Irkutsk
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Irkutsk is a major city in southeastern Siberia, Russia, historically significant as a political and administrative center and a key hub during the Russian Civil War.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Irkutsk canonical | 76 |
| 38 (Irkutsk Oblast) | 1 |
| city of Irkutsk | 1 |
| Иркутск | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1947633 — 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: Irkutsk Context triple: [Kolchak government, dissolutionPlace, Irkutsk]
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A.
Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk is a large industrial and cultural city in central Russia, situated on the Yenisei River and known as one of the key urban centers of Siberia.
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B.
Omsk
Omsk is one of the largest cities in southwestern Siberia, Russia, serving as a major industrial, cultural, and transportation hub on the Irtysh River.
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C.
Yakutsk
Yakutsk is a major city in northeastern Siberia, Russia, known as one of the coldest large cities in the world and a key administrative and cultural center of the Sakha Republic.
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D.
Khabarovsk
Khabarovsk is a major city in Russia’s Far East, located near the Chinese border on the Amur River and serving as an important administrative, cultural, and transportation center.
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E.
Tyumen
Tyumen is a historic city in western Siberia, Russia, known as an early Russian settlement in Siberia and now a major industrial and administrative center.
- 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: Irkutsk Target entity description: Irkutsk is a major city in southeastern Siberia, Russia, historically significant as a political and administrative center and a key hub during the Russian Civil War.
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A.
Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk is a large industrial and cultural city in central Russia, situated on the Yenisei River and known as one of the key urban centers of Siberia.
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B.
Omsk
Omsk is one of the largest cities in southwestern Siberia, Russia, serving as a major industrial, cultural, and transportation hub on the Irtysh River.
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C.
Yakutsk
Yakutsk is a major city in northeastern Siberia, Russia, known as one of the coldest large cities in the world and a key administrative and cultural center of the Sakha Republic.
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D.
Khabarovsk
Khabarovsk is a major city in Russia’s Far East, located near the Chinese border on the Amur River and serving as an important administrative, cultural, and transportation center.
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E.
Tyumen
Tyumen is a historic city in western Siberia, Russia, known as an early Russian settlement in Siberia and now a major industrial and administrative center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Irkutsk Description of subject: Irkutsk is a major city in southeastern Siberia, Russia, historically significant as a political and administrative center and a key hub during the Russian Civil War.
Referenced by (79)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.