Viktor Yelchin
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Viktor Yelchin is best known as the father of the late actor Anton Yelchin, who gained fame for his roles in films such as the rebooted Star Trek series.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Viktor Yelchin canonical | 6 |
| Tatiana Yelchin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T171097 — 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: Viktor Yelchin Context triple: [Anton Yelchin, parents, Viktor Yelchin]
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A.
Anton Yelchin
Anton Yelchin was a Russian-American actor best known for playing Pavel Chekov in the rebooted Star Trek film series and for his acclaimed performances in independent movies before his untimely death in 2016.
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B.
Casper Van Dien
Casper Van Dien is an American actor best known for his leading role as Johnny Rico in the science fiction film "Starship Troopers."
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C.
Josh Hartnett
Josh Hartnett is an American actor known for his breakout roles in late-1990s and early-2000s films such as "The Faculty," "Pearl Harbor," and "Black Hawk Down," as well as later work in projects like the series "Penny Dreadful."
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D.
Marc Tarpenning
Marc Tarpenning is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of electric vehicle and clean energy company Tesla, Inc.
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E.
Zach Staenberg
Zach Staenberg is an American film editor best known for his Academy Award–winning work on "The Matrix" and its sequels.
- 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: Viktor Yelchin Target entity description: Viktor Yelchin is best known as the father of the late actor Anton Yelchin, who gained fame for his roles in films such as the rebooted Star Trek series.
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A.
Anton Yelchin
Anton Yelchin was a Russian-American actor best known for playing Pavel Chekov in the rebooted Star Trek film series and for his acclaimed performances in independent movies before his untimely death in 2016.
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B.
Casper Van Dien
Casper Van Dien is an American actor best known for his leading role as Johnny Rico in the science fiction film "Starship Troopers."
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C.
Josh Hartnett
Josh Hartnett is an American actor known for his breakout roles in late-1990s and early-2000s films such as "The Faculty," "Pearl Harbor," and "Black Hawk Down," as well as later work in projects like the series "Penny Dreadful."
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D.
Marc Tarpenning
Marc Tarpenning is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of electric vehicle and clean energy company Tesla, Inc.
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E.
Zach Staenberg
Zach Staenberg is an American film editor best known for his Academy Award–winning work on "The Matrix" and its sequels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure skating coach
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| child | Anton Yelchin ⓘ |
| coachedIn |
Russia
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United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Russia
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| emigrationReason | antisemitism in Soviet Union ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| hasWonTitle | Soviet figure skating champion ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Russian ⓘ |
| movement | emigrated from Soviet Union to United States ⓘ |
| name | Viktor Yelchin ⓘ |
| notableEvent | emigrated to the United States with his family in the early 1990s ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of actor Anton Yelchin ⓘ |
| occupation |
figure skater
ⓘ
figure skating coach ⓘ |
| parentOf | Anton Yelchin ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
Saint Petersburg ⓘ
linked to:
St. Petersburg
|
| sport | figure skating ⓘ |
| spouse | Irina Korina ⓘ |
| workedWith | Irina Korina ⓘ |
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: Viktor Yelchin Description of subject: Viktor Yelchin is best known as the father of the late actor Anton Yelchin, who gained fame for his roles in films such as the rebooted Star Trek series.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.