Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

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former prison genocide museum memorial museum

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a former Khmer Rouge prison and torture center in Phnom Penh that now serves as a memorial and museum documenting the Cambodian genocide.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum canonical	2
S-21	1
S-21 Tuol Sleng prison	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2243482 — 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: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
Context triple: [Phnom Penh, contains, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum]

A. War Remnants Museum
The War Remnants Museum is a prominent museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, documenting the Vietnam War and its impacts through powerful exhibits and historical artifacts.
B. Ho Chi Minh Museum
The Ho Chi Minh Museum is a major museum in Hanoi dedicated to the life, legacy, and revolutionary activities of Vietnam’s former president Ho Chi Minh.
C. House of Terror Museum
The House of Terror Museum is a Budapest institution documenting the crimes and oppressive regimes of Hungary’s 20th-century fascist and communist dictatorships, housed in a former secret police headquarters.
D. Quba Genocide Memorial Complex
The Quba Genocide Memorial Complex is a memorial and museum in Azerbaijan dedicated to commemorating and documenting the mass killings of Azerbaijanis in the early 20th century.
E. Independence Palace
Independence Palace is a historic landmark in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, best known as the former presidential residence of South Vietnam and the site marking the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.
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: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
Target entity description: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a former Khmer Rouge prison and torture center in Phnom Penh that now serves as a memorial and museum documenting the Cambodian genocide.

A. War Remnants Museum
The War Remnants Museum is a prominent museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, documenting the Vietnam War and its impacts through powerful exhibits and historical artifacts.
B. Ho Chi Minh Museum
The Ho Chi Minh Museum is a major museum in Hanoi dedicated to the life, legacy, and revolutionary activities of Vietnam’s former president Ho Chi Minh.
C. House of Terror Museum
The House of Terror Museum is a Budapest institution documenting the crimes and oppressive regimes of Hungary’s 20th-century fascist and communist dictatorships, housed in a former secret police headquarters.
D. Quba Genocide Memorial Complex
The Quba Genocide Memorial Complex is a memorial and museum in Azerbaijan dedicated to commemorating and documenting the mass killings of Azerbaijanis in the early 20th century.
E. Independence Palace
Independence Palace is a historic landmark in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, best known as the former presidential residence of South Vietnam and the site marking the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	former prison ⓘ genocide museum ⓘ memorial ⓘ museum ⓘ
associatedWithEvent	Cambodian genocide ⓘ Democratic Kampuchea ⓘ surface form: Democratic Kampuchea period
controlledBy	Khmer Rouge ⓘ
conversionDateApprox	1975 ⓘ
convertedBy	Khmer Rouge ⓘ
country	Cambodia ⓘ
endDateAsPrison	1979 ⓘ
exhibits	Khmer Rouge documents ⓘ paintings by survivors ⓘ photographs of prisoners ⓘ torture instruments ⓘ victim testimonies ⓘ
formerName	Security Prison 21 ⓘ
functionToday	memorial ⓘ museum ⓘ
governedBy	Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia ⓘ
hasBuildingType	concrete block structures ⓘ former school buildings ⓘ
hasFeature	barbed wire on balconies ⓘ metal bed frames used for torture ⓘ small brick cells ⓘ wooden cells ⓘ
heritageStatus	important site of memory in Cambodia ⓘ
KhmerName	សារមន្ទីរឧក្រិដ្ឋកម្មប្រល័យពូជសាសន៍ទួលស្លែង ⓘ
languageOfName	Khmer ⓘ
locatedIn	Chamkar Mon district ⓘ surface form: Chamkar Mon District Phnom Penh ⓘ urban area of Phnom Penh ⓘ
memorializes	victims of the Cambodian genocide ⓘ victims of the Khmer Rouge ⓘ
notableSurvivor	Bou Meng ⓘ Chum Mey ⓘ Vann Nath ⓘ
numberOfPrisonersEstimate	14000 ⓘ
numberOfSurvivorsKnown	fewer than 20 ⓘ
openToPublic	yes ⓘ
operatedDuring	1975–1979 ⓘ
originalFunction	secondary school ⓘ
originalName	Tuol Svay Prey High School ⓘ
partOf	Khmer Rouge security apparatus ⓘ
shortName	Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: S-21
startDateAsPrison	1975 ⓘ
tourismType	dark tourism site ⓘ
usedAs	execution processing center ⓘ interrogation center ⓘ security prison ⓘ torture center ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Phnom Penh → contains → Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum ⓘ

Democratic Kampuchea → notableSite → Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: S-21 Tuol Sleng prison

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum → shortName → Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: S-21

Choeung Ek genocide center → associatedWith → Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum ⓘ

subject surface form: Choeung Ek Genocide Center

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