False Dmitry I
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False Dmitry I was a pretender to the Russian throne who briefly ruled as tsar from 1605 to 1606 during the Time of Troubles before being overthrown and killed.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| False Dmitry I canonical | 20 |
| False Dmitry | 1 |
| False Dmitry I as her son | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T382637 — 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: False Dmitry I Context triple: [Time of Troubles, significantPerson, False Dmitry I]
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A.
Yuri
Yuri is a common Russian given name, famously borne by Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into outer space.
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B.
Mikhail
Mikhail is a common Russian male given name, famously borne by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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C.
Handsome Dan
Handsome Dan is the live bulldog mascot and enduring symbol of Yale University's athletic teams and school spirit.
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D.
Andrei
Andrei is a masculine given name commonly used in Slavic and Eastern European countries, equivalent to the English name Andrew.
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E.
Bader
Bader is the maiden surname of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice and pioneering advocate for gender equality.
- 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: False Dmitry I Target entity description: False Dmitry I was a pretender to the Russian throne who briefly ruled as tsar from 1605 to 1606 during the Time of Troubles before being overthrown and killed.
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A.
Yuri
Yuri is a common Russian given name, famously borne by Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into outer space.
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B.
Mikhail
Mikhail is a common Russian male given name, famously borne by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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C.
Handsome Dan
Handsome Dan is the live bulldog mascot and enduring symbol of Yale University's athletic teams and school spirit.
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D.
Andrei
Andrei is a masculine given name commonly used in Slavic and Eastern European countries, equivalent to the English name Andrew.
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E.
Bader
Bader is the maiden surname of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice and pioneering advocate for gender equality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tsar of Russia
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ pretender to the throne ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Dmitry the Impostor
ⓘ
Lzhedmitry I ⓘ Pseudodemetrius I ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Time of Troubles ⓘ |
| bodyMistreated | corpse burned and ashes fired from a cannon ⓘ |
| cameToPowerBy | overthrow of Tsar Boris Godunov’s dynasty ⓘ |
| capitalDuringReign | Moscow ⓘ |
| causeOfDownfall |
boyar resentment of foreign influence
ⓘ
widespread doubts about his true identity ⓘ |
| claimedIdentity | Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich ⓘ |
| claimedParent |
Ivan IV the Terrible
ⓘ
Maria Nagaya ⓘ |
| coronationPlace |
Dormition Cathedral
ⓘ
surface form:
Dormition Cathedral, Moscow Kremlin
|
| coronationYear | 1605 ⓘ |
| countryOfRule | Tsardom of Russia ⓘ |
| deathCause | assassination ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1606-05-17 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Moscow ⓘ |
| era | early 17th century ⓘ |
| historicalDebate | true origin and identity remain uncertain ⓘ |
| linkedTo |
Polish intervention in Russia
ⓘ
dynastic crisis after the death of Feodor I ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first and most successful of the False Dmitrys ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Patriarch Hermogenes
ⓘ
Russian boyars ⓘ Vasili IV Shuisky ⓘ
surface form:
Vasily Shuisky
|
| overthrownBy |
boyar coup
ⓘ
supporters of Vasily Shuisky ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Moscow ⓘ |
| policy |
favored Polish and foreign advisers at court
ⓘ
promised concessions to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ⓘ showed relative tolerance toward Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| predecessor | Feodor II of Russia ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1606 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1605 ⓘ |
| religion |
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Orthodoxy
|
| spouse | Marina Mniszech ⓘ |
| succeededTitle | Tsar and Grand Prince of all Rus’ ⓘ |
| successor |
Vasili IV Shuisky
ⓘ
surface form:
Vasily IV of Russia
|
| supportedBy |
Jerzy Mniszech
ⓘ
szlachta ⓘ
surface form:
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth nobles
szlachta ⓘ
surface form:
Polish–Lithuanian magnates
some Jesuit missionaries ⓘ |
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: False Dmitry I Description of subject: False Dmitry I was a pretender to the Russian throne who briefly ruled as tsar from 1605 to 1606 during the Time of Troubles before being overthrown and killed.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Boris Godunov (play)
this entity surface form:
False Dmitry
subject surface form:
Grigori Otrepyev
this entity surface form:
False Dmitry I as her son
subject surface form:
Dmitry Ivanovich