Sergei Korolev
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Sergei Korolev was the pioneering Soviet rocket engineer and chief designer who led the USSR’s early space program, including the launch of the first artificial satellite and the first human in space.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sergei Korolev canonical | 55 |
| Korolev | 2 |
| Sergei Pavlovich Korolev | 2 |
| Sergey Korolev | 1 |
| Сергей Павлович Королёв | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T86980 — 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.
Target entity: Sergei Korolev Context triple: [Kremlin Wall Necropolis, notableBurial, Sergei Korolev]
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A.
Andrei Tupolev
Andrei Tupolev was a pioneering Soviet aircraft designer who led the development of numerous influential military and civilian airplanes, making him one of the most important figures in aviation history.
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B.
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, orbiting Earth on 12 April 1961 and becoming an international symbol of the Space Age.
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C.
Alexey Stakhanov
Alexey Stakhanov was a Soviet miner whose record-breaking coal output in the 1930s made him the emblematic figure of the Stakhanovite movement promoting labor productivity in the USSR.
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D.
Yurii Rubinsky
Yurii Rubinsky was a pioneering Canadian technologist, publisher, and early advocate of SGML and open digital standards who significantly influenced the development of electronic publishing.
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E.
Andrei
Andrei is a masculine given name commonly used in Slavic and Eastern European countries, equivalent to the English name Andrew.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Sergei Korolev Target entity description: Sergei Korolev was the pioneering Soviet rocket engineer and chief designer who led the USSR’s early space program, including the launch of the first artificial satellite and the first human in space.
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A.
Andrei Tupolev
Andrei Tupolev was a pioneering Soviet aircraft designer who led the development of numerous influential military and civilian airplanes, making him one of the most important figures in aviation history.
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B.
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, orbiting Earth on 12 April 1961 and becoming an international symbol of the Space Age.
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C.
Alexey Stakhanov
Alexey Stakhanov was a Soviet miner whose record-breaking coal output in the 1930s made him the emblematic figure of the Stakhanovite movement promoting labor productivity in the USSR.
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D.
Yurii Rubinsky
Yurii Rubinsky was a pioneering Canadian technologist, publisher, and early advocate of SGML and open digital standards who significantly influenced the development of electronic publishing.
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E.
Vasily Stalin
Vasily Stalin was a Soviet Air Force officer and the son of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, known for his privileged yet troubled life within the Soviet elite.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soviet scientist
ⓘ
aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ rocket engineer ⓘ space program director ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Hero of Socialist Labour
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Lenin Prize ⓘ Order of Lenin ⓘ Order of the Red Banner of Labour ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Kremlin Wall Necropolis ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | surgical complications ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Russian Empire
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Soviet Union ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1907-01-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1966-01-14 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Imperial Moscow Technical School
ⓘ
surface form:
Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute ⓘ |
| employer |
NII-88
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OKB-1 ⓘ Soviet space program ⓘ |
| familyName |
Sergei Korolev
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Korolev
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| fieldOfWork |
astronautics
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rocket engineering ⓘ space exploration ⓘ |
| fullName |
Sergei Korolev
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev
|
| givenName | Sergei ⓘ |
| hasAlias |
Chief Constructor
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Chief Designer ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
designer
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engineer ⓘ scientist ⓘ |
| influenced |
Soviet space exploration strategy
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development of crewed spaceflight ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Konstantin Tsiolkovsky ⓘ |
| memberOf | Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| movement | Soviet space program ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
directed Vostok 1 mission, first human spaceflight
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directed launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite ⓘ led development of the first intercontinental ballistic missile R-7 ⓘ oversaw early Luna missions to the Moon ⓘ oversaw first spacewalk mission Voskhod 2 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Luna program launch vehicles
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R-7 Semyorka rocket ⓘ R-7 Semyorka rocket ⓘ
surface form:
Sputnik 1 launch vehicle
Voskhod spacecraft ⓘ Vostok 1 ⓘ
surface form:
Vostok spacecraft
|
| patronymicName |
Pavel
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surface form:
Pavlovich
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| placeOfBirth |
Russian Empire
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Volyn Oblast ⓘ
surface form:
Volhynian Governorate
Zhytomyr ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Moscow
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Russian SFSR ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Designer of the Soviet space program
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head of OKB-1 design bureau ⓘ |
| residence | Moscow ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Sergei Korolev Description of subject: Sergei Korolev was the pioneering Soviet rocket engineer and chief designer who led the USSR’s early space program, including the launch of the first artificial satellite and the first human in space.
Referenced by (61)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.