Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky
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Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky is the birth name of Mike Nichols, the acclaimed film and theater director known for works such as "The Graduate" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Igor Peschkowsky | 1 |
| Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2297771 — 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: Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky Context triple: [Mike Nichols, birthName, Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky]
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A.
Mikhail Reutern
Mikhail Reutern was a prominent 19th-century Russian statesman and reformist finance minister who played a key role in modernizing the financial system of the Russian Empire.
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B.
Ivan Briukhovetsky
Ivan Briukhovetsky was a 17th-century Ukrainian Cossack leader who served as Hetman of the Left-bank Cossack Hetmanate and was known for his controversial alliance with Muscovy.
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C.
Mikhail Piotrovsky
Mikhail Piotrovsky is a Russian historian and museum curator best known for leading the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg for decades and overseeing its expansion and international prominence.
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D.
Nikolai Krestinsky
Nikolai Krestinsky was a Soviet Bolshevik revolutionary and high-ranking official who became a prominent defendant in Stalin’s Great Purge show trials before being executed.
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E.
Mikhail Diterikhs
Mikhail Diterikhs was a Russian Imperial and later White movement general who played a leading role in anti-Bolshevik military operations in Siberia during the Russian Civil War.
- 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: Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky Target entity description: Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky is the birth name of Mike Nichols, the acclaimed film and theater director known for works such as "The Graduate" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".
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A.
Mikhail Reutern
Mikhail Reutern was a prominent 19th-century Russian statesman and reformist finance minister who played a key role in modernizing the financial system of the Russian Empire.
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B.
Ivan Briukhovetsky
Ivan Briukhovetsky was a 17th-century Ukrainian Cossack leader who served as Hetman of the Left-bank Cossack Hetmanate and was known for his controversial alliance with Muscovy.
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C.
Mikhail Piotrovsky
Mikhail Piotrovsky is a Russian historian and museum curator best known for leading the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg for decades and overseeing its expansion and international prominence.
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D.
Nikolai Krestinsky
Nikolai Krestinsky was a Soviet Bolshevik revolutionary and high-ranking official who became a prominent defendant in Stalin’s Great Purge show trials before being executed.
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E.
Mikhail Diterikhs
Mikhail Diterikhs was a Russian Imperial and later White movement general who played a leading role in anti-Bolshevik military operations in Siberia during the Russian Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Director
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Emmy Award ⓘ Grammy Award ⓘ Tony Award ⓘ |
| birthNameOf | Mike Nichols NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1931-11-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2014-11-19 ⓘ |
| directed |
Angels in America
NERFINISHED
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Carnal Knowledge NERFINISHED ⓘ Closer NERFINISHED ⓘ Silkwood NERFINISHED ⓘ The Birdcage NERFINISHED ⓘ The Graduate NERFINISHED ⓘ Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? NERFINISHED ⓘ Working Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emigratedFrom | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emigratedTo | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName | Peschkowsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Mikhail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAchievement | EGOT NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownAs | Mike Nichols NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Carnal Knowledge
NERFINISHED
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Closer NERFINISHED ⓘ Silkwood NERFINISHED ⓘ The Birdcage NERFINISHED ⓘ The Graduate NERFINISHED ⓘ Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? NERFINISHED ⓘ Working Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
comedian
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film director ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Berlin ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Diane Sawyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky Description of subject: Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky is the birth name of Mike Nichols, the acclaimed film and theater director known for works such as "The Graduate" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mike Nichols
this entity surface form:
Michael Igor Peschkowsky