Radovan Karadžić
E165089
Bosnian Serb politician
convicted war criminal
former president of Republika Srpska
human
poet
psychiatrist
Radovan Karadžić is a Bosnian Serb former political leader convicted of war crimes, including genocide, for his role in the Bosnian War.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Radovan Karadžić canonical | 6 |
| Bosnian Serb leadership | 1 |
| Karadžić | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1422083 — 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: Radovan Karadžić Context triple: [Yugoslav Wars, notableIndictedLeaders, Radovan Karadžić]
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A.
Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević was a Serbian and Yugoslav political leader and president whose nationalist policies and role in the Yugoslav Wars made him a central and highly controversial figure in the breakup of Yugoslavia and later a defendant at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
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B.
Dragiša Cvetković
Dragiša Cvetković was a Yugoslav politician who served as prime minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the late 1930s and early 1940s, known for signing the Cvetković–Maček Agreement and for his government’s alignment with the Axis powers before World War II.
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C.
Milan Nedić
Milan Nedić was a Serbian general who became the head of a Nazi-collaborationist puppet government in German-occupied Serbia during World War II.
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D.
Tomislav Tomašević
Tomislav Tomašević is a Croatian politician and environmental activist who serves as the mayor of Zagreb and is a leading figure of the green-left political movement in Croatia.
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E.
Ratko Mladić
Ratko Mladić is a former Bosnian Serb military commander convicted of genocide and war crimes for his role in atrocities such as the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian War.
- 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: Radovan Karadžić Target entity description: Radovan Karadžić is a Bosnian Serb former political leader convicted of war crimes, including genocide, for his role in the Bosnian War.
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A.
Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević was a Serbian and Yugoslav political leader and president whose nationalist policies and role in the Yugoslav Wars made him a central and highly controversial figure in the breakup of Yugoslavia and later a defendant at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
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B.
Dragiša Cvetković
Dragiša Cvetković was a Yugoslav politician who served as prime minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the late 1930s and early 1940s, known for signing the Cvetković–Maček Agreement and for his government’s alignment with the Axis powers before World War II.
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C.
Milan Nedić
Milan Nedić was a Serbian general who became the head of a Nazi-collaborationist puppet government in German-occupied Serbia during World War II.
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D.
Tomislav Tomašević
Tomislav Tomašević is a Croatian politician and environmental activist who serves as the mayor of Zagreb and is a leading figure of the green-left political movement in Croatia.
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E.
Ratko Mladić
Ratko Mladić is a former Bosnian Serb military commander convicted of genocide and war crimes for his role in atrocities such as the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bosnian Serb politician
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convicted war criminal ⓘ former president of Republika Srpska ⓘ human ⓘ poet ⓘ psychiatrist ⓘ |
| arrestedOn | 2008-07-21 ⓘ |
| charge |
crimes against humanity
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genocide ⓘ war crimes ⓘ |
| citizenship | Bosnia and Herzegovina ⓘ |
| convictedBy | International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
deportation
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extermination ⓘ genocide at Srebrenica ⓘ inhumane acts ⓘ persecution ⓘ taking of hostages ⓘ terror against civilians in Sarajevo ⓘ unlawful attacks on civilians ⓘ |
| country | Republika Srpska ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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linked to:
Yugoslavia
|
| dateOfBirth | 1945-06-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfFinalJudgment | 2019-03-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfInitialSentence | 2016-03-24 ⓘ |
| detainedAt |
United Nations Detention Unit, Scheveningen, The Hague
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linked to:
ICC Detention Centre, Scheveningen
|
| educatedAt | University of Sarajevo ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Serb
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linked to:
Serbs
|
| familyName |
Karadžić
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linked to:
Radovan Karadžić
|
| fieldOfWork |
politics
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psychiatry ⓘ |
| founded | Serb Democratic Party (Bosnia and Herzegovina) ⓘ |
| givenName | Radovan ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Serbian ⓘ |
| memberOf | Serb Democratic Party (Bosnia and Herzegovina) ⓘ |
| name | Radovan Karadžić ⓘ |
| notableWork | poetry collections in Serbian ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
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psychiatrist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| originalSentence | 40 years imprisonment ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Bosnian War ⓘ |
| placeOfArrest |
Belgrade, Serbia
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linked to:
Belgrade
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| placeOfBirth | Petnjica, Šavnik municipality, Montenegro ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
President of Republika Srpska
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Supreme Commander of the Army of Republika Srpska ⓘ |
| religion |
Serbian Orthodox Christianity
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linked to:
Serbian Orthodox Church
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| sentenceIncreasedTo | life imprisonment ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| usedAlias | Dragan Dabić ⓘ |
| wentIntoHiding | 1996 ⓘ |
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: Radovan Karadžić Description of subject: Radovan Karadžić is a Bosnian Serb former political leader convicted of war crimes, including genocide, for his role in the Bosnian War.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
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notableCaseInvolves
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Radovan Karadžić
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linked to: Radovan Karadžić
linked to: Radovan Karadžić