Dmitry Yazov
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Dmitry Yazov was the last Marshal of the Soviet Union and Minister of Defense, known for his role in the failed August 1991 Soviet coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dmitry Yazov canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T315772 — 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: Dmitry Yazov Context triple: [August 1991 Soviet coup attempt, hasParticipant, Dmitry Yazov]
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A.
Nikolai Vatutin
Nikolai Vatutin was a prominent Soviet general of World War II who played a key role in major Eastern Front offensives, including the defense and counteroffensives around Kursk.
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B.
Gennady Yanayev
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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C.
Mikhail Kovalyov
Mikhail Kovalyov was a Soviet military commander who played a leading role in the Red Army’s operations during the 1939 invasion of Poland, known as the September Campaign.
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D.
Nikolai Tikhonov
Nikolai Tikhonov was a Soviet statesman and economist who served as Premier of the Soviet Union during the early 1980s under Leonid Brezhnev and his successors.
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E.
Sergei Fyodorov
Sergei Fyodorov is a legendary Russian ice hockey forward renowned for his stellar NHL career, particularly with the Detroit Red Wings, and his status as one of the most complete two-way players in the sport’s history.
- 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: Dmitry Yazov Target entity description: Dmitry Yazov was the last Marshal of the Soviet Union and Minister of Defense, known for his role in the failed August 1991 Soviet coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
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A.
Nikolai Vatutin
Nikolai Vatutin was a prominent Soviet general of World War II who played a key role in major Eastern Front offensives, including the defense and counteroffensives around Kursk.
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B.
Gennady Yanayev
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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C.
Mikhail Kovalyov
Mikhail Kovalyov was a Soviet military commander who played a leading role in the Red Army’s operations during the 1939 invasion of Poland, known as the September Campaign.
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D.
Nikolai Tikhonov
Nikolai Tikhonov was a Soviet statesman and economist who served as Premier of the Soviet Union during the early 1980s under Leonid Brezhnev and his successors.
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E.
Sergei Fyodorov
Sergei Fyodorov is a legendary Russian ice hockey forward renowned for his stellar NHL career, particularly with the Detroit Red Wings, and his status as one of the most complete two-way players in the sport’s history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Marshal of the Soviet Union
ⓘ
Soviet military officer ⓘ defence minister ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Order of Lenin
ⓘ
Order of the Patriotic War ⓘ Order of the Red Banner ⓘ Order of the Red Star ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Russia
ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ |
| employer |
Soviet armed forces
ⓘ
surface form:
Soviet Armed Forces
|
| familyName | Yazov ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
defence policy
ⓘ
military affairs ⓘ |
| givenName |
Dimitri
ⓘ
surface form:
Dmitry
|
| hasHonorificTitle |
Hero of the Russian Federation
ⓘ
Hero of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| ideology | communism ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Russian ⓘ |
| memberOf | Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Marshal of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| name | Dmitry Yazov self-link ⓘ |
| notableEvent | arrest after failure of August 1991 coup attempt ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the last surviving Marshal of the Soviet Union
ⓘ
role in the failed August 1991 Soviet coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev ⓘ service as Soviet Minister of Defence during perestroika era ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | member of the State Committee on the State of Emergency ⓘ |
| participantIn |
August 1991 Soviet coup attempt
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| partOf |
Soviet High Command
ⓘ
surface form:
Soviet military leadership
Soviet government ⓘ
surface form:
Soviet political leadership
|
| positionHeld |
Marshal of the Soviet Union
ⓘ
People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR ⓘ
surface form:
Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union
|
| residence | Moscow ⓘ |
| serviceBranch |
Soviet armed forces
ⓘ
surface form:
Soviet Armed Forces
Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ
surface form:
Soviet Army
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| wasLastHolderOf | title of Marshal of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| workLocation | Moscow ⓘ |
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: Dmitry Yazov Description of subject: Dmitry Yazov was the last Marshal of the Soviet Union and Minister of Defense, known for his role in the failed August 1991 Soviet coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.