Kim Philby
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Kim Philby was a high-ranking British intelligence officer who became one of the most infamous Soviet double agents of the 20th century.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kim Philby canonical | 14 |
| Philby | 3 |
| Harold Adrian Russell Philby | 2 |
| Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby | 1 |
| Oleg Penkovsky | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2046009 — 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: Kim Philby Context triple: [Westminster School, hasNotableAlumni, Kim Philby]
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A.
James Jesus Angleton
James Jesus Angleton was a prominent American intelligence officer best known for serving as the long-time chief of counterintelligence at the CIA during the Cold War.
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B.
Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs was a German-born theoretical physicist and Soviet spy who passed crucial atomic secrets from the U.S. and U.K. nuclear programs to the Soviet Union during and after World War II.
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C.
E. Howard Hunt
E. Howard Hunt was a former CIA officer and White House operative best known as a key conspirator in the Watergate break-in and cover-up.
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D.
James Hugh Angleton
James Hugh Angleton was the father of longtime CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton and a U.S. intelligence-linked businessman who worked in Italy before and during World War II.
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E.
Rudolf Abel
Rudolf Abel was a Soviet intelligence officer and spy whose 1962 Cold War prisoner exchange for U.S. U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers became internationally famous.
- 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: Kim Philby Target entity description: Kim Philby was a high-ranking British intelligence officer who became one of the most infamous Soviet double agents of the 20th century.
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A.
James Jesus Angleton
James Jesus Angleton was a prominent American intelligence officer best known for serving as the long-time chief of counterintelligence at the CIA during the Cold War.
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B.
Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs was a German-born theoretical physicist and Soviet spy who passed crucial atomic secrets from the U.S. and U.K. nuclear programs to the Soviet Union during and after World War II.
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C.
E. Howard Hunt
E. Howard Hunt was a former CIA officer and White House operative best known as a key conspirator in the Watergate break-in and cover-up.
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D.
James Hugh Angleton
James Hugh Angleton was the father of longtime CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton and a U.S. intelligence-linked businessman who worked in Italy before and during World War II.
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E.
Rudolf Abel
Rudolf Abel was a Soviet intelligence officer and spy whose 1962 Cold War prisoner exchange for U.S. U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers became internationally famous.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Kim Philby Description of subject: Kim Philby was a high-ranking British intelligence officer who became one of the most infamous Soviet double agents of the 20th century.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kim Philby
linked to: Kim Philby
linked to: Kim Philby
linked to: Kim Philby
subject linked to:
Kim
linked to: Kim Philby
linked to: Kim Philby