Nikolai Yershov
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Nikolai Yershov was a Russian individual notable enough to be commemorated with a grave in Arsk Cemetery in Kazan, Russia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nikolai Yershov canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2766689 — 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: Nikolai Yershov Context triple: [Arsk Cemetery, containsGraveOf, Nikolai Yershov]
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A.
Nikolay Yevdokimov
Nikolay Yevdokimov was a Russian Imperial general known for his leading role in the final, often brutal, campaigns that subdued resistance in the Caucasus during the 19th century.
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B.
Vladimir Shklyarov
Vladimir Shklyarov is a renowned Russian ballet dancer and principal artist celebrated for his performances with the Mariinsky Ballet.
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C.
Nikolai Kulikovsky
Nikolai Kulikovsky was a Russian military officer best known as the second husband of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, the youngest sister of Tsar Nicholas II.
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D.
Nikolai Nikitin
Nikolai Nikitin was a prominent Soviet structural engineer and architect best known for designing landmark monumental structures, including the towering statue at the Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex and the Ostankino TV Tower in Moscow.
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E.
Ivan Yakubovsky
Ivan Yakubovsky was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union who played a leading role in Warsaw Pact operations during the Cold 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: Nikolai Yershov Target entity description: Nikolai Yershov was a Russian individual notable enough to be commemorated with a grave in Arsk Cemetery in Kazan, Russia.
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A.
Nikolay Yevdokimov
Nikolay Yevdokimov was a Russian Imperial general known for his leading role in the final, often brutal, campaigns that subdued resistance in the Caucasus during the 19th century.
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B.
Vladimir Shklyarov
Vladimir Shklyarov is a renowned Russian ballet dancer and principal artist celebrated for his performances with the Mariinsky Ballet.
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C.
Nikolai Kulikovsky
Nikolai Kulikovsky was a Russian military officer best known as the second husband of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, the youngest sister of Tsar Nicholas II.
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D.
Nikolai Nikitin
Nikolai Nikitin was a prominent Soviet structural engineer and architect best known for designing landmark monumental structures, including the towering statue at the Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex and the Ostankino TV Tower in Moscow.
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E.
Ivan Yakubovsky
Ivan Yakubovsky was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union who played a leading role in Warsaw Pact operations during the Cold War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Russia ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial |
Arsk Cemetery
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Kazan ⓘ Russia ⓘ |
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: Nikolai Yershov Description of subject: Nikolai Yershov was a Russian individual notable enough to be commemorated with a grave in Arsk Cemetery in Kazan, Russia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.