Vladimir Komarov
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Vladimir Komarov was a Soviet cosmonaut and test pilot who became the first human to die during a spaceflight, perishing in the Soyuz 1 mission in 1967.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vladimir Komarov canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2860490 — 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 Komarov Context triple: [Voskhod spacecraft, crewOfVoskhod1, Vladimir Komarov]
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A.
Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov
Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov was a Russian scientist known for his contributions to microbiology and the study of microbial communities (microbiota).
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B.
Alexei Leonov
Alexei Leonov was a Soviet cosmonaut famed for performing the first spacewalk in history and later becoming a prominent figure in space exploration and its public outreach.
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C.
Sergei K. Krikalev
Sergei K. Krikalev is a renowned Russian cosmonaut and mechanical engineer known for his long-duration spaceflights and record-setting cumulative time spent in space.
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D.
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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E.
Oleksandr Kornienko
Oleksandr Kornienko is a Ukrainian politician who has held senior leadership roles in the Servant of the People party and in Ukraine’s parliament.
- 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 Komarov Target entity description: Vladimir Komarov was a Soviet cosmonaut and test pilot who became the first human to die during a spaceflight, perishing in the Soyuz 1 mission in 1967.
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A.
Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov
Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov was a Russian scientist known for his contributions to microbiology and the study of microbial communities (microbiota).
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B.
Alexei Leonov
Alexei Leonov was a Soviet cosmonaut famed for performing the first spacewalk in history and later becoming a prominent figure in space exploration and its public outreach.
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C.
Sergei K. Krikalev
Sergei K. Krikalev is a renowned Russian cosmonaut and mechanical engineer known for his long-duration spaceflights and record-setting cumulative time spent in space.
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D.
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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E.
Oleksandr Kornienko
Oleksandr Kornienko is a Ukrainian politician who has held senior leadership roles in the Servant of the People party and in Ukraine’s parliament.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soviet military officer
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cosmonaut ⓘ human ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Hero of the Soviet Union
ⓘ
Order of Lenin ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Kremlin Wall Necropolis ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
spacecraft crash
ⓘ
spaceflight accident ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1927-03-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1967-04-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Air Force Technical College
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surface form:
Air Force engineering school
|
| ethnicGroup | Russian ⓘ |
| familyName | Komarov ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerospace engineering
ⓘ
aviation ⓘ |
| givenName | Vladimir ⓘ |
| hasRank | colonel ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | accident ⓘ |
| memberOf | Soviet space program ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Soviet Air Forces ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| notableFor | first human to die during a spaceflight ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Soyuz 1
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surface form:
Soyuz 1 mission
Voskhod 1 ⓘ
surface form:
Voskhod 1 mission
|
| occupation |
aerospace engineer
ⓘ
cosmonaut ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Soviet space race
ⓘ
first multi-person spaceflight (Voskhod 1) ⓘ |
| partOf | early Soviet human spaceflight program ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Moscow
ⓘ
Russian SFSR ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Orenburg Oblast
NERFINISHED
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Russian SFSR ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ near Orsk ⓘ |
| residence | Moscow ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| significantEvent | fatal crash of Soyuz 1 descent module ⓘ |
| spacecraft |
Soyuz 1
ⓘ
Voskhod 1 ⓘ |
| spaceMission |
Soyuz 1
ⓘ
Voskhod 1 ⓘ |
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 Komarov Description of subject: Vladimir Komarov was a Soviet cosmonaut and test pilot who became the first human to die during a spaceflight, perishing in the Soyuz 1 mission in 1967.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.