Vladimir Kryuchkov
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Vladimir Kryuchkov was a Soviet politician and KGB chairman best known as one of the leading organizers of the failed August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vladimir Kryuchkov canonical | 4 |
| Kryuchkov | 1 |
| Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T315773 — 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: Vladimir Kryuchkov Context triple: [August 1991 Soviet coup attempt, hasParticipant, Vladimir Kryuchkov]
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A.
Dmitry Yazov
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Anastas Mikoyan
Anastas Mikoyan was a long-serving Soviet statesman and close associate of multiple Soviet leaders, known for his key roles in economic policy and foreign affairs from the early Bolshevik era through the Khrushchev period.
- 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: Vladimir Kryuchkov Target entity description: Vladimir Kryuchkov was a Soviet politician and KGB chairman best known as one of the leading organizers of the failed August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
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A.
Dmitry Yazov
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Anastas Mikoyan
Anastas Mikoyan was a long-serving Soviet statesman and close associate of multiple Soviet leaders, known for his key roles in economic policy and foreign affairs from the early Bolshevik era through the Khrushchev period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
KGB officer
ⓘ
Soviet politician ⓘ human ⓘ intelligence chief ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Order of Lenin
ⓘ
Order of the Patriotic War ⓘ
surface form:
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
Order of the Red Banner ⓘ Order of the Red Star ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | meningitis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Russia
ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1924-02-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2007-11-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR
ⓘ
Saratov State University ⓘ |
| employer |
KGB
ⓘ
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union ⓘ
surface form:
Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs
|
| ethnicGroup | Russians ⓘ |
| familyName |
Vladimir Kryuchkov
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Kryuchkov
|
| fullName |
Vladimir Kryuchkov
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov
|
| givenName | Vladimir ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
ⓘ
State Committee on the State of Emergency in the USSR ⓘ
surface form:
State Committee on the State of Emergency
|
| militaryBranch | KGB ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in the August 1991 Soviet coup attempt ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
ⓘ
intelligence officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 1991-08-22 ⓘ |
| officeHeld | Chairman of the KGB ⓘ |
| officeStartTime | 1988-10-01 ⓘ |
| participantIn |
August 1991 Soviet coup attempt
ⓘ
surface form:
August 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt
|
| patronymicName | Alexandrovich ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Russian SFSR
ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ Tsaritsyn ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Moscow
ⓘ
Russia ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of the KGB
ⓘ
Head of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB ⓘ deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union ⓘ member of the CPSU Secretariat ⓘ member of the Central Committee of the CPSU ⓘ |
| predecessor | Viktor Chebrikov ⓘ |
| religion | atheism ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | leading organizer of the August 1991 coup attempt ⓘ |
| spouse | Nina Kryuchkova ⓘ |
| successor | Vadim Bakatin ⓘ |
| workLocation | Moscow ⓘ |
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: Vladimir Kryuchkov Description of subject: Vladimir Kryuchkov was a Soviet politician and KGB chairman best known as one of the leading organizers of the failed August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov
this entity surface form:
Kryuchkov