Sergei Filin
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Sergei Filin is a Russian ballet dancer and former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, known internationally for both his acclaimed performances and his central role in a high-profile acid attack scandal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sergei Filin canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2465986 — 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: Sergei Filin Context triple: [Bolshoi Ballet, notableMember, Sergei Filin]
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A.
Yuri Shchekochikhin
Yuri Shchekochikhin was a prominent Russian investigative journalist, writer, and politician known for his hard-hitting reporting on corruption and organized crime, particularly through his work at Novaya Gazeta.
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B.
Sergey Sokolov
Sergey Sokolov was a Soviet military leader and Marshal of the Soviet Union who served as the USSR’s Minister of Defense during the 1980s.
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C.
Yuri Temirkanov
Yuri Temirkanov is a renowned Russian conductor celebrated for his long tenure as artistic director and principal conductor of the Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) Philharmonic Orchestra.
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D.
Andreyan Zakharov
Andreyan Zakharov was a prominent Russian neoclassical architect of the early 19th century, best known for shaping the monumental imperial style of St. Petersburg.
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E.
Vladimir Yurzinov
Vladimir Yurzinov is a prominent Russian ice hockey coach and former player, best known for his successful leadership of top Soviet and Russian clubs and contributions to the national team.
- 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: Sergei Filin Target entity description: Sergei Filin is a Russian ballet dancer and former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, known internationally for both his acclaimed performances and his central role in a high-profile acid attack scandal.
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A.
Yuri Shchekochikhin
Yuri Shchekochikhin was a prominent Russian investigative journalist, writer, and politician known for his hard-hitting reporting on corruption and organized crime, particularly through his work at Novaya Gazeta.
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B.
Sergey Sokolov
Sergey Sokolov was a Soviet military leader and Marshal of the Soviet Union who served as the USSR’s Minister of Defense during the 1980s.
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C.
Yuri Temirkanov
Yuri Temirkanov is a renowned Russian conductor celebrated for his long tenure as artistic director and principal conductor of the Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) Philharmonic Orchestra.
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D.
Andreyan Zakharov
Andreyan Zakharov was a prominent Russian neoclassical architect of the early 19th century, best known for shaping the monumental imperial style of St. Petersburg.
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E.
Vladimir Yurzinov
Vladimir Yurzinov is a prominent Russian ice hockey coach and former player, best known for his successful leadership of top Soviet and Russian clubs and contributions to the national team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artistic director
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ballet dancer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century ballet
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21st-century ballet ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Honored Artist of Russia
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People's Artist of Russia ⓘ |
| citizenship | Russia ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russia ⓘ |
| employer |
Bolshoi Ballet
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Bolshoi Theatre ⓘ |
| familyName | Filin ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | ballet ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | classical ballet ⓘ |
| givenName | Sergei ⓘ |
| hasRole |
artistic director
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principal dancer ⓘ |
| memberOf | Bolshoi Ballet ⓘ |
| movement | Russian ballet ⓘ |
| name | Sergei Filin ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Bolshoi Ballet acid attack scandal
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acid attack on his face ⓘ |
| notableFor |
acclaimed ballet performances
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being victim of a high-profile acid attack ⓘ |
| notableWork |
artistic direction of the Bolshoi Ballet
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performances with the Bolshoi Ballet ⓘ |
| occupation |
artistic director
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ballet dancer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet ⓘ |
| residence | Moscow ⓘ |
| workLocation | Moscow ⓘ |
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: Sergei Filin Description of subject: Sergei Filin is a Russian ballet dancer and former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, known internationally for both his acclaimed performances and his central role in a high-profile acid attack scandal.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.