Yevno Azef
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Yevno Azef was a notorious early 20th-century Russian double agent who simultaneously led the Socialist Revolutionary Party’s terrorist wing and informed for the Tsarist secret police.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Evno Fishelevich Azef | 1 |
| Yevno Azef canonical | 1 |
| Yevno Fishelevich Azef | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5455046 — 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: Yevno Azef Context triple: [Okhrana, notableAgent, Yevno Azef]
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A.
Ivan Khovansky
Ivan Khovansky was a Russian nobleman and military leader of the 17th century who played a key role in the early development and administration of frontier regions of the Russian Empire.
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B.
Nikolai Yezhov
Nikolai Yezhov was a high-ranking Soviet secret police chief who oversaw the most brutal phase of Stalin’s Great Purge before himself falling victim to the terror.
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C.
Yuri of Uglich
Yuri of Uglich was a Russian prince of the early 16th century, known as a younger son of Grand Prince Vasili III and a member of the ruling Rurikid dynasty.
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D.
Yefim Rasputin
Yefim Rasputin was a Siberian peasant farmer and coachman known primarily as the father of the Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin.
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E.
Yakov Slashchov
Yakov Slashchov was a Russian Imperial and later White Army general best known for leading anti-Bolshevik forces in southern Russia and Crimea during the Russian Civil 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: Yevno Azef Target entity description: Yevno Azef was a notorious early 20th-century Russian double agent who simultaneously led the Socialist Revolutionary Party’s terrorist wing and informed for the Tsarist secret police.
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A.
Ivan Khovansky
Ivan Khovansky was a Russian nobleman and military leader of the 17th century who played a key role in the early development and administration of frontier regions of the Russian Empire.
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B.
Nikolai Yezhov
Nikolai Yezhov was a high-ranking Soviet secret police chief who oversaw the most brutal phase of Stalin’s Great Purge before himself falling victim to the terror.
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C.
Yuri of Uglich
Yuri of Uglich was a Russian prince of the early 16th century, known as a younger son of Grand Prince Vasili III and a member of the ruling Rurikid dynasty.
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D.
Yefim Rasputin
Yefim Rasputin was a Siberian peasant farmer and coachman known primarily as the father of the Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin.
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E.
Yakov Slashchov
Yakov Slashchov was a Russian Imperial and later White Army general best known for leading anti-Bolshevik forces in southern Russia and Crimea during the Russian Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
double agent
ⓘ
informant ⓘ person ⓘ revolutionary ⓘ terrorist leader ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Germany
ⓘ
Russian Empire ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Evno Azef
ⓘ
Evno Fishelevich Azef ⓘ
linked to:
Yevno Azef
|
| betrayed | Socialist Revolutionary Party militants ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1869-09-11 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Grodno Governorate
ⓘ
Lyskovo ⓘ Russian Empire ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | kidney disease ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1918-04-24 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Berlin
ⓘ
German Empire ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Darmstadt Polytechnic
ⓘ
linked to:
Technical University of Darmstadt
Riga Polytechnic Institute ⓘ |
| employedBy |
Okhrana
ⓘ
Tsarist secret police ⓘ |
| era |
early 20th century
ⓘ
late 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| exposedBy | Vladimir Burtsev ⓘ |
| exposureDate | 1908 ⓘ |
| familyName | Azef ⓘ |
| fledTo | Germany ⓘ |
| fullName |
Yevno Fishelevich Azef
ⓘ
linked to:
Yevno Azef
|
| givenName | Yevno ⓘ |
| ideology | socialist revolutionism ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries (Russia)
ⓘ
linked to:
Socialist Revolutionary Party
Socialist Revolutionary Party ⓘ |
| movement |
Russian revolutionary movement
ⓘ
Socialist revolutionary movement ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
acting as a double agent for the Socialist Revolutionary Party and the Okhrana
ⓘ
betraying fellow revolutionaries to the Tsarist police ⓘ organizing political assassinations in the Russian Empire ⓘ |
| notableWork |
planning the assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich
ⓘ
planning the assassination of Interior Minister Vyacheslav von Plehve ⓘ |
| occupation |
political terrorist
ⓘ
revolutionary ⓘ secret police informant ⓘ |
| positionHeld | head of the Combat Organization of the Socialist Revolutionary Party ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Berlin ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Yevno Azef Description of subject: Yevno Azef was a notorious early 20th-century Russian double agent who simultaneously led the Socialist Revolutionary Party’s terrorist wing and informed for the Tsarist secret police.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yevno Azef
linked to: Yevno Azef