People's Commissar for Heavy Industry of the Soviet Union

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government office ministerial position

The People's Commissar for Heavy Industry of the Soviet Union was a top-level government post responsible for directing and overseeing the development and management of the USSR's heavy industrial sector.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
People's Commissar for Heavy Industry	1
People's Commissar for Heavy Industry of the Soviet Union canonical	1
Народный комиссар тяжёлой промышленности СССР	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2317122 — 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 Commissar for Heavy Industry of the Soviet Union
Context triple: [Lazar Kaganovich, positionHeld, People's Commissar for Heavy Industry of the Soviet Union]

A. People's Commissar for State Control of the RSFSR
The People's Commissar for State Control of the RSFSR was a Soviet government post responsible for overseeing financial and administrative discipline and auditing state institutions within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
B. People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR
The People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR was the top Soviet government post responsible for directing the Red Army and overseeing the military defense policy of the Soviet Union.
C. People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the RSFSR
The People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the RSFSR was the early Soviet government post responsible for directing the Red Army and Navy during and after the Russian Civil War.
D. People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR
The People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR was the powerful head of the Soviet secret police and internal security apparatus, overseeing state security, political repression, and law enforcement.
E. 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.
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 Commissar for Heavy Industry of the Soviet Union
Target entity description: The People's Commissar for Heavy Industry of the Soviet Union was a top-level government post responsible for directing and overseeing the development and management of the USSR's heavy industrial sector.

A. People's Commissar for State Control of the RSFSR
The People's Commissar for State Control of the RSFSR was a Soviet government post responsible for overseeing financial and administrative discipline and auditing state institutions within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
B. People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR
The People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR was the top Soviet government post responsible for directing the Red Army and overseeing the military defense policy of the Soviet Union.
C. People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the RSFSR
The People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the RSFSR was the early Soviet government post responsible for directing the Red Army and Navy during and after the Russian Civil War.
D. People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR
The People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR was the powerful head of the Soviet secret police and internal security apparatus, overseeing state security, political repression, and law enforcement.
E. 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.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	government office ⓘ ministerial position ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ⓘ linked to: Soviet Union
budgetSource	state budget of the Soviet Union ⓘ
country	Soviet Union ⓘ
dissolved	1939 ⓘ
fieldOfWork	heavy industry ⓘ industrial planning ⓘ
governmentBranch	executive branch of the Soviet Union ⓘ
hasJurisdictionOver	state-owned heavy industrial enterprises ⓘ
hasPart	central apparatus of the commissariat ⓘ regional industrial directorates ⓘ
inception	1932 ⓘ
industryType	chemical industry ⓘ fuel industry ⓘ machine building ⓘ metallurgy ⓘ mining industry ⓘ
legalForm	people's commissariat ⓘ
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	Moscow ⓘ
mainTask	execution of Five-Year Plans in heavy industry ⓘ rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union ⓘ
nativeLabel	Народный комиссар тяжёлой промышленности СССР ⓘ linked to: People's Commissar for Heavy Industry of the Soviet Union
officeHolderTitle	People's Commissar for Heavy Industry ⓘ linked to: People's Commissar for Heavy Industry of the Soviet Union
partOf	Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union ⓘ linked to: Council of People's Commissars Soviet command economy ⓘ Soviet planned economy ⓘ
positionHeldBy	Lazar Kaganovich ⓘ Mikhail Pervukhin ⓘ Nikolai Voznesensky ⓘ Sergo Ordzhonikidze ⓘ
precededBy	Supreme Council of the National Economy (VSNKh) of the Soviet Union ⓘ linked to: Gosplan
regulates	industrial investment policy in heavy industry ⓘ
replacedBy	Minister of Heavy Industry of the Soviet Union ⓘ
responsibleFor	coordination of industrial production ⓘ development of heavy industry in the Soviet Union ⓘ implementation of industrial plans ⓘ management of heavy industrial enterprises ⓘ
splitInto	People's Commissariat of Ferrous Metallurgy of the Soviet Union ⓘ linked to: People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry People's Commissariat of Machine-Building of the Soviet Union ⓘ linked to: People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry People's Commissariat of Nonferrous Metallurgy of the Soviet Union ⓘ People's Commissariat of the Chemical Industry of the Soviet Union ⓘ People's Commissariat of the Fuel Industry of the Soviet Union ⓘ
subordinateTo	Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union ⓘ linked to: Council of People's Commissars Soviet government ⓘ
timePeriod	Stalin era ⓘ
usedLanguage	Russian ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lazar Kaganovich → positionHeld → People's Commissar for Heavy Industry of the Soviet Union ⓘ

People's Commissar for Heavy Industry of the Soviet Union → nativeLabel → Народный комиссар тяжёлой промышленности СССР ⓘ

linked to: People's Commissar for Heavy Industry of the Soviet Union

People's Commissar for Heavy Industry of the Soviet Union → officeHolderTitle → People's Commissar for Heavy Industry ⓘ