Vasilyevich
E375781
Vasilyevich is the Russian patronymic indicating "son of Vasily," famously used in the full name of Ivan IV (Ivan Vasilyevich), the first tsar of Russia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vasilyevich canonical | 3 |
| Vasilievich | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3640295 — 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: Vasilyevich Context triple: [Ivan IV the Terrible, patronymicName, Vasilyevich]
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A.
Viktorovich
Viktorovich is a Russian patronymic given name indicating that a person is the son of someone named Viktor.
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B.
Vladimirovich
Vladimirovich is the Russian patronymic derived from the given name Vladimir, indicating "son of Vladimir" and used in full names such as that of Vladimir Putin.
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C.
Vasily
Vasily is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Russian-speaking countries.
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D.
Vasily Vasiliev
Vasily Vasiliev is a descendant of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin’s family line, being the son of Stalin’s son Vasily Stalin.
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E.
Alekseevich
Alekseevich is a Russian patronymic surname or middle name derived from the given name Aleksey, indicating "son of Aleksey."
- 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: Vasilyevich Target entity description: Vasilyevich is the Russian patronymic indicating "son of Vasily," famously used in the full name of Ivan IV (Ivan Vasilyevich), the first tsar of Russia.
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A.
Viktorovich
Viktorovich is a Russian patronymic given name indicating that a person is the son of someone named Viktor.
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B.
Vladimirovich
Vladimirovich is the Russian patronymic derived from the given name Vladimir, indicating "son of Vladimir" and used in full names such as that of Vladimir Putin.
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C.
Vasily
Vasily is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Russian-speaking countries.
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D.
Vasily Vasiliev
Vasily Vasiliev is a descendant of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin’s family line, being the son of Stalin’s son Vasily Stalin.
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E.
Alekseevich
Alekseevich is a Russian patronymic surname or middle name derived from the given name Aleksey, indicating "son of Aleksey."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Russian patronymic
ⓘ
patronymic ⓘ |
| associatedWithTitle | tsar of Russia ⓘ |
| category | Slavic patronymic ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Eastern Slavic naming system ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Vasily ⓘ |
| etymologicalRoot | Basil (from Greek Basileios via Vasily) ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | male ⓘ |
| grammaticalCategory | patronymic noun form ⓘ |
| historicalUsage | used in Muscovite Russia ⓘ |
| language | Russian ⓘ |
| meaning | son of Vasily ⓘ |
| namingFunction | indicates father’s given name ⓘ |
| notUsedAs | family surname ⓘ |
| partOfFullName | Ivan Vasilyevich ⓘ |
| patronymicType | patronymic formed with suffix -evich ⓘ |
| positionInName | second element in a three-part Russian name ⓘ |
| region | Russia ⓘ |
| relatedForm |
Vasilyevich
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Vasilievich
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| relatedGivenName | Vasily ⓘ |
| script | Cyrillic ⓘ |
| usageNote | indicates respect and formality when combined with given name in Russian ⓘ |
| usedAs | middle name in Russian full names ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Ivan IV the Terrible
ⓘ
surface form:
Ivan IV of Russia
|
| usedIn | Russian naming tradition ⓘ |
| writtenForm | Васильевич ⓘ |
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: Vasilyevich Description of subject: Vasilyevich is the Russian patronymic indicating "son of Vasily," famously used in the full name of Ivan IV (Ivan Vasilyevich), the first tsar of Russia.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Vasilievich
this entity surface form:
Vasilievich