Oleg Penkovsky
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Oleg Penkovsky was a high-ranking Soviet military intelligence officer who spied for the West during the Cold War and provided crucial information about Soviet missiles before being arrested and executed.
All labels observed (1)
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| Oleg Penkovsky canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14162832 — 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: Oleg Penkovsky Context triple: [The Courier, historicalFigureDepicted, Oleg Penkovsky]
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A.
Dmitry Golitsyn
Dmitry Golitsyn was a prominent Russian general and statesman of the early 18th century, noted for his military leadership during the Great Northern War and his influential role in imperial politics.
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B.
Andrei Golitsyn
Andrei Golitsyn was a Russian nobleman and statesman from the influential Golitsyn family who played a role in early 17th-century Muscovite politics.
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C.
Sergei Mitrokhin
Sergei Mitrokhin is a Russian liberal politician and activist known for his leadership role in the Yabloko party and his opposition to Kremlin policies.
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D.
Kim Philby
Kim Philby was a high-ranking British intelligence officer who became one of the most infamous Soviet double agents of the 20th century.
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E.
Georgy Golitsyn
Georgy Golitsyn is a Russian atmospheric physicist known for his influential work on climate modeling and the atmospheric effects of volcanic eruptions and nuclear 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: Oleg Penkovsky Target entity description: Oleg Penkovsky was a high-ranking Soviet military intelligence officer who spied for the West during the Cold War and provided crucial information about Soviet missiles before being arrested and executed.
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A.
Dmitry Golitsyn
Dmitry Golitsyn was a prominent Russian general and statesman of the early 18th century, noted for his military leadership during the Great Northern War and his influential role in imperial politics.
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B.
Andrei Golitsyn
Andrei Golitsyn was a Russian nobleman and statesman from the influential Golitsyn family who played a role in early 17th-century Muscovite politics.
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C.
Sergei Mitrokhin
Sergei Mitrokhin is a Russian liberal politician and activist known for his leadership role in the Yabloko party and his opposition to Kremlin policies.
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D.
Kim Philby
Kim Philby was a high-ranking British intelligence officer who became one of the most infamous Soviet double agents of the 20th century.
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E.
Georgy Golitsyn
Georgy Golitsyn is a Russian atmospheric physicist known for his influential work on climate modeling and the atmospheric effects of volcanic eruptions and nuclear war.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.