Ivan Obolensky
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Ivan Obolensky was an American investment banker and publisher, known as a member of the prominent Astor family through his mother, Ava Alice Muriel Astor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ivan Obolensky canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9867995 — 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: Ivan Obolensky Context triple: [Ava Alice Muriel Astor, child, Ivan Obolensky]
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A.
Nikolai Danilevsky
Nikolai Danilevsky was a 19th-century Russian philosopher, historian, and sociologist best known for his theory of distinct cultural-historical types and his influential work "Russia and Europe."
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B.
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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C.
Grigory Vakulinchuk
Grigory Vakulinchuk is a revolutionary sailor whose death sparks the mutiny and mass uprising depicted in Sergei Eisenstein’s silent film "Battleship Potemkin."
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D.
Ivan Chernyakhovsky
Ivan Chernyakhovsky was a prominent Soviet general of World War II, noted as one of the youngest front commanders and a key figure in major Eastern Front offensives against Nazi Germany.
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E.
Ignatii Grinevitsky
Ignatii Grinevitsky was a member of the Russian revolutionary organization Narodnaya Volya, best known for assassinating Tsar Alexander II in 1881 by throwing a bomb at his carriage in St. Petersburg.
- 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: Ivan Obolensky Target entity description: Ivan Obolensky was an American investment banker and publisher, known as a member of the prominent Astor family through his mother, Ava Alice Muriel Astor.
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A.
Nikolai Danilevsky
Nikolai Danilevsky was a 19th-century Russian philosopher, historian, and sociologist best known for his theory of distinct cultural-historical types and his influential work "Russia and Europe."
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B.
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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C.
Grigory Vakulinchuk
Grigory Vakulinchuk is a revolutionary sailor whose death sparks the mutiny and mass uprising depicted in Sergei Eisenstein’s silent film "Battleship Potemkin."
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D.
Ivan Chernyakhovsky
Ivan Chernyakhovsky was a prominent Soviet general of World War II, noted as one of the youngest front commanders and a key figure in major Eastern Front offensives against Nazi Germany.
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E.
Ignatii Grinevitsky
Ignatii Grinevitsky was a member of the Russian revolutionary organization Narodnaya Volya, best known for assassinating Tsar Alexander II in 1881 by throwing a bomb at his carriage in St. Petersburg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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investment banker ⓘ member of the Astor family ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
St. George's School, Newport
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linked to:
St. George's School
Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | Obolensky & Co. ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
American people of English descent
ⓘ
American people of Russian descent ⓘ Russian nobility ⓘ |
| familyName |
Obolensky
ⓘ
linked to:
Eugene Obolensky
|
| fieldOfWork |
book publishing
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finance ⓘ |
| givenName | Ivan ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Ava Alice Muriel Astor
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John Jacob Astor IV ⓘ Prince Serge Obolensky ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Astor family
ⓘ
House of Obolensky ⓘ |
| mother | Ava Alice Muriel Astor ⓘ |
| notableFamily |
Astor family
ⓘ
Obolensky family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
activities as a book publisher
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being a member of the Astor family ⓘ career in American investment banking ⓘ |
| notableWork | publishing of literary works through Ivan Obolensky, Inc. ⓘ |
| occupation |
investment banker
ⓘ
publisher ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
partner at investment banking firm
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publisher at Ivan Obolensky, Inc. ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialClass | upper class ⓘ |
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: Ivan Obolensky Description of subject: Ivan Obolensky was an American investment banker and publisher, known as a member of the prominent Astor family through his mother, Ava Alice Muriel Astor.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.