People's Commissariat for Agriculture

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Soviet government ministry people's commissariat

The People's Commissariat for Agriculture was the Soviet government ministry responsible for directing agricultural policy, collectivization, and rural administration in the early USSR.

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All labels observed (9)

Label	Occurrences
Ministry of Agriculture of the USSR	3
People's Commissariat of Agriculture	2
People’s Commissariat of Agriculture of the USSR	2
Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Provisional Government	1
Narodny Komissariat Zemledeliya	1
People's Commissariat for Agriculture canonical	1
People's Commissariat for Agriculture of the RSFSR	1
People’s Commissariat of Agriculture	1
Народный комиссариат земледелия	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1273813 — 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: People's Commissariat for Agriculture
Context triple: [Council of People's Commissars, hasPart, People's Commissariat for Agriculture]

A. Office for Agricultural Affairs
The Office for Agricultural Affairs was a subdivision responsible for overseeing and coordinating agricultural policy and production within Nazi Germany’s Office of the Four Year Plan.
B. Council of People's Commissars
The Council of People's Commissars was the highest executive and administrative authority of Soviet Russia (and later the USSR) in the early Bolshevik period, functioning as the government cabinet headed by Vladimir Lenin.
C. Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development
The Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development is the European Commission department responsible for EU policies on agriculture, rural development, and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
D. Gosplan
Gosplan was the central Soviet state planning committee responsible for formulating and overseeing the USSR’s national economic plans.
E. Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food
The Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food is a German government authority responsible for implementing national and EU policies on agriculture, food, rural development, and fisheries.
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: People's Commissariat for Agriculture
Target entity description: The People's Commissariat for Agriculture was the Soviet government ministry responsible for directing agricultural policy, collectivization, and rural administration in the early USSR.

A. Office for Agricultural Affairs
The Office for Agricultural Affairs was a subdivision responsible for overseeing and coordinating agricultural policy and production within Nazi Germany’s Office of the Four Year Plan.
B. Council of People's Commissars
The Council of People's Commissars was the highest executive and administrative authority of Soviet Russia (and later the USSR) in the early Bolshevik period, functioning as the government cabinet headed by Vladimir Lenin.
C. Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development
The Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development is the European Commission department responsible for EU policies on agriculture, rural development, and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
D. Gosplan
Gosplan was the central Soviet state planning committee responsible for formulating and overseeing the USSR’s national economic plans.
E. Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food
The Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food is a German government authority responsible for implementing national and EU policies on agriculture, food, rural development, and fisheries.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Soviet government ministry ⓘ people's commissariat ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ⓘ linked to: Russian SFSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ⓘ linked to: Soviet Union
country	Soviet Union ⓘ
employer	Soviet agricultural planners ⓘ Soviet agronomists ⓘ rural administrators ⓘ
fieldOfWork	agricultural policy ⓘ agriculture ⓘ collectivization ⓘ rural administration ⓘ
governmentBranch	executive branch of the Soviet Union ⓘ
hasDomain	food supply ⓘ land management ⓘ rural economy ⓘ
hasDuties	implementation of agricultural plans ⓘ implementation of collectivization policies ⓘ management of state farms ⓘ organization of rural administration ⓘ oversight of collective farms ⓘ regulation of land use ⓘ
hasHeadquartersIn	Moscow ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn	Soviet food security ⓘ Soviet rural society ⓘ
hasObjective	development of collective and state farming ⓘ elimination of private landownership ⓘ increase agricultural production ⓘ socialist transformation of agriculture ⓘ
ideology	Marxism–Leninism ⓘ state socialism ⓘ
industry	agriculture ⓘ
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	Moscow ⓘ Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ⓘ linked to: Russian SFSR
nativeName	Народный комиссариат земледелия ⓘ linked to: People's Commissariat for Agriculture
nativeNameLanguage	Russian ⓘ
partOf	Council of People's Commissars of the USSR ⓘ linked to: Council of People's Commissars Soviet government ⓘ Soviet planned economy ⓘ
replacedBy	Ministry of Agriculture of the USSR ⓘ linked to: People's Commissariat for Agriculture
shortName	Narkomzem ⓘ
subordinateTo	Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ Council of People's Commissars ⓘ
timePeriod	early Soviet period ⓘ
usedPolicyInstrument	administrative directives ⓘ central planning ⓘ compulsory collectivization ⓘ production quotas ⓘ

How these facts were elicited