Genrikh Yagoda
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Genrikh Yagoda was a Soviet secret police official who headed the NKVD during the early stages of Stalin’s Great Purge before himself being arrested and executed.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Genrikh Yagoda canonical | 14 |
| Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda | 1 |
| Генрих Григорьевич Ягода | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T702975 — 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: Genrikh Yagoda Context triple: [NKVD, notableLeader, Genrikh Yagoda]
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A.
Yakov Sverdlov
Yakov Sverdlov was a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary and early Soviet statesman who served as the first head of state of Soviet Russia following the October Revolution.
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B.
Grigory Zinoviev
Grigory Zinoviev was a prominent early Bolshevik leader, close associate of Lenin, and later a key victim of Stalin’s Great Purge, executed after a major show trial.
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C.
Sergei Kamenev
Sergei Kamenev was a prominent Soviet military commander who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
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D.
Andrei Zhdanov
Andrei Zhdanov was a prominent Soviet politician and close associate of Joseph Stalin, known for shaping postwar cultural policy and leading major party organizations before his death in 1948.
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E.
Lev Kamenev
Lev Kamenev was a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary and early Soviet political leader who became one of the principal defendants in Stalin’s first major show trial during the Great Purge.
- 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: Genrikh Yagoda Target entity description: Genrikh Yagoda was a Soviet secret police official who headed the NKVD during the early stages of Stalin’s Great Purge before himself being arrested and executed.
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A.
Yakov Sverdlov
Yakov Sverdlov was a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary and early Soviet statesman who served as the first head of state of Soviet Russia following the October Revolution.
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B.
Grigory Zinoviev
Grigory Zinoviev was a prominent early Bolshevik leader, close associate of Lenin, and later a key victim of Stalin’s Great Purge, executed after a major show trial.
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C.
Sergei Kamenev
Sergei Kamenev was a prominent Soviet military commander who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
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D.
Andrei Zhdanov
Andrei Zhdanov was a prominent Soviet politician and close associate of Joseph Stalin, known for shaping postwar cultural policy and leading major party organizations before his death in 1948.
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E.
Lev Kamenev
Lev Kamenev was a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary and early Soviet political leader who became one of the principal defendants in Stalin’s first major show trial during the Great Purge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NKVD officer
ⓘ
Soviet politician ⓘ human ⓘ perpetrator of political repression ⓘ secret police official ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Joseph Stalin ⓘ |
| arrestedIn | 1937 ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1891-11-07 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution by shooting ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
espionage
ⓘ
sabotage ⓘ terrorism ⓘ treason ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Russian Empire
ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1938-03-15 ⓘ |
| endTime | as head of NKVD: 1936 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| executedIn | 1938 ⓘ |
| familyName | Yagoda ⓘ |
| fullName |
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda
ⓘ
linked to:
Genrikh Yagoda
|
| givenName | Genrikh ⓘ |
| memberOf |
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
ⓘ
linked to:
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Cheka ⓘ GPU ⓘ NKVD ⓘ OGPU ⓘ
linked to:
GPU
|
| methodOfExecution | shooting ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Генрих Григорьевич Ягода
ⓘ
linked to:
Genrikh Yagoda
|
| notableEvent |
Great Purge
ⓘ
Moscow show trials ⓘ
linked to:
Moscow Trials
|
| notableFor |
being purged and executed during the Great Purge himself
ⓘ
heading the NKVD during the early stages of Stalin's Great Purge ⓘ |
| notableWork | organization of early stages of the Great Purge ⓘ |
| occupation |
secret police officer
ⓘ
state security official ⓘ |
| participantIn |
collectivization-related repression
ⓘ
construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal ⓘ political repression in the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Russian Empire
ⓘ
Rybinsk ⓘ Yaroslavl Governorate ⓘ
linked to:
Yaroslavl Oblast
|
| placeOfDeath |
Moscow
ⓘ
Russian SFSR ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR
ⓘ
head of OGPU ⓘ head of the NKVD ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Nikolai Yezhov ⓘ |
| startTime | as head of NKVD: 1934 ⓘ |
| trial | Trial of the Twenty-One ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Genrikh Yagoda Description of subject: Genrikh Yagoda was a Soviet secret police official who headed the NKVD during the early stages of Stalin’s Great Purge before himself being arrested and executed.
Referenced by (16)
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