Valentin Ezhov
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Valentin Ezhov was a Soviet screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed World War II film "Ballad of a Soldier."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Valentin Ezhov canonical | 6 |
| Valentin Yezhov | 2 |
| Валентин Ежов | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8624921 — 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: Valentin Ezhov Context triple: [Ballad of a Soldier, writer, Valentin Ezhov]
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A.
Nikolai Yezhov
Nikolai Yezhov was a high-ranking Soviet secret police chief who oversaw the most brutal phase of Stalin’s Great Purge before himself falling victim to the terror.
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B.
Lavrentiy Beria
Lavrentiy Beria was a powerful Soviet politician and secret police chief under Joseph Stalin, notorious for his role in political repression, mass terror, and overseeing the Gulag system.
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C.
Sergo Beria
Sergo Beria was the son of Soviet secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria, known for his work as a Soviet military engineer and for later publishing memoirs about his father and the Stalin era.
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D.
Yevno Azef
Yevno Azef was a notorious early 20th-century Russian double agent who simultaneously led the Socialist Revolutionary Party’s terrorist wing and informed for the Tsarist secret police.
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E.
Felix Dzerzhinsky
Felix Dzerzhinsky was a Polish-born Bolshevik revolutionary best known as the founder and first head of the Soviet secret police, the Cheka, which evolved into the KGB.
- 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: Valentin Ezhov Target entity description: Valentin Ezhov was a Soviet screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed World War II film "Ballad of a Soldier."
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A.
Nikolai Yezhov
Nikolai Yezhov was a high-ranking Soviet secret police chief who oversaw the most brutal phase of Stalin’s Great Purge before himself falling victim to the terror.
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B.
Lavrentiy Beria
Lavrentiy Beria was a powerful Soviet politician and secret police chief under Joseph Stalin, notorious for his role in political repression, mass terror, and overseeing the Gulag system.
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C.
Sergo Beria
Sergo Beria was the son of Soviet secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria, known for his work as a Soviet military engineer and for later publishing memoirs about his father and the Stalin era.
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D.
Yevno Azef
Yevno Azef was a notorious early 20th-century Russian double agent who simultaneously led the Socialist Revolutionary Party’s terrorist wing and informed for the Tsarist secret police.
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E.
Felix Dzerzhinsky
Felix Dzerzhinsky was a Polish-born Bolshevik revolutionary best known as the founder and first head of the Soviet secret police, the Cheka, which evolved into the KGB.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soviet screenwriter
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film ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | film industry ⓘ |
| basedIn | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| coWrote | Ballad of a Soldier ⓘ |
| creativeWork | screenplays ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre | war film ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Russian ⓘ |
| mainSubject | World War II ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Soviet cinema
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World War II film scripts ⓘ |
| notableWork | Ballad of a Soldier ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Valentin Ezhov ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
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: Valentin Ezhov Description of subject: Valentin Ezhov was a Soviet screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed World War II film "Ballad of a Soldier."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ballad of a Soldier (1959 film)
subject linked to:
Ballad of a Soldier (1959 film)
subject linked to:
White Sun of the Desert (1970 film)
linked to: Valentin Ezhov
subject linked to:
Valentin Ezhov
linked to: Valentin Ezhov
subject linked to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sun_of_the_Desert
linked to: Valentin Ezhov