Viktor Korchnoi
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Viktor Korchnoi was a Soviet-born Swiss chess grandmaster renowned as one of the strongest players never to become world champion and for his fierce, uncompromising style over several decades at the top level.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15082251 — 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: Viktor Korchnoi Context triple: [Jonathan Penrose, playedAgainst, Viktor Korchnoi]
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Anatoly Karpov
Anatoly Karpov is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion renowned for his positional style and his long, historic rivalry with Garry Kasparov.
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Mikhail Tal
Mikhail Tal was a Latvian-Soviet chess grandmaster and World Chess Champion renowned for his wildly imaginative, sacrificial attacking style and status as one of the greatest tacticians in chess history.
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C.
Boris Spassky
Boris Spassky is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion, best known for his 1972 title match against Bobby Fischer.
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D.
Mikhail Botvinnik
Mikhail Botvinnik was a Soviet chess grandmaster and World Chess Champion widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential players in chess history.
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E.
General Vladimir Korchnoi
General Vladimir Korchnoi is a high-ranking Russian intelligence officer and key supporting figure in Jason Matthews’ espionage novel "Red Sparrow."
- 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: Viktor Korchnoi Target entity description: Viktor Korchnoi was a Soviet-born Swiss chess grandmaster renowned as one of the strongest players never to become world champion and for his fierce, uncompromising style over several decades at the top level.
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A.
Anatoly Karpov
Anatoly Karpov is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion renowned for his positional style and his long, historic rivalry with Garry Kasparov.
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B.
Mikhail Tal
Mikhail Tal was a Latvian-Soviet chess grandmaster and World Chess Champion renowned for his wildly imaginative, sacrificial attacking style and status as one of the greatest tacticians in chess history.
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C.
Boris Spassky
Boris Spassky is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion, best known for his 1972 title match against Bobby Fischer.
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D.
Mikhail Botvinnik
Mikhail Botvinnik was a Soviet chess grandmaster and World Chess Champion widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential players in chess history.
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E.
General Vladimir Korchnoi
General Vladimir Korchnoi is a high-ranking Russian intelligence officer and key supporting figure in Jason Matthews’ espionage novel "Red Sparrow."
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.