Godunov
E260922
Godunov is a Russian surname most famously associated with Boris Godunov, the tsar who ruled Russia at the turn of the 17th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Godunov canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2386530 — 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: Godunov Context triple: [Boris Godunov, familyName, Godunov]
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A.
Dmitry Yazov
Dmitry Yazov was the last Marshal of the Soviet Union and Minister of Defense, known for his role in the failed August 1991 Soviet coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
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B.
Leonid
Leonid is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, notably borne by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
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C.
Vyacheslav
Vyacheslav is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, most notably borne by Soviet politician Vyacheslav Molotov.
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D.
Raskob
Raskob is a surname most notably associated with John J. Raskob, the American businessman and key figure behind the development of the Empire State Building.
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E.
Pozdnyshev
Pozdnyshev is the tormented, jealous husband and central narrator of Leo Tolstoy’s novella "The Kreutzer Sonata," whose confession of murdering his wife drives the story’s exploration of marriage, sexuality, and morality.
- 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: Godunov Target entity description: Godunov is a Russian surname most famously associated with Boris Godunov, the tsar who ruled Russia at the turn of the 17th century.
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A.
Dmitry Yazov
Dmitry Yazov was the last Marshal of the Soviet Union and Minister of Defense, known for his role in the failed August 1991 Soviet coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
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B.
Leonid
Leonid is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, notably borne by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
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C.
Vyacheslav
Vyacheslav is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, most notably borne by Soviet politician Vyacheslav Molotov.
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D.
Raskob
Raskob is a surname most notably associated with John J. Raskob, the American businessman and key figure behind the development of the Empire State Building.
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E.
Pozdnyshev
Pozdnyshev is the tormented, jealous husband and central narrator of Leo Tolstoy’s novella "The Kreutzer Sonata," whose confession of murdering his wife drives the story’s exploration of marriage, sexuality, and morality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Russian-language surname
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Tsar of Russia ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithCountry | Russia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Russia ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Godunov dynasty
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surface form:
Godunov family
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| etymologicalOrigin | Russian given name or nickname Godun ⓘ |
| familyName |
Godunov
self-linksurface differs
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Godunov self-linksurface differs ⓘ Godunov self-linksurface differs ⓘ Godunov self-linksurface differs ⓘ Godunov self-linksurface differs ⓘ Godunov self-linksurface differs ⓘ Godunova ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | applied mathematics ⓘ |
| hasFeminineForm | Godunova ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Alexander Godunov
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surface form:
Aleksandr B. Godunov
Alexander Godunov ⓘ
surface form:
Aleksandr P. Godunov
Boris Godunov ⓘ
surface form:
Boris G. Godunov
Boris Godunov ⓘ Fyodor Godunov ⓘ Irina Godunova ⓘ Nikolai Godunov ⓘ Sergei K. Godunov ⓘ |
| hasVariantTransliteration |
Godunov's method
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surface form:
Godounov
Godunoff ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Russian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Godunov's method
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surface form:
Godunov's scheme
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| notableInContext |
Russian history
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Russian politics ⓘ Russian science ⓘ performing arts ⓘ |
| occupation |
ballet dancer
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film actor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Tsar of Russia ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1605 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1598 ⓘ |
| usedAsFamilyNameSinceCentury | 16th century ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Cyrillic script ⓘ |
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: Godunov Description of subject: Godunov is a Russian surname most famously associated with Boris Godunov, the tsar who ruled Russia at the turn of the 17th century.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Boris Godunov
subject surface form:
Fyodor Godunov
subject surface form:
Sergei K. Godunov
subject surface form:
Aleksandr P. Godunov
subject surface form:
Nikolai Godunov
subject surface form:
Boris G. Godunov