Tränenpalast
E361580
Tränenpalast is a former border crossing hall at Berlin’s Friedrichstraße station, now a museum documenting the history of German division and the Cold War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tränenpalast canonical | 3 |
| Palace of Tears | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3478193 — 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: Tränenpalast Context triple: [Friedrichstraße, hasPart, Tränenpalast]
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A.
Am Hof
Am Hof is a historic square in Vienna’s Innere Stadt district, known for its medieval origins, notable architecture, and role as a former center of civic and religious life.
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B.
Hexentanzplatz
Hexentanzplatz is a famous plateau and tourist spot in the Harz Mountains of Germany, known for its dramatic views, folklore about witches, and Walpurgis Night celebrations.
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C.
Le Palais de Cristal
Le Palais de Cristal is the original French title of George Balanchine’s neoclassical ballet better known in English as Symphony in C.
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D.
Der große Bellheim
Der große Bellheim is a German television miniseries from the early 1990s that follows an aging department store owner fighting to save his business and legacy amid economic and personal upheavals.
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E.
Fountain of Tears
Fountain of Tears is a famous 18th-century marble fountain in the Bakhchisarai Palace in Crimea, renowned as a symbol of tragic love and a major inspiration for Alexander Pushkin’s poem "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai."
- 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: Tränenpalast Target entity description: Tränenpalast is a former border crossing hall at Berlin’s Friedrichstraße station, now a museum documenting the history of German division and the Cold War.
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A.
Am Hof
Am Hof is a historic square in Vienna’s Innere Stadt district, known for its medieval origins, notable architecture, and role as a former center of civic and religious life.
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B.
Hexentanzplatz
Hexentanzplatz is a famous plateau and tourist spot in the Harz Mountains of Germany, known for its dramatic views, folklore about witches, and Walpurgis Night celebrations.
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C.
Le Palais de Cristal
Le Palais de Cristal is the original French title of George Balanchine’s neoclassical ballet better known in English as Symphony in C.
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D.
Der große Bellheim
Der große Bellheim is a German television miniseries from the early 1990s that follows an aging department store owner fighting to save his business and legacy amid economic and personal upheavals.
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E.
Fountain of Tears
Fountain of Tears is a famous 18th-century marble fountain in the Bakhchisarai Palace in Crimea, renowned as a symbol of tragic love and a major inspiration for Alexander Pushkin’s poem "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building
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former border crossing ⓘ memorial site ⓘ museum ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | modernist architecture ⓘ |
| category |
Berlin Wall related locations
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Cold War museums ⓘ Former border crossings of Germany ⓘ Museums in Berlin ⓘ |
| closedAsBorderCrossing | 1990 ⓘ |
| contains |
audio and video testimonies
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customs inspection rooms ⓘ documents and photographs from the GDR era ⓘ interrogation rooms ⓘ luggage control equipment ⓘ original border control booths ⓘ |
| coordinates | 52.5206°N 13.3872°E ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| exhibitionTitle | Alltag der deutschen Teilung ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
Denkmalschutz (monument protection)
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listed building ⓘ |
| inception | 1962 ⓘ |
| languageOfName | German ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Friedrichstraße station
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Mitte ⓘ East Berlin ⓘ
surface form:
former East Berlin
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| location |
Berlin
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Germany ⓘ |
| material |
glass
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steel ⓘ |
| nameMeaning |
Tränenpalast
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Palace of Tears
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| nearby |
Berliner Ensemble
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surface form:
Berliner Ensemble theatre
Friedrichstraße ⓘ Reichstagufer ⓘ Spree River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openedAsBorderCrossing | 1962 ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Haus der Geschichte
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surface form:
Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
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| ownedBy |
Haus der Geschichte
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surface form:
Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
|
| reasonForName | many emotional farewells took place there ⓘ |
| reopenedAsMuseum | 2011 ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
division of Berlin
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division of Germany ⓘ emotional impact of the Berlin Wall ⓘ separation of families and friends ⓘ |
| theme |
Berlin Wall
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Cold War ⓘ German division ⓘ border regime of the GDR ⓘ everyday life in divided Germany ⓘ |
| usedFor |
border controls between East and West Berlin
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border crossing for transit between East Germany and West Berlin ⓘ departure hall for travelers leaving East Berlin ⓘ documentation of German division ⓘ documentation of the Cold War ⓘ museum exhibitions ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Tränenpalast Description of subject: Tränenpalast is a former border crossing hall at Berlin’s Friedrichstraße station, now a museum documenting the history of German division and the Cold War.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Palace of Tears