Vasily Starodubtsev
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Vasily Starodubtsev was a Soviet and Russian politician and agrarian leader best known for his role as one of the hardline communist plotters in the failed 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vasily Starodubtsev canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1854754 — 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: Vasily Starodubtsev Context triple: [State Committee on the State of Emergency in the USSR, member, Vasily Starodubtsev]
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A.
Mikhail Kovalyov
Mikhail Kovalyov was a Soviet military commander who played a leading role in the Red Army’s operations during the 1939 invasion of Poland, known as the September Campaign.
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B.
Gavriil Govorov
Gavriil Govorov, better known as St. Theophan the Recluse, was a 19th-century Russian Orthodox bishop, theologian, and influential spiritual writer renowned for his works on inner prayer and Christian asceticism.
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C.
Mikhail Shumilov
Mikhail Shumilov was a Soviet general best known for his leadership of Red Army forces during key battles of World War II, including the Battle of Stalingrad.
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D.
Nikolai Vatutin
Nikolai Vatutin was a prominent Soviet general of World War II who played a key role in major Eastern Front offensives, including the defense and counteroffensives around Kursk.
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E.
Fyodor Tolbukhin
Fyodor Tolbukhin was a prominent Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union, noted for leading major Red Army offensives on the Eastern Front during World War II.
- 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: Vasily Starodubtsev Target entity description: Vasily Starodubtsev was a Soviet and Russian politician and agrarian leader best known for his role as one of the hardline communist plotters in the failed 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
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A.
Mikhail Kovalyov
Mikhail Kovalyov was a Soviet military commander who played a leading role in the Red Army’s operations during the 1939 invasion of Poland, known as the September Campaign.
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B.
Gavriil Govorov
Gavriil Govorov, better known as St. Theophan the Recluse, was a 19th-century Russian Orthodox bishop, theologian, and influential spiritual writer renowned for his works on inner prayer and Christian asceticism.
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C.
Mikhail Shumilov
Mikhail Shumilov was a Soviet general best known for his leadership of Red Army forces during key battles of World War II, including the Battle of Stalingrad.
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D.
Nikolai Vatutin
Nikolai Vatutin was a prominent Soviet general of World War II who played a key role in major Eastern Front offensives, including the defense and counteroffensives around Kursk.
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E.
Fyodor Tolbukhin
Fyodor Tolbukhin was a prominent Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union, noted for leading major Red Army offensives on the Eastern Front during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
agrarian leader
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Russia
ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ |
| employer | Soviet collective farm system ⓘ |
| familyName | Starodubtsev ⓘ |
| givenName | Vasily ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
ⓘ
linked to:
Коммунистическая партия Российской Федерации
Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt ⓘ |
| notableRole | leader of agrarian interests in Russia ⓘ |
| occupation |
agrarian leader
ⓘ
politician ⓘ trade unionist ⓘ |
| officeContested | President of Russia ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt
ⓘ
linked to:
August 1991 Soviet coup attempt
|
| placeOfBirth | Tula Oblast ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Tula Oblast ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | hardline communist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor of Tula Oblast ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workField |
agriculture
ⓘ
politics ⓘ |
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: Vasily Starodubtsev Description of subject: Vasily Starodubtsev was a Soviet and Russian politician and agrarian leader best known for his role as one of the hardline communist plotters in the failed 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.