Yagoda
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Yagoda is a Russian surname most notably associated with Genrikh Yagoda, a Soviet secret police official and early head of the NKVD under Joseph Stalin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yagoda canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5020070 — 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: Yagoda Context triple: [Genrikh Yagoda, familyName, Yagoda]
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A.
Zhores
Zhores is a given name most notably borne by Nobel Prize–winning physicist Zhores Alferov.
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B.
Pozdnyshev
Pozdnyshev is the tormented, jealous husband and central narrator of Leo Tolstoy’s novella "The Kreutzer Sonata," whose confession of murdering his wife drives the story’s exploration of marriage, sexuality, and morality.
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C.
Ossip
Ossip is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, notably borne by pianist and conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch.
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D.
Maychew
Maychew is a town in northern Ethiopia known as a local commercial and administrative center within the Tigray highlands.
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E.
Kuzma
Kuzma is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, historically borne by notable figures such as the Russian national hero Kuzma Minin.
- 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: Yagoda Target entity description: Yagoda is a Russian surname most notably associated with Genrikh Yagoda, a Soviet secret police official and early head of the NKVD under Joseph Stalin.
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A.
Zhores
Zhores is a given name most notably borne by Nobel Prize–winning physicist Zhores Alferov.
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B.
Pozdnyshev
Pozdnyshev is the tormented, jealous husband and central narrator of Leo Tolstoy’s novella "The Kreutzer Sonata," whose confession of murdering his wife drives the story’s exploration of marriage, sexuality, and morality.
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C.
Ossip
Ossip is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, notably borne by pianist and conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch.
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D.
Maychew
Maychew is a town in northern Ethiopia known as a local commercial and administrative center within the Tigray highlands.
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E.
Kuzma
Kuzma is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, historically borne by notable figures such as the Russian national hero Kuzma Minin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Russian-language surname
ⓘ
Soviet politician ⓘ human ⓘ secret police official ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| allegiance | Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Joseph Stalin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
espionage
ⓘ
terrorism ⓘ treason ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1891-11-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1938-03-15 ⓘ |
| employer |
NKVD
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
OGPU NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
political repression
ⓘ
state security ⓘ |
| genreOfActivity | secret police operations ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Russian ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution by shooting ⓘ |
| memberOf | Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Genrikh Yagoda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
arrest during Great Purge
ⓘ
show trial in 1938 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership of Soviet secret police
ⓘ
role in early Stalinist purges ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Great Purge
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Moscow Trials NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Rybinsk
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yaroslavl Governorate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Moscow ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
People's Commissar for Internal Affairs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
head of the NKVD ⓘ |
| predecessor | Vyacheslav Menzhinsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Moscow ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Joseph Stalin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Nikolai Yezhov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Moscow ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Cyrillic script ⓘ |
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: Yagoda Description of subject: Yagoda is a Russian surname most notably associated with Genrikh Yagoda, a Soviet secret police official and early head of the NKVD under Joseph Stalin.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.