Boris Spassky
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Boris Spassky is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion, best known for his 1972 title match against Bobby Fischer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boris Spassky canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8486464 — 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: Boris Spassky Context triple: [Pawn Sacrifice, mainSubject, Boris Spassky]
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A.
Anatoly Karpov
Anatoly Karpov is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion renowned for his positional style and his long, historic rivalry with Garry Kasparov.
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B.
Mikhail Tal
Mikhail Tal was a Latvian-Soviet chess grandmaster and World Chess Champion renowned for his wildly imaginative, sacrificial attacking style and status as one of the greatest tacticians in chess history.
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C.
Mikhail Botvinnik
Mikhail Botvinnik was a Soviet chess grandmaster and World Chess Champion widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential players in chess history.
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D.
Bobby Fischer
Bobby Fischer was an American chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential chess players in history.
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E.
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster widely regarded as one of the greatest chess players in history and a prominent political activist and author.
- 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: Boris Spassky Target entity description: Boris Spassky is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion, best known for his 1972 title match against Bobby Fischer.
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A.
Anatoly Karpov
Anatoly Karpov is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion renowned for his positional style and his long, historic rivalry with Garry Kasparov.
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B.
Mikhail Tal
Mikhail Tal was a Latvian-Soviet chess grandmaster and World Chess Champion renowned for his wildly imaginative, sacrificial attacking style and status as one of the greatest tacticians in chess history.
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C.
Mikhail Botvinnik
Mikhail Botvinnik was a Soviet chess grandmaster and World Chess Champion widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential players in chess history.
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D.
Bobby Fischer
Bobby Fischer was an American chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential chess players in history.
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E.
Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov is a Russian chess grandmaster widely regarded as one of the greatest chess players in history and a prominent political activist and author.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World Chess Champion
ⓘ
chess player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryForChess |
France
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Russia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1937-01-30 ⓘ |
| endTimeAsWorldChampion | 1972 ⓘ |
| familyName | Spassky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FIDEGrandmasterTitleYear | 1955 ⓘ |
| FIDEtitleAwarded | 1955 ⓘ |
| givenName | Boris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isLivingPerson | true ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Russian ⓘ |
| laterResidence | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lostWorldChampionshipTo | Bobby Fischer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Boris Spassky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableMatch | World Chess Championship 1972 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableOpeningRepertoire |
King's Gambit
GENERATED
ⓘ
Ruy Lopez GENERATED ⓘ Sicilian Defence GENERATED ⓘ |
| notableOpponent | Bobby Fischer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
chess grandmaster
ⓘ
chess player ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Candidates Tournament 1965
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Candidates Tournament 1968 NERFINISHED ⓘ World Chess Championship 1966 NERFINISHED ⓘ World Chess Championship 1969 NERFINISHED ⓘ World Chess Championship 1972 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peakRating | 2690 ⓘ |
| peakRatingDate | 1971-07-01 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Leningrad
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Russian SFSR NERFINISHED ⓘ Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| representedNationalTeam | Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Larisa Spasskaya
NERFINISHED
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Marina Shcherbachova NERFINISHED ⓘ Nadezhda Spasskaya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTimeAsWorldChampion | 1969 ⓘ |
| teamCompetition | Chess Olympiad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Grandmaster ⓘ |
| wonWorldChampionshipAgainst | Tigran Petrosian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worldChampionInChess | yes ⓘ |
| worldChessChampionNumber | 10 ⓘ |
| yearLostWorldChampionship | 1972 ⓘ |
| yearWonWorldChampionship | 1969 ⓘ |
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: Boris Spassky Description of subject: Boris Spassky is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion, best known for his 1972 title match against Bobby Fischer.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.