Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy
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Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy was a Russian nobleman and military commander of the Napoleonic era, distinguished for his service in the Imperial Russian Army.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy canonical | 1 |
| Alexander Ostermann-Tolstoy | 1 |
| Count Ostermann-Tolstoy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T874380 — 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: Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy Context triple: [Tolstoy family, notableMember, Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy]
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A.
Alexei Tolstoy
Alexei Tolstoy was a prominent Russian writer and novelist known for his historical epics, science fiction works, and contributions to Soviet literature.
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B.
Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy
Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy was a prominent 19th-century Russian statesman and conservative reformer who served as Minister of Education and later as Minister of the Interior in the Russian Empire.
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C.
Pyotr Tolstoy
Pyotr Tolstoy is a Russian politician and television presenter, known as a prominent contemporary member of the historic Tolstoy family.
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D.
Ilya Tolstoy
Ilya Tolstoy was a member of the prominent Russian Tolstoy family, known primarily as a descendant of the famed writer Leo Tolstoy.
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E.
Fyodor Tolstoy
Fyodor Tolstoy was a Russian nobleman and artist from the prominent Tolstoy family, known for his work as a painter, engraver, and medalist in the early 19th century.
- 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: Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy Target entity description: Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy was a Russian nobleman and military commander of the Napoleonic era, distinguished for his service in the Imperial Russian Army.
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A.
Alexei Tolstoy
Alexei Tolstoy was a prominent Russian writer and novelist known for his historical epics, science fiction works, and contributions to Soviet literature.
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B.
Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy
Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy was a prominent 19th-century Russian statesman and conservative reformer who served as Minister of Education and later as Minister of the Interior in the Russian Empire.
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C.
Pyotr Tolstoy
Pyotr Tolstoy is a Russian politician and television presenter, known as a prominent contemporary member of the historic Tolstoy family.
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D.
Ilya Tolstoy
Ilya Tolstoy was a member of the prominent Russian Tolstoy family, known primarily as a descendant of the famed writer Leo Tolstoy.
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E.
Fyodor Tolstoy
Fyodor Tolstoy was a Russian nobleman and artist from the prominent Tolstoy family, known for his work as a painter, engraver, and medalist in the early 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Imperial Russian Army officer
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Russian nobleman ⓘ human ⓘ military commander ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| era | Napoleonic era ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Russians ⓘ |
| familyName | Ostermann-Tolstoy ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Alexander ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle |
Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Count Ostermann-Tolstoy
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| languageOfWorkOrName | Russian ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Imperial Russian Army ⓘ |
| militaryConflict |
French invasion of Russia
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War of the Sixth Coalition ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| nobleFamily |
Ostermann family
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Tolstoy family ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Count ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinguished service in the Imperial Russian Army
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leadership in battles against Napoleonic France ⓘ service in the Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
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soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| patronymicName | Ivanovich ⓘ |
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: Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy Description of subject: Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy was a Russian nobleman and military commander of the Napoleonic era, distinguished for his service in the Imperial Russian Army.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy
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hasHonorificTitle
→
Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Count Ostermann-Tolstoy
this entity surface form:
Alexander Ostermann-Tolstoy