Gherman Titov
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Gherman Titov was a Soviet cosmonaut who became the second human to orbit the Earth and the youngest person ever to fly in space.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gherman Titov canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8809160 — 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: Gherman Titov Context triple: [Vostok 2, astronaut, Gherman Titov]
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A.
Alexei Leonov
Alexei Leonov was a Soviet cosmonaut famed for performing the first spacewalk in history and later becoming a prominent figure in space exploration and its public outreach.
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B.
Mikhail Komarov
Mikhail Komarov is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Komarov.
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C.
Vladimir Komarov
Vladimir Komarov was a Soviet cosmonaut and test pilot who became the first human to die during a spaceflight, perishing in the Soyuz 1 mission in 1967.
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D.
Yevgeny Leonov
Yevgeny Leonov was a beloved Soviet and Russian film and theater actor known for his warm, expressive performances and memorable roles in both comedies and dramas.
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E.
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, orbiting Earth on 12 April 1961 and becoming an international symbol of the Space Age.
- 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: Gherman Titov Target entity description: Gherman Titov was a Soviet cosmonaut who became the second human to orbit the Earth and the youngest person ever to fly in space.
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A.
Alexei Leonov
Alexei Leonov was a Soviet cosmonaut famed for performing the first spacewalk in history and later becoming a prominent figure in space exploration and its public outreach.
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B.
Mikhail Komarov
Mikhail Komarov is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Komarov.
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C.
Vladimir Komarov
Vladimir Komarov was a Soviet cosmonaut and test pilot who became the first human to die during a spaceflight, perishing in the Soyuz 1 mission in 1967.
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D.
Yevgeny Leonov
Yevgeny Leonov was a beloved Soviet and Russian film and theater actor known for his warm, expressive performances and memorable roles in both comedies and dramas.
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E.
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, orbiting Earth on 12 April 1961 and becoming an international symbol of the Space Age.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aviator
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cosmonaut ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| ageAtFirstSpaceflight | 25 ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Hero of the Soviet Union
NERFINISHED
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Order of Lenin ⓘ Order of the Red Star NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Novodevichy Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1935-09-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2000-09-20 ⓘ |
| education | Stalingrad Military Aviation School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Space Race NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Titov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | human spaceflight ⓘ |
| followedBy | Andriyan Nikolayev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Gherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Russian ⓘ |
| memberOf | Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Soviet Air Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Major General ⓘ |
| nationality | Soviet ⓘ |
| nativeName | Герман Степанович Титов NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
second human to orbit the Earth
ⓘ
youngest person to fly in space at time of flight ⓘ |
| numberOfOrbits | 17 ⓘ |
| occupation |
cosmonaut
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| partOf | Vostok programme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedFirst |
long-duration human spaceflight
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manual orientation of spacecraft in orbit by a human ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Verkhneye Zhilino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Moscow, Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAffiliation | Communist Party of the Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Yuri Gagarin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spacecraft | Vostok 2 spacecraft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceflightEndDate | 1961-08-07 ⓘ |
| spaceflightStartDate | 1961-08-06 ⓘ |
| spaceMission | Vostok 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Tamara Titova NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeInSpace | about 25 hours ⓘ |
| wasOnBoard | Vostok 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Gherman Titov Description of subject: Gherman Titov was a Soviet cosmonaut who became the second human to orbit the Earth and the youngest person ever to fly in space.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Vostok 2