Alexander Yegorov
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Alexander Yegorov was a prominent Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union who played a key role in Red Army operations during the Russian Civil War before later falling victim to Stalin’s purges.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alexander Ilich Yegorov | 1 |
| Alexander Yegorov canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2632614 — 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: Alexander Yegorov Context triple: [Southern Front of the Russian Civil War, commander, Alexander Yegorov]
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A.
Aleksei Yegorov
Aleksei Yegorov was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union who played a key role in Red Army operations during and after the Russian Civil War.
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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 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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D.
Vasily Boldyrev
Vasily Boldyrev was a Russian general and political figure who played a leading role in the anti-Bolshevik White movement during the Russian Civil War.
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E.
Pyotr Mikhailov
Pyotr Mikhailov was the alias used by Tsar Peter the Great of Russia when he traveled incognito during the Grand Embassy to Western Europe in 1697–1698.
- 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: Alexander Yegorov Target entity description: Alexander Yegorov was a prominent Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union who played a key role in Red Army operations during the Russian Civil War before later falling victim to Stalin’s purges.
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A.
Aleksei Yegorov
Aleksei Yegorov was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union who played a key role in Red Army operations during and after the Russian Civil War.
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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 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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D.
Vasily Boldyrev
Vasily Boldyrev was a Russian general and political figure who played a leading role in the anti-Bolshevik White movement during the Russian Civil War.
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E.
Pyotr Mikhailov
Pyotr Mikhailov was the alias used by Tsar Peter the Great of Russia when he traveled incognito during the Grand Embassy to Western Europe in 1697–1698.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Marshal of the Soviet Union
ⓘ
Soviet military commander ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activityStart | Russian Civil War era ⓘ |
| allegiance | Red Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Russian Empire
ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ |
| country | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Russian ⓘ |
| fate | purged under Stalin ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Stalin era
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
early Soviet period ⓘ |
| ideology | communism ⓘ |
| memberOf | Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Red Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
Marshal of the Soviet Union
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
commander ⓘ |
| notableEvent | victim of the Great Purge ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Red Army operations during the Russian Civil War
ⓘ
high-ranking command in the Red Army ⓘ |
| notableRole | Soviet military leader in the Russian Civil War ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Russian Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| persecutedBy | Joseph Stalin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalSystemContext | Soviet Union under Stalin ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Marshal of the Soviet Union 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: Alexander Yegorov Description of subject: Alexander Yegorov was a prominent Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union who played a key role in Red Army operations during the Russian Civil War before later falling victim to Stalin’s purges.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Alexander Ilich Yegorov