, locatedIn, Bornholmer Strasse]
-
A.
Scharnweberstraße
Scharnweberstraße is a station on Berlin’s U6 U-Bahn line serving the Reinickendorf district in the north of the city.
-
B.
Schwartzkopffstraße
Schwartzkopffstraße is a Berlin U-Bahn station on the U6 line located in the central district of the city.
-
C.
Holzhauser Straße
Holzhauser Straße is a station on Berlin’s U6 U-Bahn line serving the Reinickendorf district in the north of the city.
-
D.
Paradestraße
Paradestraße is a Berlin U-Bahn station on the north–south route in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district, known for serving the U6 line.
-
E.
Friedrichstraße
Friedrichstraße is a major central Berlin transport hub and historic thoroughfare known for its shopping, cultural venues, and role as a former border crossing during the Cold War.
- 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: Bornholmer Strasse Target entity description: Bornholmer Strasse is a major street and former border crossing in Berlin, Germany, known as the site where the Berlin Wall first opened on 9 November 1989.
-
A.
Scharnweberstraße
Scharnweberstraße is a station on Berlin’s U6 U-Bahn line serving the Reinickendorf district in the north of the city.
-
B.
Schwartzkopffstraße
Schwartzkopffstraße is a Berlin U-Bahn station on the U6 line located in the central district of the city.
-
C.
Holzhauser Straße
Holzhauser Straße is a station on Berlin’s U6 U-Bahn line serving the Reinickendorf district in the north of the city.
-
D.
Paradestraße
Paradestraße is a Berlin U-Bahn station on the north–south route in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district, known for serving the U6 line.
-
E.
Friedrichstraße
Friedrichstraße is a major central Berlin transport hub and historic thoroughfare known for its shopping, cultural venues, and role as a former border crossing during the Cold War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former border crossing
ⓘ
street ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
unified Germany
ⓘ
surface form:
German reunification
fall of the Berlin Wall ⓘ |
| borderBetween |
East Berlin
ⓘ
West Berlin ⓘ |
| borderCrossingType |
checkpoint for pedestrians
ⓘ
checkpoint for vehicles ⓘ |
| city | Berlin ⓘ |
| connects |
East Berlin
ⓘ
surface form:
former East Berlin
former West Berlin ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| crosses |
Berlin Wall former border line
ⓘ
Bösebrücke ⓘ |
| event | first border crossing of the Berlin Wall to open in 1989 ⓘ |
| formerStatus | controlled border crossing ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Berlin Wall locations
ⓘ
Germany–East Germany border crossings ⓘ Streets in Berlin ⓘ |
| hasCommemoration |
information boards about the Berlin Wall
ⓘ
memorials to the peaceful revolution of 1989 ⓘ |
| hasNearbyStation |
Bornholmer Strasse S-Bahn station
ⓘ
surface form:
Bornholmer Straße station
|
| hasStructure | Bösebrücke ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Cold War ⓘ |
| knownFor | site where the Berlin Wall first opened on 9 November 1989 ⓘ |
| languageOfName | German ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Berlin
ⓘ
borough of Mitte ⓘ Pankow ⓘ
surface form:
borough of Pankow
|
| namedAfter | Bornholm ⓘ |
| openingEventDate | 9 November 1989 ⓘ |
| partOf |
inner German border crossings in Berlin
ⓘ
road network of Berlin ⓘ |
| status | open street ⓘ |
| transportType | urban arterial road ⓘ |
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: Bornholmer Strasse Description of subject: Bornholmer Strasse is a major street and former border crossing in Berlin, Germany, known as the site where the Berlin Wall first opened on 9 November 1989.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bornholmer Straße
this entity surface form:
Bornholmer Straße
this entity surface form:
Bornholmer Straße
this entity surface form:
Bornholmer Straße
this entity surface form:
Bornholmer Straße
this entity surface form:
Bornholmer Straße