Yakov Sverdlov
E38200
Yakov Sverdlov was a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary and early Soviet statesman who served as the first head of state of Soviet Russia following the October Revolution.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yakov Sverdlov canonical | 13 |
| Yakov Sverdlov (as Sverdlovsk) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T86985 — 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: Yakov Sverdlov Context triple: [Kremlin Wall Necropolis, notableBurial, Yakov Sverdlov]
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A.
Andrei Zhdanov
Andrei Zhdanov was a prominent Soviet politician and close associate of Joseph Stalin, known for shaping postwar cultural policy and leading major party organizations before his death in 1948.
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B.
Mikhail Kalinin
Mikhail Kalinin was a Soviet politician and titular head of state of the USSR from the 1920s to the early 1940s, serving as a prominent Bolshevik figure close to Joseph Stalin.
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C.
Nikolai Bukharin
Nikolai Bukharin was a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary, Marxist theorist, and Soviet politician who played a leading role in the early Soviet state before being executed during Stalin’s Great Purge.
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D.
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky was a Marxist revolutionary, key leader of the Russian Revolution, founder of the Red Army, and later a principal critic and exile of Stalinist rule.
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E.
Kliment Voroshilov
Kliment Voroshilov was a prominent Soviet military commander and politician who served as one of the original five Marshals of the Soviet Union and later as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
- 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: Yakov Sverdlov Target entity description: Yakov Sverdlov was a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary and early Soviet statesman who served as the first head of state of Soviet Russia following the October Revolution.
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A.
Andrei Zhdanov
Andrei Zhdanov was a prominent Soviet politician and close associate of Joseph Stalin, known for shaping postwar cultural policy and leading major party organizations before his death in 1948.
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B.
Mikhail Kalinin
Mikhail Kalinin was a Soviet politician and titular head of state of the USSR from the 1920s to the early 1940s, serving as a prominent Bolshevik figure close to Joseph Stalin.
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C.
Nikolai Bukharin
Nikolai Bukharin was a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary, Marxist theorist, and Soviet politician who played a leading role in the early Soviet state before being executed during Stalin’s Great Purge.
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D.
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky was a Marxist revolutionary, key leader of the Russian Revolution, founder of the Red Army, and later a principal critic and exile of Stalinist rule.
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E.
Kliment Voroshilov
Kliment Voroshilov was a prominent Soviet military commander and politician who served as one of the original five Marshals of the Soviet Union and later as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bolshevik
ⓘ
Soviet statesman ⓘ human ⓘ revolutionary ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Kremlin Wall Necropolis ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | Spanish flu ⓘ |
| child | Andrei Sverdlov ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Russian Empire
ⓘ
Russian SFSR ⓘ
surface form:
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
|
| dateOfBirth | 1885-06-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1919-03-16 ⓘ |
| era | early Soviet period ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName | Sverdlov ⓘ |
| father | Mikhail Sverdlov ⓘ |
| givenName | Yakov ⓘ |
| headOfGovernment |
Council of People's Commissars
ⓘ
surface form:
Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR
|
| ideology | Bolshevism ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Russian ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
ⓘ
surface form:
Bolshevik faction
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) ⓘ
surface form:
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) ⓘ
surface form:
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) ⓘ |
| movement |
Marxism
ⓘ
communism ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Yekaterinburg
ⓘ
surface form:
city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg)
|
| notableWork |
consolidation of Soviet power after October Revolution
ⓘ
organization of Bolshevik Party apparatus ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Russian Revolution
ⓘ
surface form:
October Revolution
Russian Civil War ⓘ Russian Revolution ⓘ
surface form:
Russian Revolution of 1917
|
| placeOfBirth |
Nizhny Novgorod
ⓘ
Russian Empire ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Moscow
ⓘ
Russian SFSR ⓘ
surface form:
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
|
| politicalParty |
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
ⓘ
surface form:
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
|
| positionHeld |
Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee
ⓘ
de facto head of state of Soviet Russia ⓘ |
| religion | atheism ⓘ |
| residence |
Yekaterinburg
ⓘ
surface form:
Ekaterinburg
Moscow ⓘ Nizhny Novgorod ⓘ Leningrad ⓘ
surface form:
Petrograd
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Andrei Sverdlov
ⓘ
surface form:
Veniamin Sverdlov
|
| significantEvent |
arrest and exile under the Tsarist regime
ⓘ
election as Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee in 1917 ⓘ |
| spouse | Klavdiya Sverdlova ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Moscow
ⓘ
Leningrad ⓘ
surface form:
Petrograd
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Yakov Sverdlov Description of subject: Yakov Sverdlov was a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary and early Soviet statesman who served as the first head of state of Soviet Russia following the October Revolution.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yakov Sverdlov (as Sverdlovsk)