Nevel Offensive Operation

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World War II military operation military offensive

The Nevel Offensive Operation was a World War II Soviet military campaign aimed at liberating the town of Nevel and disrupting German defensive lines on the Eastern Front.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Nevel Offensive	1
Nevel Offensive Operation canonical	1
Nevel Operation	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4928244 — 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: Nevel Offensive Operation
Context triple: [Kalinin Front, engagedIn, Nevel Offensive Operation]

A. Orel offensive operation
The Orel offensive operation, known as Operation Kutuzov, was a major Soviet counteroffensive in July–August 1943 that aimed to eliminate the German-held Orel salient following the Battle of Kursk during World War II.
B. Kaluga offensive operation
The Kaluga offensive operation was a World War II Red Army campaign in late 1941 aimed at liberating the city of Kaluga and pushing German forces westward during the broader Soviet winter counteroffensive.
C. Velikiye Luki offensive
The Velikiye Luki offensive was a major Soviet World War II operation in late 1942–early 1943 aimed at encircling and recapturing the strategically important city of Velikiye Luki from German forces.
D. Klin–Solnechnogorsk offensive operation
The Klin–Solnechnogorsk offensive operation was a Soviet Red Army attack in December 1941 aimed at driving German forces away from Moscow by recapturing the towns of Klin and Solnechnogorsk.
E. Smolensk offensive operation
The Smolensk offensive operation was a major 1943 Red Army campaign on the Eastern Front that helped drive German forces westward and set the stage for the liberation of Belarus.
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: Nevel Offensive Operation
Target entity description: The Nevel Offensive Operation was a World War II Soviet military campaign aimed at liberating the town of Nevel and disrupting German defensive lines on the Eastern Front.

A. Orel offensive operation
The Orel offensive operation, known as Operation Kutuzov, was a major Soviet counteroffensive in July–August 1943 that aimed to eliminate the German-held Orel salient following the Battle of Kursk during World War II.
B. Kaluga offensive operation
The Kaluga offensive operation was a World War II Red Army campaign in late 1941 aimed at liberating the city of Kaluga and pushing German forces westward during the broader Soviet winter counteroffensive.
C. Velikiye Luki offensive
The Velikiye Luki offensive was a major Soviet World War II operation in late 1942–early 1943 aimed at encircling and recapturing the strategically important city of Velikiye Luki from German forces.
D. Klin–Solnechnogorsk offensive operation
The Klin–Solnechnogorsk offensive operation was a Soviet Red Army attack in December 1941 aimed at driving German forces away from Moscow by recapturing the towns of Klin and Solnechnogorsk.
E. Smolensk offensive operation
The Smolensk offensive operation was a major 1943 Red Army campaign on the Eastern Front that helped drive German forces westward and set the stage for the liberation of Belarus.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World War II military operation ⓘ military offensive ⓘ
aimedAt	German Army Group North ⓘ linked to: Army Group North
alsoKnownAs	Nevel Offensive ⓘ linked to: Nevel Offensive Operation Nevel Operation ⓘ linked to: Nevel Offensive Operation
belligerent	Nazi Germany ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ
combatant	Soviet 2nd Baltic Front ⓘ linked to: 2nd Baltic Front Soviet Kalinin Front ⓘ linked to: Red Army Kalinin Front
commander	Andrei Yeremenko ⓘ linked to: Andrey Yeryomenko Ivan Maslennikov ⓘ
conductedBy	Red Army ⓘ
conflict	World War II ⓘ
country	Germany ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ
dateOfLiberationOfNevel	1943-10-06 ⓘ
endDate	1943-12-31 ⓘ
followedBy	Gorodok Offensive Operation ⓘ Vitebsk Offensive Operations ⓘ linked to: Vitebsk–Orsha offensive
front	Eastern Front ⓘ
historicalPeriod	Great Patriotic War ⓘ linked to: World War II
involvedUnit	3rd Shock Army ⓘ 4th Shock Army ⓘ Latvian Rifle Divisions ⓘ linked to: Latvian Rifle Division
location	Nevel ⓘ Pskov Oblast ⓘ Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ⓘ linked to: Russian SFSR
militaryBranch	Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ
objective	breach of German front in the Nevel area ⓘ disruption of German defensive lines ⓘ liberation of Nevel ⓘ
opposedBy	Wehrmacht ⓘ
opposingCommander	Georg von Küchler ⓘ Walter Model ⓘ
opposingUnit	German 16th Army ⓘ German 3rd Panzer Army ⓘ linked to: 3rd Panzer Army
partOf	Eastern Front of World War II ⓘ
precededBy	Smolensk Operation (1943) ⓘ linked to: Operation Suvorov (Smolensk offensive, 1943)
region	northwestern sector of the Eastern Front ⓘ
result	Soviet victory ⓘ
startDate	1943-10-06 ⓘ
strategicEffect	creation of a salient in German lines near Nevel ⓘ weakening of German Panther–Wotan line sector ⓘ
theater	Soviet–German War ⓘ linked to: Eastern Front of World War II
typeOfAttack	combined arms offensive ⓘ
year	1943 ⓘ

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kalinin Front → engagedIn → Nevel Offensive Operation ⓘ

Nevel Offensive Operation → alsoKnownAs → Nevel Offensive ⓘ

linked to: Nevel Offensive Operation

Nevel Offensive Operation → alsoKnownAs → Nevel Operation ⓘ