Kozelsk camp

E283027

Soviet prisoner-of-war camp military prison camp

Kozelsk camp was a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, notorious as one of the main sites where Polish officers were held before being executed in the Katyn massacre.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Kozelsk camp canonical	1
Starobelsk camp	1

Statements (37)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Soviet prisoner-of-war camp ⓘ military prison camp ⓘ
associatedWithCrime	mass execution of Polish POWs ⓘ
category	Katyn massacre ⓘ Stalingrad prisoner-of-war camp ⓘ surface form: World War II prisoner-of-war camps of the Soviet Union
country	Soviet Union ⓘ
establishedAfter	Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland ⓘ surface form: Soviet invasion of Poland
guardedBy	NKVD ⓘ surface form: NKVD guards
hasHeritageDesignation	site of remembrance of Katyn victims ⓘ
historicalContext	Soviet repression of Polish elites ⓘ
languageOfAdministration	Russian ⓘ
locatedIn	Kaluga Oblast NERFINISHED ⓘ Kozelsk ⓘ Russian SFSR ⓘ western Russia ⓘ
memorializedBy	Katyn war cemetery ⓘ surface form: Katyn memorials and commemorations
notableFor	holding Polish officers prior to the Katyn massacre ⓘ
operatedBy	People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ surface form: NKVD Soviet state security organs ⓘ surface form: Soviet security services
partOf	Soviet POW camp system ⓘ
prisonerNationality	Polish ⓘ
prisonerType	Polish Army officers ⓘ Polish intelligentsia ⓘ Polish police officers ⓘ
relatedEvent	Katyn massacre ⓘ
relatedTo	Ostashkov camp ⓘ Starobelsk camp ⓘ
significance	symbol of Soviet crimes against Poles in World War II ⓘ
startEvent	following the September 1939 campaign in Poland ⓘ
timePeriod	1939–1940 ⓘ
transferDestination	Katyn war cemetery ⓘ surface form: Katyn Forest Katyn war cemetery ⓘ surface form: NKVD execution sites near Smolensk
usedDuring	World War II ⓘ
usedFor	detention of Polish prisoners of war ⓘ internment of Polish officers ⓘ
victimCountry	Second Polish Republic ⓘ
victimGroup	Polish officer corps ⓘ

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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: Kozelsk camp
Description of subject: Kozelsk camp was a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, notorious as one of the main sites where Polish officers were held before being executed in the Katyn massacre.

Referenced by (2)

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

Polish POWs → heldIn → Kozelsk camp ⓘ

this entity surface form: Starobelsk camp