Genrikh Yagoda

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NKVD officer Soviet politician human perpetrator of political repression secret police official

Genrikh Yagoda was a Soviet secret police official who headed the NKVD during the early stages of Stalin’s Great Purge before himself being arrested and executed.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Genrikh Yagoda canonical	11
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda	1
Генрих Григорьевич Ягода	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T702975 — 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: Genrikh Yagoda
Context triple: [NKVD, notableLeader, Genrikh Yagoda]

A. Yakov Sverdlov
Yakov Sverdlov was a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary and early Soviet statesman who served as the first head of state of Soviet Russia following the October Revolution.
B. Grigory Zinoviev
Grigory Zinoviev was a prominent early Bolshevik leader, close associate of Lenin, and later a key victim of Stalin’s Great Purge, executed after a major show trial.
C. Sergei Kamenev
Sergei Kamenev was a prominent Soviet military commander who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
D. Andrei Zhdanov
Andrei Zhdanov was a prominent Soviet politician and close associate of Joseph Stalin, known for shaping postwar cultural policy and leading major party organizations before his death in 1948.
E. Lev Kamenev
Lev Kamenev was a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary and early Soviet political leader who became one of the principal defendants in Stalin’s first major show trial during the Great Purge.
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: Genrikh Yagoda
Target entity description: Genrikh Yagoda was a Soviet secret police official who headed the NKVD during the early stages of Stalin’s Great Purge before himself being arrested and executed.

A. Yakov Sverdlov
Yakov Sverdlov was a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary and early Soviet statesman who served as the first head of state of Soviet Russia following the October Revolution.
B. Grigory Zinoviev
Grigory Zinoviev was a prominent early Bolshevik leader, close associate of Lenin, and later a key victim of Stalin’s Great Purge, executed after a major show trial.
C. Sergei Kamenev
Sergei Kamenev was a prominent Soviet military commander who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
D. Andrei Zhdanov
Andrei Zhdanov was a prominent Soviet politician and close associate of Joseph Stalin, known for shaping postwar cultural policy and leading major party organizations before his death in 1948.
E. Lev Kamenev
Lev Kamenev was a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary and early Soviet political leader who became one of the principal defendants in Stalin’s first major show trial during the Great Purge.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	NKVD officer ⓘ Soviet politician ⓘ human ⓘ perpetrator of political repression ⓘ secret police official ⓘ
appointedBy	Joseph Stalin ⓘ
arrestedIn	1937 ⓘ
birthDate	1891-11-07 ⓘ
causeOfDeath	execution by shooting ⓘ
convictedOf	espionage ⓘ sabotage ⓘ terrorism ⓘ treason ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Russian Empire ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ
deathDate	1938-03-15 ⓘ
endTime	as head of NKVD: 1936 ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Jewish ⓘ
executedIn	1938 ⓘ
familyName	Yagoda ⓘ
fullName	Genrikh Yagoda self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda
givenName	Genrikh ⓘ
memberOf	Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Cheka ⓘ GPU ⓘ NKVD ⓘ GPU ⓘ surface form: OGPU
methodOfExecution	shooting ⓘ
nativeName	Genrikh Yagoda self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Генрих Григорьевич Ягода
notableEvent	Great Purge ⓘ Moscow Trials ⓘ surface form: Moscow show trials
notableFor	being purged and executed during the Great Purge himself ⓘ heading the NKVD during the early stages of Stalin's Great Purge ⓘ
notableWork	organization of early stages of the Great Purge ⓘ
occupation	secret police officer ⓘ state security official ⓘ
participantIn	collectivization-related repression ⓘ construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal ⓘ political repression in the Soviet Union ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Russian Empire ⓘ Rybinsk ⓘ Yaroslavl Oblast ⓘ surface form: Yaroslavl Governorate
placeOfDeath	Moscow ⓘ Russian SFSR ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ
positionHeld	People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR ⓘ head of OGPU ⓘ head of the NKVD ⓘ
replacedBy	Nikolai Yezhov ⓘ
startTime	as head of NKVD: 1934 ⓘ
trial	Trial of the Twenty-One ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

NKVD → notableLeader → Genrikh Yagoda ⓘ

Trial of the Twenty-One → defendant → Genrikh Yagoda ⓘ

Nikolai Yezhov → replaced → Genrikh Yagoda ⓘ

Genrikh Yagoda → fullName → Genrikh Yagoda self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda

Genrikh Yagoda → nativeName → Genrikh Yagoda self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Генрих Григорьевич Ягода

Moscow Trials → defendant → Genrikh Yagoda ⓘ

Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites" → hasDefendant → Genrikh Yagoda ⓘ

People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR → notableOfficeHolder → Genrikh Yagoda ⓘ

People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the RSFSR → officeHeldBy → Genrikh Yagoda ⓘ

Vyacheslav Menzhinsky → replacedBy → Genrikh Yagoda ⓘ

Extraordinary Commission → notableMember → Genrikh Yagoda ⓘ

NKWD → employerOf → Genrikh Yagoda ⓘ

subject surface form: NKVD

NKWD → notableCommander → Genrikh Yagoda ⓘ