Yevgeny Prigozhin
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Yevgeny Prigozhin was a Russian oligarch and founder of the Wagner Group private military company, known for his close ties to Vladimir Putin, his role in Russia’s military operations in Ukraine, and his brief armed mutiny against Russia’s defense establishment in 2023.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yevgeny Prigozhin canonical | 12 |
| Prigozhin | 1 |
| Yevgeny Prigozhin business network | 1 |
| Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4955692 — 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: Yevgeny Prigozhin Context triple: [Battle of Bakhmut, commanderForRussia, Yevgeny Prigozhin]
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A.
Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny was a prominent Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist known for organizing mass protests and openly challenging Vladimir Putin’s rule.
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B.
Nikita Muravyov
Nikita Muravyov was a Russian nobleman, army officer, and political thinker best known as one of the leading Decembrists who drafted early constitutional projects to limit autocracy in the Russian Empire.
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C.
Zakhar Navalny
Zakhar Navalny is the son of the late Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny.
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D.
Ivan Kalyayev
Ivan Kalyayev was a Russian Socialist Revolutionary and terrorist who assassinated Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich in 1905 as part of the revolutionary struggle against the tsarist regime.
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E.
Maxim Purkayev
Maxim Purkayev was a Soviet Army general who held several high-level command positions during World War II and the final campaigns against Japan.
- 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: Yevgeny Prigozhin Target entity description: Yevgeny Prigozhin was a Russian oligarch and founder of the Wagner Group private military company, known for his close ties to Vladimir Putin, his role in Russia’s military operations in Ukraine, and his brief armed mutiny against Russia’s defense establishment in 2023.
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A.
Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny was a prominent Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist known for organizing mass protests and openly challenging Vladimir Putin’s rule.
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B.
Nikita Muravyov
Nikita Muravyov was a Russian nobleman, army officer, and political thinker best known as one of the leading Decembrists who drafted early constitutional projects to limit autocracy in the Russian Empire.
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C.
Zakhar Navalny
Zakhar Navalny is the son of the late Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny.
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D.
Ivan Kalyayev
Ivan Kalyayev was a Russian Socialist Revolutionary and terrorist who assassinated Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich in 1905 as part of the revolutionary struggle against the tsarist regime.
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E.
Maxim Purkayev
Maxim Purkayev was a Soviet Army general who held several high-level command positions during World War II and the final campaigns against Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Russian oligarch
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businessperson ⓘ human ⓘ paramilitary leader ⓘ warlord ⓘ |
| announcedMutinyDate | 2023-06-23 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Porokhovskoye Cemetery ⓘ |
| businessBase |
Saint Petersburg
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint Petersburg Federal City
|
| businessPartner | Russian government ⓘ |
| chargedBy | United States Department of Justice ⓘ |
| chargedWith | conspiracy to defraud the United States ⓘ |
| closeTo | Vladimir Putin ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Russian Ministry of Defence
ⓘ
Sergei Shoigu ⓘ Valery Gerasimov ⓘ |
| controlled | Internet Research Agency ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Russia ⓘ |
| criminalRecord |
convicted in Soviet Union for fraud
ⓘ
convicted in Soviet Union for robbery ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1961-06-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2023-08-23 ⓘ |
| diedIn | crash of Embraer Legacy 600 ⓘ |
| employer | Wagner Group ⓘ |
| endedMutinyDate | 2023-06-24 ⓘ |
| endOfImprisonment | 1990 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Russian ⓘ |
| familyName |
Prigozhin
ⓘ
linked to:
Yevgeny Prigozhin
|
| founded | Wagner Group ⓘ |
| fullName |
Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin
ⓘ
linked to:
Yevgeny Prigozhin
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Yevgeny ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
Battle of Bakhmut
ⓘ
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections ⓘ Russian invasion of Ukraine ⓘ
linked to:
Russo-Ukrainian War
|
| laterLivedIn |
Saint Petersburg
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint Petersburg Federal City
|
| led | 2023 Wagner Group rebellion ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | plane crash ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| negotiatedWith | Alexander Lukashenko ⓘ |
| nickname | Putin's chef ⓘ |
| notableFor |
close ties to Vladimir Putin
ⓘ
founding the Wagner Group private military company ⓘ involvement in Russian military operations in Ukraine ⓘ leading a brief armed mutiny in Russia in 2023 ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
mercenary leader ⓘ political activist ⓘ restaurateur ⓘ |
| operated |
Concord Catering
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Concord Management and Consulting ⓘ |
| patronymicName | Viktorovich ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Leningrad
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Russian SFSR ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Tver Oblast ⓘ |
| reasonForNickname | catering contracts for the Kremlin ⓘ |
| resultOfMutiny | agreement to relocate to Belarus ⓘ |
| servedPrisonTime | Soviet penal system ⓘ |
| startOfImprisonment | 1981 ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Australian sanctions
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Canadian sanctions ⓘ European Union sanctions ⓘ U.S. sanctions ⓘ United Kingdom sanctions ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Yevgeny Prigozhin Description of subject: Yevgeny Prigozhin was a Russian oligarch and founder of the Wagner Group private military company, known for his close ties to Vladimir Putin, his role in Russia’s military operations in Ukraine, and his brief armed mutiny against Russia’s defense establishment in 2023.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Wagner Group (Russian private military company)
subject linked to:
Wagner Group (Russian private military company)
linked to: Yevgeny Prigozhin
linked to: Yevgeny Prigozhin
linked to: Yevgeny Prigozhin