Veljko Kadijević
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Veljko Kadijević was a Yugoslav general and defense minister who played a key leadership role in the Yugoslav People's Army during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Veljko Kadijević canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12767850 — 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: Veljko Kadijević Context triple: [Ten-Day War, combatantCommander, Veljko Kadijević]
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A.
Aleksandar Ranković
Aleksandar Ranković was a prominent Yugoslav communist politician and close ally of Josip Broz Tito, known for his powerful role in the security apparatus and later dramatic political downfall.
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B.
Branko Radivojevič
Branko Radivojevič is a Slovak former professional ice hockey forward who played in the NHL and various European leagues, including representing Slovakia in international competition.
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C.
Živojin Mišić
Živojin Mišić was a prominent Serbian field marshal and military strategist, renowned for his leadership in key Balkan and World War I battles.
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D.
Aleksandar Petrović
Aleksandar Petrović is the brother of legendary Croatian basketball player Dražen Petrović.
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E.
Borislav Cvetković
Borislav Cvetković is a former Yugoslav athlete best known for delivering the Athletes' Oath at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
- 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: Veljko Kadijević Target entity description: Veljko Kadijević was a Yugoslav general and defense minister who played a key leadership role in the Yugoslav People's Army during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.
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A.
Aleksandar Ranković
Aleksandar Ranković was a prominent Yugoslav communist politician and close ally of Josip Broz Tito, known for his powerful role in the security apparatus and later dramatic political downfall.
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B.
Branko Radivojevič
Branko Radivojevič is a Slovak former professional ice hockey forward who played in the NHL and various European leagues, including representing Slovakia in international competition.
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C.
Živojin Mišić
Živojin Mišić was a prominent Serbian field marshal and military strategist, renowned for his leadership in key Balkan and World War I battles.
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D.
Aleksandar Petrović
Aleksandar Petrović is the brother of legendary Croatian basketball player Dražen Petrović.
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E.
Borislav Cvetković
Borislav Cvetković is a former Yugoslav athlete best known for delivering the Athletes' Oath at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Yugoslav general
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defense minister ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | late 20th century ⓘ |
| continentOfActivity | Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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linked to:
Yugoslavia
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| countryServed | Yugoslavia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Serb ⓘ |
| familyName | Kadijević ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
military strategy
ⓘ
national defense ⓘ |
| fullName | Veljko Kadijević ⓘ |
| givenName | Veljko ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasNameInNativeLanguage | Вељко Кадијевић ⓘ |
| ideology |
Yugoslavism
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communism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Serbo-Croatian ⓘ |
| memberOf | League of Communists of Yugoslavia ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Yugoslav People's Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Yugoslav Wars ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in early 1990s Yugoslav political-military crisis
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leadership role in the Yugoslav People's Army during the breakup of Yugoslavia ⓘ role in federal response to secessionist republics ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
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soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn | breakup of Yugoslavia ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Minister of Defence of Yugoslavia ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Balkans ⓘ |
| residence | Belgrade ⓘ |
| roleIn |
Yugoslav People's Army leadership
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linked to:
General Staff of the Yugoslav People’s Army
Yugoslav federal government ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity |
defense policy
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military ⓘ |
| writingSystemOfName |
Cyrillic
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Latin ⓘ |
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: Veljko Kadijević Description of subject: Veljko Kadijević was a Yugoslav general and defense minister who played a key leadership role in the Yugoslav People's Army during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ten-Day War (Slovenian Independence War)
Armed Forces of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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notableCommander
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Veljko Kadijević
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