Valeri Polyakov
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Valeri Polyakov was a Russian cosmonaut and physician renowned for holding the record for the longest single stay in space, spending over 14 months aboard the Mir space station.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Valeri Polyakov canonical | 3 |
| Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3049151 — 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: Valeri Polyakov Context triple: [Mir program, notableAstronautInvolved, Valeri Polyakov]
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A.
Sergei K. Krikalev
Sergei K. Krikalev is a renowned Russian cosmonaut and mechanical engineer known for his long-duration spaceflights and record-setting cumulative time spent in space.
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B.
Alexei Leonov
Alexei Leonov was a Soviet cosmonaut famed for performing the first spacewalk in history and later becoming a prominent figure in space exploration and its public outreach.
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C.
Vladimir Komarov
Vladimir Komarov was a Soviet cosmonaut and test pilot who became the first human to die during a spaceflight, perishing in the Soyuz 1 mission in 1967.
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D.
Oleksandr Kornienko
Oleksandr Kornienko is a Ukrainian politician who has held senior leadership roles in the Servant of the People party and in Ukraine’s parliament.
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E.
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, orbiting Earth on 12 April 1961 and becoming an international symbol of the Space Age.
- 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: Valeri Polyakov Target entity description: Valeri Polyakov was a Russian cosmonaut and physician renowned for holding the record for the longest single stay in space, spending over 14 months aboard the Mir space station.
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A.
Sergei K. Krikalev
Sergei K. Krikalev is a renowned Russian cosmonaut and mechanical engineer known for his long-duration spaceflights and record-setting cumulative time spent in space.
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B.
Alexei Leonov
Alexei Leonov was a Soviet cosmonaut famed for performing the first spacewalk in history and later becoming a prominent figure in space exploration and its public outreach.
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C.
Vladimir Komarov
Vladimir Komarov was a Soviet cosmonaut and test pilot who became the first human to die during a spaceflight, perishing in the Soyuz 1 mission in 1967.
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D.
Oleksandr Kornienko
Oleksandr Kornienko is a Ukrainian politician who has held senior leadership roles in the Servant of the People party and in Ukraine’s parliament.
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E.
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, orbiting Earth on 12 April 1961 and becoming an international symbol of the Space Age.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Valeri Polyakov Description of subject: Valeri Polyakov was a Russian cosmonaut and physician renowned for holding the record for the longest single stay in space, spending over 14 months aboard the Mir space station.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov