Gosudarstvenny Komitet Oborony SSSR

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government organization state committee wartime emergency governing body

Gosudarstvenny Komitet Oborony SSSR was the supreme emergency governing body of the Soviet Union during World War II, concentrating all military, economic, and political power to direct the war effort.

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All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
State Defense Committee of the USSR	3
Gosudarstvenny Komitet Oborony	1
Gosudarstvenny Komitet Oborony SSSR canonical	1
Gosudarstvenny Komitet Oborony Soyuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik	1
Государственный Комитет Обороны	1
Государственный комитет обороны	1
Государственный комитет обороны СССР	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10240433 — 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: Gosudarstvenny Komitet Oborony SSSR
Context triple: [State Defense Committee, alsoKnownAs, Gosudarstvenny Komitet Oborony SSSR]

A. Ministry of Defense of the USSR
The Ministry of Defense of the USSR was the central government body responsible for directing and administering the Soviet Union’s armed forces and overall military policy.
B. Defense Council of the USSR
The Defense Council of the USSR was a top-level Soviet state body responsible for coordinating and directing the country's overall defense and military policy.
C. People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR
The People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR was the early Soviet government ministry responsible for directing and administering the Red Army and Navy at the union-wide level.
D. People's Commissariat of Armaments of the USSR
The People's Commissariat of Armaments of the USSR was a Soviet government ministry responsible for overseeing the development and production of weapons and military equipment, particularly during World War II.
E. People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR
The People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR was the top Soviet government post responsible for directing the Red Army and overseeing the military defense policy of the Soviet Union.
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: Gosudarstvenny Komitet Oborony SSSR
Target entity description: Gosudarstvenny Komitet Oborony SSSR was the supreme emergency governing body of the Soviet Union during World War II, concentrating all military, economic, and political power to direct the war effort.

A. Ministry of Defense of the USSR
The Ministry of Defense of the USSR was the central government body responsible for directing and administering the Soviet Union’s armed forces and overall military policy.
B. Defense Council of the USSR
The Defense Council of the USSR was a top-level Soviet state body responsible for coordinating and directing the country's overall defense and military policy.
C. People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR
The People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR was the early Soviet government ministry responsible for directing and administering the Red Army and Navy at the union-wide level.
D. People's Commissariat of Armaments of the USSR
The People's Commissariat of Armaments of the USSR was a Soviet government ministry responsible for overseeing the development and production of weapons and military equipment, particularly during World War II.
E. People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR
The People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR was the top Soviet government post responsible for directing the Red Army and overseeing the military defense policy of the Soviet Union.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	government organization ⓘ state committee ⓘ wartime emergency governing body ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	Soviet Union ⓘ
chairperson	Joseph Stalin ⓘ
country	Soviet Union ⓘ
dissolved	1945 ⓘ 1945-09-04 ⓘ
fieldOfWork	national defense ⓘ strategic planning ⓘ war economy management ⓘ
fullName	Gosudarstvenny Komitet Oborony Soyuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik ⓘ linked to: Gosudarstvenny Komitet Oborony SSSR
hasAuthorityOver	Red Army ⓘ Soviet Air Forces ⓘ Soviet Navy ⓘ Soviet defense industry ⓘ Soviet wartime economy ⓘ internal security organs ⓘ
headOfGovernment	Joseph Stalin ⓘ
headOfState	Joseph Stalin ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Moscow ⓘ
inception	1941-06-30 ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	Russian ⓘ
legalForm	extra-constitutional body ⓘ
locationOfFormation	Moscow ⓘ
member	Anastas Mikoyan ⓘ Georgy Malenkov ⓘ Joseph Stalin ⓘ Kliment Voroshilov ⓘ Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ Lazar Kaganovich ⓘ Nikolai Bulganin ⓘ Nikolai Voznesensky ⓘ Vyacheslav Molotov ⓘ
memberOf	Soviet government ⓘ
nativeLabel	Государственный комитет обороны СССР ⓘ linked to: Gosudarstvenny Komitet Oborony SSSR
purpose	centralization of all military power during World War II ⓘ centralization of economic management during World War II ⓘ centralization of political authority during World War II ⓘ
replaced	normal constitutional organs of Soviet power in wartime decision-making ⓘ
replacedBy	Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union ⓘ
role	supreme emergency governing body of the Soviet Union during World War II ⓘ
shortName	GKO ⓘ
significantEvent	Great Patriotic War ⓘ linked to: Soviet Union in World War II World War II ⓘ
subordinateTo	Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU ⓘ linked to: Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union State Defense Council of the USSR ⓘ linked to: Defense Council of the USSR
temporalCoverage	1941–1945 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited