Yakov
E79564
Yakov was the eldest son of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, known for his troubled relationship with his father and his death as a prisoner of war during World War II.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T390871 — 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: Yakov Context triple: [Yakov Dzhugashvili, givenName, Yakov]
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A.
Sergei
Sergei is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Russia and other Eastern European countries.
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B.
Mikhail
Mikhail is a common Russian male given name, famously borne by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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C.
Foma Gordeyev
Foma Gordeyev is a novel by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that portrays the moral and spiritual decline of a wealthy merchant’s son amid the social tensions of late 19th-century Russia.
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D.
Alexey
Alexey is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Russian-speaking countries and derived from the Greek name Alexios, meaning "defender" or "helper."
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E.
Pavel
Pavel is a Slavic given name, equivalent to the English name Paul.
- 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: Yakov Target entity description: Yakov was the eldest son of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, known for his troubled relationship with his father and his death as a prisoner of war during World War II.
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A.
Sergei
Sergei is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Russia and other Eastern European countries.
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B.
Mikhail
Mikhail is a common Russian male given name, famously borne by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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C.
Foma Gordeyev
Foma Gordeyev is a novel by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that portrays the moral and spiritual decline of a wealthy merchant’s son amid the social tensions of late 19th-century Russia.
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D.
Alexey
Alexey is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Russian-speaking countries and derived from the Greek name Alexios, meaning "defender" or "helper."
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E.
Pavel
Pavel is a Slavic given name, equivalent to the English name Paul.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soviet military officer
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| allegiance | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| birthName |
Yakov Dzhugashvili
ⓘ
surface form:
Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili
|
| causeOfDeath | gunshot wound ⓘ |
| child | Galina Dzhugashvili ⓘ |
| conflict |
Eastern Front
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Front (World War II)
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
Russian SFSR
ⓘ
surface form:
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Soviet Union ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1907-03-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1943-04-14 ⓘ |
| detainedAt |
Oflag POW camps
ⓘ
surface form:
Hammelburg prisoner-of-war camp
Sachsenhausen concentration camp ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Georgians ⓘ |
| familyName |
Yakov Dzhugashvili
ⓘ
surface form:
Dzhugashvili
|
| father | Joseph Stalin ⓘ |
| front | Western Front (Red Army) ⓘ |
| givenName | Yakov self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Nadezhda Alliluyeva ⓘ |
| hasTroubledRelationshipWith | Joseph Stalin ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Georgian
ⓘ
Russian ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | death in prison ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Red Army ⓘ |
| militaryUnit | artillery unit of the Red Army ⓘ |
| mother | Kato Svanidze ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Yakov Dzhugashvili
ⓘ
surface form:
Яков Джугашвили
|
| notableEvent |
capture by German forces in 1941
ⓘ
refusal to cooperate with Nazi propaganda while in captivity ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being captured as a Soviet officer by German forces in World War II
ⓘ
being the eldest son of Joseph Stalin ⓘ dying in German captivity during World War II ⓘ |
| notableQuoteAttributed | I will not trade a Marshal for a lieutenant (regarding a proposed prisoner exchange) ⓘ |
| participantIn | World War II ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Imereti region of Georgia
ⓘ
surface form:
Baji, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire
Georgia ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Oranienburg
ⓘ
surface form:
Oranienburg, Germany
Sachsenhausen concentration camp ⓘ |
| positionHeld | artillery officer ⓘ |
| rank | lieutenant ⓘ |
| religion |
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Orthodoxy
|
| sibling |
Svetlana Alliluyeva
ⓘ
Vasily Stalin ⓘ |
| spouse | Yulia Meltzer ⓘ |
| wasPrisonerOf | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
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: Yakov Description of subject: Yakov was the eldest son of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, known for his troubled relationship with his father and his death as a prisoner of war during World War II.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jakov
this entity surface form:
Yacov