Andrei Sakharov
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Andrei Sakharov was a Soviet nuclear physicist turned human rights activist and dissident, widely known as the "father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb" and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Andrei Sakharov canonical | 15 |
| Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov | 1 |
| Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov | 1 |
| physicist Andrei Sakharov | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T543711 — 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.
Target entity: Andrei Sakharov Context triple: [Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union, notableMember, Andrei Sakharov]
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Vitaly Ginzburg
Vitaly Ginzburg was a Soviet theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductivity and other areas of condensed matter physics.
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Joseph Rotblat
Joseph Rotblat was a Polish-British physicist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate known for leaving the Manhattan Project on moral grounds and later co-founding the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs to work toward nuclear disarmament.
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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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Lev Landau
Lev Landau was a Soviet theoretical physicist renowned for his pioneering work in condensed matter physics and quantum theory, for which he received the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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E.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and dissident whose works exposing the brutality of the Soviet Gulag system, such as "The Gulag Archipelago," earned him international acclaim and the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Andrei Sakharov Target entity description: Andrei Sakharov was a Soviet nuclear physicist turned human rights activist and dissident, widely known as the "father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb" and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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A.
Vitaly Ginzburg
Vitaly Ginzburg was a Soviet theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductivity and other areas of condensed matter physics.
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B.
Joseph Rotblat
Joseph Rotblat was a Polish-British physicist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate known for leaving the Manhattan Project on moral grounds and later co-founding the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs to work toward nuclear disarmament.
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C.
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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Lev Landau
Lev Landau was a Soviet theoretical physicist renowned for his pioneering work in condensed matter physics and quantum theory, for which he received the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and dissident whose works exposing the brutality of the Soviet Gulag system, such as "The Gulag Archipelago," earned him international acclaim and the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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Soviet dissident ⓘ human ⓘ human rights activist ⓘ nuclear physicist ⓘ peace activist ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| advocated |
civil liberties in the Soviet Union
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nuclear disarmament ⓘ political pluralism ⓘ rule of law ⓘ |
| authored | Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Lenin Prize
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Nobel Peace Prize ⓘ Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought ⓘ
surface form:
Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought (eponym)
Stalin Prize ⓘ |
| birthCountry |
Russian SFSR
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surface form:
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Soviet Union ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1921-05-21 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Moscow ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Vostryakovskoye Cemetery ⓘ |
| causeOfExile | opposition to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan ⓘ |
| citizenship | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| countryOfExile | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1989-12-14 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Moscow ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Moscow State University ⓘ |
| employer |
Lebedev Physical Institute
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Soviet Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| exileEndYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| exileStartYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
nuclear physics
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theoretical physics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
development of the Soviet hydrogen bomb
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human rights activism in the Soviet Union ⓘ opposition to nuclear proliferation ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Russian ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Soviet Academy of Sciences
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surface form:
Academy of Sciences of the USSR
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| movement |
Soviet Jewry movement
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surface form:
Soviet dissident movement
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| name |
Andrei Sakharov
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
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| nickname | father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeCategory | Peace ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeYear | 1975 ⓘ |
| placeOfExile | Gorky ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
People's Deputy of the USSR
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full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ⓘ |
| religion | atheism ⓘ |
| spouse |
Klavdia Vikhireva
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Yelena Bonner ⓘ |
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Subject: Andrei Sakharov Description of subject: Andrei Sakharov was a Soviet nuclear physicist turned human rights activist and dissident, widely known as the "father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb" and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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