Illia Polosukhin
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Illia Polosukhin is a Ukrainian AI researcher and entrepreneur best known as a co-author of the Transformer architecture and co-founder of the NEAR Protocol blockchain platform.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Illia Polosukhin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4651103 — 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: Illia Polosukhin Context triple: [Transformer, introducedBy, Illia Polosukhin]
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A.
Maxim Peshkov
Maxim Peshkov was the son of the renowned Russian writer Maksim Gorky.
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B.
Nikita Anisimov
Nikita Anisimov is a Russian academic and university administrator who serves as the rector of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow.
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C.
Maxim Afinogenov
Maxim Afinogenov is a Russian former professional ice hockey right winger best known for his speedy NHL career, primarily with the Buffalo Sabres.
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D.
Pavel Kadochnikov
Pavel Kadochnikov was a prominent Soviet film and theater actor known for his leading roles in classic Russian cinema of the mid-20th century.
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E.
Dmitry Chechulin
Dmitry Chechulin was a prominent Soviet architect known for his major contributions to Stalinist architecture and the design of several landmark buildings in Moscow.
- 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: Illia Polosukhin Target entity description: Illia Polosukhin is a Ukrainian AI researcher and entrepreneur best known as a co-author of the Transformer architecture and co-founder of the NEAR Protocol blockchain platform.
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A.
Maxim Peshkov
Maxim Peshkov was the son of the renowned Russian writer Maksim Gorky.
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B.
Nikita Anisimov
Nikita Anisimov is a Russian academic and university administrator who serves as the rector of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow.
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C.
Maxim Afinogenov
Maxim Afinogenov is a Russian former professional ice hockey right winger best known for his speedy NHL career, primarily with the Buffalo Sabres.
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D.
Pavel Kadochnikov
Pavel Kadochnikov was a prominent Soviet film and theater actor known for his leading roles in classic Russian cinema of the mid-20th century.
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E.
Dmitry Chechulin
Dmitry Chechulin was a prominent Soviet architect known for his major contributions to Stalinist architecture and the design of several landmark buildings in Moscow.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artificial intelligence researcher
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blockchain entrepreneur ⓘ computer scientist ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ person ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
developer-friendly blockchain platforms
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open web ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
NEAR Foundation
NERFINISHED
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Open Web ecosystem ⓘ |
| basedIn | San Francisco Bay Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | Attention Is All You Need NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounderOf |
NEAR Inc.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NEAR Protocol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo | Transformer architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | National Technical University of Ukraine Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Google ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
applied mathematics
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computer science ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
artificial intelligence
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blockchain technology ⓘ machine learning ⓘ natural language processing ⓘ |
| hasExpertise |
cryptoeconomics
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deep learning ⓘ distributed systems ⓘ |
| hasPublication | Attention Is All You Need NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
open-source contributor
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research engineer ⓘ software engineer ⓘ startup founder ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
development of smart contract platforms
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research on attention mechanisms in neural networks ⓘ research on sequence-to-sequence models ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-authoring the Transformer architecture
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co-founding NEAR Protocol ⓘ |
| nationality | Ukrainian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
design of scalable neural sequence models
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development of NEAR sharded proof-of-stake blockchain ⓘ |
| positionHeld | CEO of NEAR Inc. ⓘ |
| speaksLanguage |
English
NERFINISHED
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Russian ⓘ Ukrainian ⓘ |
| workLocation | Google Brain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Illia Polosukhin Description of subject: Illia Polosukhin is a Ukrainian AI researcher and entrepreneur best known as a co-author of the Transformer architecture and co-founder of the NEAR Protocol blockchain platform.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Łukasz Kaiser