Volhynia

E92101

geographical region historical region

Volhynia is a historic region in northwestern Ukraine known for its medieval principalities, diverse ethnic heritage, and turbulent history, particularly during World War II.

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All labels observed (10)

Label	Occurrences
Volhynia canonical	69
Volhynia Governorate	2
Volhynia region	2
Volyn	2
historic Volyn region	2
Drevlians' land	1
Ruthenia	1
Volhynia (Crown lands after 1569)	1
Volhynian Governorate	1
historical region of Volhynia	1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geographical region ⓘ historical region ⓘ
associatedWithOrganization	Home Army (Armia Krajowa) ⓘ surface form: Polish Home Army Ukrainian Insurgent Army ⓘ
borderedBy	Bug River ⓘ District of Galicia ⓘ surface form: Galicia Podolia ⓘ Polesia ⓘ Styr River ⓘ
country	Ukraine ⓘ
experiencedEvent	German occupation of Ukraine ⓘ surface form: Nazi German occupation of 1941–1944 Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland ⓘ surface form: Soviet occupation of 1939–1941 Volhynia massacres ⓘ World War II occupations ⓘ ethnic cleansing of Poles in Volhynia ⓘ
hasEthnicGroup	Czechs ⓘ Germans ⓘ Jews ⓘ Poles ⓘ Russians ⓘ Ukrainians ⓘ
hasHeritage	Orthodox and Catholic cultural traditions ⓘ multiethnic history ⓘ
hasReligion	Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ surface form: Eastern Orthodoxy Byzantine Catholic Church ⓘ surface form: Greek Catholicism Judaism ⓘ Roman Catholicism ⓘ
historicalCapital	Lutsk ⓘ Volodymyr ⓘ
historicalLanguage	Polish ⓘ Ruthenian ⓘ Ukrainian ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ
locatedIn	Eastern Europe ⓘ northwestern Ukraine ⓘ
medievalPoliticalEntity	Principality of Volhynia ⓘ Principality of Volhynia ⓘ surface form: Principality of Volodymyr
modernAdministrativeSuccessor	Rivne Oblast ⓘ Volyn Oblast ⓘ parts of Khmelnytskyi Oblast ⓘ
namedAfter	Volhynians ⓘ
partOf	Grand Duchy of Lithuania ⓘ Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia ⓘ Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ⓘ Right-bank Ukraine ⓘ Russian Empire ⓘ Ruthenia ⓘ Second Polish Republic ⓘ Soviet Ukraine ⓘ surface form: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
timePeriodOfSignificance	Middle Ages ⓘ World War II ⓘ
unitedWith	Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia ⓘ surface form: Galicia–Volhynia

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: Volhynia
Description of subject: Volhynia is a historic region in northwestern Ukraine known for its medieval principalities, diverse ethnic heritage, and turbulent history, particularly during World War II.

Referenced by (82)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ukraine → hasSignificantRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

Abraham Zapruder → placeOfBirth → Volhynia ⓘ

this entity surface form: Volhynian Governorate

Ukrainian People’s Republic → territoryIncludes → Volhynia ⓘ

Western Ukraine → historicalRegionIncludes → Volhynia ⓘ

Volyn Oblast → partOfHistoricalRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

Luck (Polish) → historicalRegionContext → Volhynia ⓘ

Luc’k (transliteration) → partOf → Volhynia ⓘ

subject surface form: Luc’k

this entity surface form: Volhynia region

Luc’k (transliteration) → historicalRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

subject surface form: Luc’k

this entity surface form: Ruthenia

Luc’k (transliteration) → historicalRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

subject surface form: Luc’k

Holy Trinity Cathedral → locatedInHistoricRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

subject surface form: Holy Trinity Cathedral (Lutsk)

Volhynian Voivodeship → locatedInHistoricalRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

Leo I of Galicia → territory → Volhynia ⓘ

Right-bank Ukraine → hasPart → Volhynia ⓘ

this entity surface form: Volyn

Right-bank Ukraine → hasHistoricalRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

Igor of Kiev → deathPlace → Volhynia ⓘ

this entity surface form: Drevlians' land

Danylo of Halych → regionRuled → Volhynia ⓘ

November Uprising → location → Volhynia ⓘ

Brusilov Offensive → location → Volhynia ⓘ

Kiev Governorate → hasBorderWith → Volhynia ⓘ

this entity surface form: Volhynia Governorate

Grodno Governorate → borderedBy → Volhynia ⓘ

this entity surface form: Volhynia Governorate

Wołyńska Cavalry Brigade → garrisonLocation → Volhynia ⓘ

Wołyńska Cavalry Brigade → namedAfter → Volhynia ⓘ

this entity surface form: Volhynia region

Wołyńska Cavalry Brigade → location → Volhynia ⓘ

Eastern Galicia → borderedBy → Volhynia ⓘ

Warsaw Agreement (1920, with Poland) → historicalRegionConcerned → Volhynia ⓘ

Liuboml → partOf → Volhynia ⓘ

Liuboml → hasHistoricalRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

Rozhyshche → partOf → Volhynia ⓘ

this entity surface form: historic Volyn region

Rozhyshche → historicalRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

Turiysk → historicalRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

Manevychi → hasHistoricalRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

Ratne → historicalRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

Congress of Monarchs → historicalRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

Ukrainian Jews → historicalRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

Lokachi → historicalRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

Lokachi → historicalAffiliation → Volhynia ⓘ

this entity surface form: historic Volyn region

northwestern Ukraine → historicalRegionIncludes → Volhynia ⓘ

Andrew of Galicia → associatedWith → Volhynia ⓘ

Volodymyr → historicRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

Volodymyr → partOf → Volhynia ⓘ

this entity surface form: historical region of Volhynia

Kovel → locatedInHistoricalRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

Novovolynsk → locatedInHistoricalRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

Kovel Raion → partOfHistoricalRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

Horokhiv → locatedInHistoricalRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

this entity surface form: Volyn

Horokhiv → historicalAffiliation → Volhynia ⓘ

Ukrainian Insurgent Army → operatingArea → Volhynia ⓘ

Principality of Volhynia → locatedIn → Volhynia ⓘ

Principality of Volhynia → culturalRegion → Volhynia ⓘ

Union of Lublin → transferredTerritory → Volhynia ⓘ

Ivanychi → partOfHistoricalRegion → Volhynia ⓘ