Jan Syrový
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Jan Syrový was a Czechoslovak army general and politician who briefly served as prime minister during the critical period following the Munich Agreement in 1938.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jan Syrový canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T767068 — 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: Jan Syrový Context triple: [Second Czechoslovak Republic government, headOfGovernment, Jan Syrový]
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A.
Miroslav Ondříček
Miroslav Ondříček was a renowned Czech cinematographer known for his collaborations with director Miloš Forman on films such as "Amadeus" and "Ragtime."
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B.
Roman Čechmánek
Roman Čechmánek was a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender who starred in international play for the Czech national team and later played in the NHL, most notably for the Philadelphia Flyers.
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C.
Jiří Holík
Jiří Holík is a former Czechoslovak ice hockey forward renowned as one of his country's greatest players, known for his scoring ability and success in international competition during the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Oldřich Černík
Oldřich Černík was a Czechoslovak communist politician who served as prime minister and became one of the prominent reformist leaders during the Prague Spring of 1968.
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E.
Vladimír Dzurilla
Vladimír Dzurilla was a legendary Czechoslovak ice hockey goaltender, widely regarded as one of the best European goalies of his era and a key figure in international competitions during the 1960s and 1970s.
- 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: Jan Syrový Target entity description: Jan Syrový was a Czechoslovak army general and politician who briefly served as prime minister during the critical period following the Munich Agreement in 1938.
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A.
Miroslav Ondříček
Miroslav Ondříček was a renowned Czech cinematographer known for his collaborations with director Miloš Forman on films such as "Amadeus" and "Ragtime."
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B.
Roman Čechmánek
Roman Čechmánek was a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender who starred in international play for the Czech national team and later played in the NHL, most notably for the Philadelphia Flyers.
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C.
Jiří Holík
Jiří Holík is a former Czechoslovak ice hockey forward renowned as one of his country's greatest players, known for his scoring ability and success in international competition during the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Oldřich Černík
Oldřich Černík was a Czechoslovak communist politician who served as prime minister and became one of the prominent reformist leaders during the Prague Spring of 1968.
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E.
Vladimír Dzurilla
Vladimír Dzurilla was a legendary Czechoslovak ice hockey goaltender, widely regarded as one of the best European goalies of his era and a key figure in international competitions during the 1960s and 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Czechoslovak general
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ prime minister ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Prague ⓘ |
| conflict |
Russian Civil War
ⓘ
World War I ⓘ |
| convictedOf | collaboration with the enemy ⓘ |
| convictionStatus | later rehabilitated ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Austro-Hungarian Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Austria-Hungary
Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1888-01-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1970-10-17 ⓘ |
| endTime | 1938-12-01 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Czech ⓘ |
| eyeInjury | lost one eye in World War I ⓘ |
| familyName | Syrový ⓘ |
| givenName | Jan ⓘ |
| headOfGovernment |
Second Czechoslovak Republic
ⓘ
surface form:
Czechoslovakia
|
| historicalEvent | Munich Agreement ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | interwar period ⓘ |
| imprisonedIn | Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Czechoslovak Legion
ⓘ
surface form:
Czechoslovak Legion in Russia
|
| militaryBranch |
Czechoslovak Army
ⓘ
Czechoslovak Legion ⓘ |
| militaryRank | army general ⓘ |
| name | Jan Syrový self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Czech ⓘ |
| notableFor |
command in the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia
ⓘ
service as Czechoslovak prime minister in 1938 ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of Czechoslovakia during the Munich crisis ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Czechoslovak Legion
ⓘ
surface form:
Czechoslovak Legion in Russia
|
| placeOfBirth |
Margraviate of Moravia
ⓘ
Třebíč ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Czechoslovakia
ⓘ
Prague ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief of the General Staff of the Czechoslovak Army
ⓘ
Minister of National Defence of Czechoslovakia ⓘ Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Prague ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | prime minister of Czechoslovakia during aftermath of Munich Agreement ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| startTime | 1938-09-22 ⓘ |
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: Jan Syrový Description of subject: Jan Syrový was a Czechoslovak army general and politician who briefly served as prime minister during the critical period following the Munich Agreement in 1938.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.