Karla
E243971
Karla is the elusive Soviet spymaster and primary antagonist of John le Carré’s George Smiley novels, symbolizing the Cold War espionage rivalry between British intelligence and the KGB.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Karla canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2217686 — 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: Karla Context triple: [George Smiley, notableEnemy, Karla]
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A.
Karin
Karin is a feminine given name used in various cultures, often considered a variant of names like Karen or Katherine.
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B.
Carla
Carla is a feminine given name commonly used in various languages, often considered the female form of Carl or Charles.
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C.
Sonya
Sonya is a gentle, selfless young woman in Leo Tolstoy’s novel "War and Peace," known for her unrequited love and quiet loyalty to the Rostov family.
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D.
Lucia
Lucia is a feminine given name of Latin origin, commonly associated with light and used in various European cultures.
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E.
Rosalinda
Rosalinda is a feminine given name of Spanish and Italian origin, often interpreted to mean "beautiful rose."
- 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: Karla Target entity description: Karla is the elusive Soviet spymaster and primary antagonist of John le Carré’s George Smiley novels, symbolizing the Cold War espionage rivalry between British intelligence and the KGB.
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A.
Karin
Karin is a feminine given name used in various cultures, often considered a variant of names like Karen or Katherine.
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B.
Carla
Carla is a feminine given name commonly used in various languages, often considered the female form of Carl or Charles.
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C.
Sonya
Sonya is a gentle, selfless young woman in Leo Tolstoy’s novel "War and Peace," known for her unrequited love and quiet loyalty to the Rostov family.
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D.
Lucia
Lucia is a feminine given name of Latin origin, commonly associated with light and used in various European cultures.
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E.
Rosalinda
Rosalinda is a feminine given name of Spanish and Italian origin, often interpreted to mean "beautiful rose."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
KGB officer
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Soviet intelligence officer ⓘ antagonist ⓘ fictional character ⓘ spymaster ⓘ |
| adversaryOf | British intelligence ⓘ |
| affiliation | KGB ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Smiley’s People (novel)
ⓘ
surface form:
Smiley’s People
The Honourable Schoolboy ⓘ Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (novel) ⓘ
surface form:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
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| controls | Karla network ⓘ |
| country | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| creator | John le Carré ⓘ |
| enemyOf | George Smiley ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (novel)
ⓘ
surface form:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
|
| genre | spy fiction ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse | John le Carré novels ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| narrativeUniverse | George Smiley universe ⓘ |
| notableFor |
elusiveness
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strategic brilliance ⓘ |
| occupation |
intelligence officer
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spymaster ⓘ |
| operatesDuring | Cold War ⓘ |
| partOf | George Smiley series ⓘ |
| role | primary antagonist of George Smiley ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Cold War espionage rivalry
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conflict between British intelligence and the KGB ⓘ |
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: Karla Description of subject: Karla is the elusive Soviet spymaster and primary antagonist of John le Carré’s George Smiley novels, symbolizing the Cold War espionage rivalry between British intelligence and the KGB.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Smiley’s People
subject surface form:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy