Gennady Yanayev
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Gennady Yanayev was a Soviet politician who served as the USSR’s first and only vice president and became a key leader of the failed August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gennady Yanayev canonical | 11 |
| Gennady Yanaev | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T315771 — 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: Gennady Yanayev Context triple: [August 1991 Soviet coup attempt, hasParticipant, Gennady Yanayev]
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A.
Yuri Andropov
Yuri Andropov was a Soviet politician and former KGB chief who briefly led the USSR in the early 1980s during a period of political stagnation and Cold War tensions.
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B.
Mikhail Suslov
Mikhail Suslov was a powerful Soviet politician and chief ideologue of the Communist Party, known as one of the principal architects of postwar Soviet orthodoxy and policy.
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C.
Konstantin Chernenko
Konstantin Chernenko was a Soviet politician who briefly led the USSR as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1984 until his death in 1985, during the final years of the Cold War.
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D.
Nikolai Ryzhkov
Nikolai Ryzhkov is a Soviet statesman and politician who served as the last full-term head of government of the Soviet Union during the late 1980s under Mikhail Gorbachev.
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E.
Alexei Kosygin
Alexei Kosygin was a Soviet statesman who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Premier) of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1980 and was a key figure in economic policy and reforms during the Brezhnev era.
- 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: Gennady Yanayev Target entity description: Gennady Yanayev was a Soviet politician who served as the USSR’s first and only vice president and became a key leader of the failed August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
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A.
Yuri Andropov
Yuri Andropov was a Soviet politician and former KGB chief who briefly led the USSR in the early 1980s during a period of political stagnation and Cold War tensions.
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B.
Mikhail Suslov
Mikhail Suslov was a powerful Soviet politician and chief ideologue of the Communist Party, known as one of the principal architects of postwar Soviet orthodoxy and policy.
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C.
Konstantin Chernenko
Konstantin Chernenko was a Soviet politician who briefly led the USSR as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1984 until his death in 1985, during the final years of the Cold War.
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D.
Nikolai Ryzhkov
Nikolai Ryzhkov is a Soviet statesman and politician who served as the last full-term head of government of the Soviet Union during the late 1980s under Mikhail Gorbachev.
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E.
Alexei Kosygin
Alexei Kosygin was a Soviet statesman who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Premier) of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1980 and was a key figure in economic policy and reforms during the Brezhnev era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soviet politician
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human ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith |
State Committee on the State of Emergency in the USSR
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surface form:
State Committee on the State of Emergency
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| associatedWith |
Soviet government
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Soviet security and party apparatus ⓘ All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions ⓘ
surface form:
Soviet trade unions
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| countryOfCitizenship | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| employer |
Soviet government
ⓘ
surface form:
Government of the Soviet Union
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| familyName | Yanayev ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
politics
ⓘ
trade unionism ⓘ |
| givenName | Gennady ⓘ |
| hasCauseOfNotability | being the first and only vice president of the USSR ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Russian ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | symbol of the failed hardline resistance to Soviet reforms ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Soviet statesman ⓘ |
| hasPoliticalRole | conservative opponent of Gorbachev’s reforms ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
coup plotter
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last vice head of state of the USSR ⓘ |
| ideology | Marxism–Leninism ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Russian ⓘ |
| memberOf | Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading role in the August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev ⓘ |
| notableWork | public declarations during the August 1991 coup ⓘ |
| officeContested | leadership of the Soviet Union during August 1991 coup ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Boris Yeltsin
ⓘ
Mikhail Gorbachev ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
August 1991 Soviet coup attempt
ⓘ
surface form:
1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt
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| partOf | Soviet leadership during the late perestroika period ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | hardline communist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions
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Vice President of the Soviet Union ⓘ member of the Politburo of the CPSU ⓘ |
| residence | Moscow ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | self-declared acting president of the USSR during August 1991 coup ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
collapse of the August 1991 coup
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disintegration of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late Soviet period ⓘ |
| workLocation | Moscow ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Gennady Yanayev Description of subject: Gennady Yanayev was a Soviet politician who served as the USSR’s first and only vice president and became a key leader of the failed August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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officeHeldBy
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Gennady Yanayev
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this entity surface form:
Gennady Yanaev