Alexander Godunov
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Alexander Godunov was a Russian-American ballet dancer and actor best known in film for his memorable villainous role in the action classic "Die Hard."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alexander Godunov canonical | 2 |
| Aleksandr B. Godunov | 1 |
| Aleksandr P. Godunov | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4356064 — 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 Godunov Context triple: [Die Hard, starring, Alexander Godunov]
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A.
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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B.
Sergei Khrushchev
Sergei Khrushchev was a Soviet-born engineer and academic who later became a naturalized American citizen and noted commentator on Cold War history, known also as the son of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
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C.
Yuri Brezhnev
Yuri Brezhnev is the son of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, known primarily for his familial connection to the longtime General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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D.
Dmitry Ustinov
Dmitry Ustinov was a prominent Soviet military and political leader who served as Minister of Defence and was a key figure in shaping Soviet defense and military-industrial policy during the Cold War.
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E.
Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Brezhnev was a long-serving Soviet leader whose tenure from the mid-1960s to early 1980s was marked by political stability, military buildup, and economic stagnation often referred to as the “Era of Stagnation.”
- 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 Godunov Target entity description: Alexander Godunov was a Russian-American ballet dancer and actor best known in film for his memorable villainous role in the action classic "Die Hard."
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A.
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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B.
Sergei Khrushchev
Sergei Khrushchev was a Soviet-born engineer and academic who later became a naturalized American citizen and noted commentator on Cold War history, known also as the son of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
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C.
Yuri Brezhnev
Yuri Brezhnev is the son of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, known primarily for his familial connection to the longtime General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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D.
Dmitry Ustinov
Dmitry Ustinov was a prominent Soviet military and political leader who served as Minister of Defence and was a key figure in shaping Soviet defense and military-industrial policy during the Cold War.
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E.
Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Brezhnev was a long-serving Soviet leader whose tenure from the mid-1960s to early 1980s was marked by political stability, military buildup, and economic stagnation often referred to as the “Era of Stagnation.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Russian American
ⓘ
ballet dancer ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsInDance | 1960s–1980s ⓘ |
| activeYearsInFilm | 1985–1995 ⓘ |
| birthName | Aleksandr Borisovich Godunov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications of chronic alcoholism ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Soviet Union
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-11-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1995-05-18 ⓘ |
| defectedFrom | Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| defectedTo | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Bolshoi Ballet School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Russian ⓘ |
| eyeColor | blue ⓘ |
| familyName | Godunov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | ballet ⓘ |
| givenName | Alexander ⓘ |
| hairColor | blond ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Ballet Theatre
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bolshoi Ballet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | classical ballet ⓘ |
| name | Alexander Godunov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| notableFor | villainous role in Die Hard ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Anna
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Die Hard NERFINISHED ⓘ The Money Pit NERFINISHED ⓘ Witness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
ballet dancer ⓘ choreographer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Sakhalin Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sakhalin Oblast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| portrayedCharacter |
Daniel Hochleitner in Witness
ⓘ
Karl in Die Hard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Lyudmila Vlasova NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith | Mikhail Baryshnikov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfDefection | 1979 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Godunov Description of subject: Alexander Godunov was a Russian-American ballet dancer and actor best known in film for his memorable villainous role in the action classic "Die Hard."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Die Hard
this entity surface form:
Aleksandr P. Godunov
this entity surface form:
Aleksandr B. Godunov