Vladimir Nabokov Sr.
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Vladimir Nabokov Sr. was a prominent Russian liberal politician, lawyer, and journalist, best known as the father of novelist Vladimir Nabokov and as an outspoken advocate for democracy who was assassinated in 1922.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vladimir Nabokov Sr. canonical | 2 |
| Kirill Nabokov | 1 |
| Olga Nabokova | 1 |
| Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov | 1 |
| Владимир Набоков-старший | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2250660 — 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: Vladimir Nabokov Sr. Context triple: [Constitutional Democratic Party, hasMember, Vladimir Nabokov Sr.]
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A.
Evgeni Nabokov
Evgeni Nabokov is a former NHL goaltender best known for his standout career with the San Jose Sharks, where he became one of the franchise’s most successful and recognizable players.
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B.
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov was a Russian writer and playwright best known for his satirical and fantastical novel "The Master and Margarita."
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C.
Alexei Tolstoy
Alexei Tolstoy was a prominent Russian writer and novelist known for his historical epics, science fiction works, and contributions to Soviet literature.
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D.
Sergei Tolstoy
Sergei Tolstoy was a Russian nobleman and musician, best known as a son of the writer Leo Tolstoy and a member of the prominent Tolstoy family.
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E.
Anatoly Lukyanov
Anatoly Lukyanov was a Soviet politician and close ally of Mikhail Gorbachev who served as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet and later became known for his involvement in the failed August 1991 coup attempt.
- 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: Vladimir Nabokov Sr. Target entity description: Vladimir Nabokov Sr. was a prominent Russian liberal politician, lawyer, and journalist, best known as the father of novelist Vladimir Nabokov and as an outspoken advocate for democracy who was assassinated in 1922.
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A.
Evgeni Nabokov
Evgeni Nabokov is a former NHL goaltender best known for his standout career with the San Jose Sharks, where he became one of the franchise’s most successful and recognizable players.
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B.
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov was a Russian writer and playwright best known for his satirical and fantastical novel "The Master and Margarita."
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C.
Alexei Tolstoy
Alexei Tolstoy was a prominent Russian writer and novelist known for his historical epics, science fiction works, and contributions to Soviet literature.
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D.
Sergei Tolstoy
Sergei Tolstoy was a Russian nobleman and musician, best known as a son of the writer Leo Tolstoy and a member of the prominent Tolstoy family.
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E.
Anatoly Lukyanov
Anatoly Lukyanov was a Soviet politician and close ally of Mikhail Gorbachev who served as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet and later became known for his involvement in the failed August 1991 coup attempt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ liberal politician ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Berlin ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | assassination ⓘ |
| child |
Elena Nabokova
ⓘ
Vladimir Nabokov Sr. self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Kirill Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov Sr. self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Olga Nabokova
Sergey Nabokov ⓘ Vladimir Nabokov ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1870-07-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1922-03-28 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum
ⓘ
surface form:
Imperial Alexander Lyceum
Leningrad State University ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Petersburg State University
|
| employer | newspaper Rech ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Russian ⓘ |
| familyName |
Vladimir Nabokov
ⓘ
surface form:
Nabokov
|
| fieldOfStudy | law ⓘ |
| givenName | Vladimir ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Vladimir Nabokov
ⓘ
surface form:
Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov
|
| killedBy | Russian monarchist extremists ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Russian ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | homicide ⓘ |
| memberOf | Constitutional Democratic Party ⓘ |
| movement | Russian liberal movement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy of democracy
ⓘ
opposition to political extremism ⓘ |
| notableWork | articles in Rech ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Russian Empire
ⓘ
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Petersburg
|
| placeOfDeath |
Berlin
ⓘ
Weimar Republic ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | liberalism ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Minister of Justice of the Provisional Government of Russia
ⓘ
member of the First State Duma of the Russian Empire ⓘ member of the Provisional Government of Russia ⓘ member of the Second State Duma of the Russian Empire ⓘ |
| religion | Russian Orthodoxy ⓘ |
| residence |
Berlin
ⓘ
St. Petersburg ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Petersburg
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Elena Rukavishnikova ⓘ |
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: Vladimir Nabokov Sr. Description of subject: Vladimir Nabokov Sr. was a prominent Russian liberal politician, lawyer, and journalist, best known as the father of novelist Vladimir Nabokov and as an outspoken advocate for democracy who was assassinated in 1922.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Владимир Набоков-старший
this entity surface form:
Olga Nabokova
this entity surface form:
Kirill Nabokov
this entity surface form:
Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov