Vasily Ulrikh
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Vasily Ulrikh was a Soviet judge and key figure in Stalin’s Great Purge, notorious for presiding over major show trials and issuing numerous death sentences.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vasily Ulrikh canonical | 3 |
| Vasily Vasilyevich Ulrikh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T514431 — 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: Vasily Ulrikh Context triple: [Trial of the Sixteen, presidedOverBy, Vasily Ulrikh]
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A.
Pyotr
Pyotr is the Russian given name of Peter Kropotkin, the influential 19th-century anarchist philosopher, geographer, and revolutionary.
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B.
Pavel Batov
Pavel Batov was a distinguished Soviet general who commanded key formations on the Eastern Front during World War II and later held senior military and political posts in the USSR.
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C.
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, better known by his pen name Maksim Gorky, was a prominent Russian and Soviet writer and political activist regarded as a founder of socialist realism in literature.
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D.
Nikolai Vatutin
Nikolai Vatutin was a prominent Soviet general of World War II who played a key role in major Eastern Front offensives, including the defense and counteroffensives around Kursk.
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E.
Pyotr Wrangel
Pyotr Wrangel was a prominent White Army general and monarchist leader who became one of the last major anti-Bolshevik commanders during the final stages of the Russian Civil 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: Vasily Ulrikh Target entity description: Vasily Ulrikh was a Soviet judge and key figure in Stalin’s Great Purge, notorious for presiding over major show trials and issuing numerous death sentences.
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A.
Pyotr
Pyotr is the Russian given name of Peter Kropotkin, the influential 19th-century anarchist philosopher, geographer, and revolutionary.
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B.
Pavel Batov
Pavel Batov was a distinguished Soviet general who commanded key formations on the Eastern Front during World War II and later held senior military and political posts in the USSR.
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C.
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, better known by his pen name Maksim Gorky, was a prominent Russian and Soviet writer and political activist regarded as a founder of socialist realism in literature.
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D.
Nikolai Vatutin
Nikolai Vatutin was a prominent Soviet general of World War II who played a key role in major Eastern Front offensives, including the defense and counteroffensives around Kursk.
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E.
Pyotr Wrangel
Pyotr Wrangel was a prominent White Army general and monarchist leader who became one of the last major anti-Bolshevik commanders during the final stages of the Russian Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soviet jurist
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judge ⓘ person ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1889 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1951 ⓘ |
| employer |
Soviet government
ⓘ
Supreme Court of the Soviet Union ⓘ
surface form:
Supreme Court of the USSR
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| ethnicGroup | Latvian ⓘ |
| familyName |
Ulrich
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surface form:
Ulrikh
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| fullName |
Vasily Ulrikh
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Vasily Vasilyevich Ulrikh
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| givenName | Vasily ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
notorious for harsh sentences
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symbol of Stalinist show trials ⓘ |
| ideology |
Stalin era
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surface form:
Stalinism
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| languageOfWorkOrName | Russian ⓘ |
| legalSystem | Soviet legal system ⓘ |
| memberOf | Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| notableFor |
issuing numerous death sentences
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presiding over Soviet show trials ⓘ role in Stalin’s Great Purge ⓘ |
| notableWork | sentencing of political defendants during Great Purge ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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jurist ⓘ military judge ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Great Purge
ⓘ
Moscow Trials ⓘ |
| partOf |
Stalinist repressions
ⓘ
surface form:
Soviet repressive apparatus
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| placeOfBirth | Riga ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Moscow ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chairman of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR ⓘ |
| presidedOver |
show trials of Old Bolsheviks
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trials of high-ranking Soviet officials ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Moscow ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Vasily Ulrikh Description of subject: Vasily Ulrikh was a Soviet judge and key figure in Stalin’s Great Purge, notorious for presiding over major show trials and issuing numerous death sentences.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Vasily Vasilyevich Ulrikh