Alexander Pechersky
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Alexander Pechersky was a Soviet Jewish Red Army officer who became a key leader of the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp, one of the most significant acts of armed resistance during the Holocaust.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alexander Pechersky canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T349855 — 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: Alexander Pechersky Context triple: [Sobibor uprising, organizedBy, Alexander Pechersky]
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Nikolai Zinin
Nikolai Zinin was a 19th-century Russian organic chemist known for his pioneering work on the reduction of nitro compounds to amines, a key development in synthetic organic chemistry.
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B.
Ivan Susloparov
Ivan Susloparov was a Soviet general and military diplomat who represented the USSR at the signing of Germany’s unconditional surrender in World War II.
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C.
Nikolai Nikitin
Nikolai Nikitin was a prominent Soviet structural engineer and architect best known for designing landmark monumental structures, including the towering statue at the Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex and the Ostankino TV Tower in Moscow.
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D.
Mikhail Piotrovsky
Mikhail Piotrovsky is a Russian historian and museum curator best known for leading the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg for decades and overseeing its expansion and international prominence.
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E.
Ivan Kozhedub
Ivan Kozhedub was a Soviet World War II fighter ace and three-time Hero of the Soviet Union, widely regarded as one of the highest-scoring Allied pilots of the 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: Alexander Pechersky Target entity description: Alexander Pechersky was a Soviet Jewish Red Army officer who became a key leader of the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp, one of the most significant acts of armed resistance during the Holocaust.
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A.
Nikolai Zinin
Nikolai Zinin was a 19th-century Russian organic chemist known for his pioneering work on the reduction of nitro compounds to amines, a key development in synthetic organic chemistry.
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B.
Ivan Susloparov
Ivan Susloparov was a Soviet general and military diplomat who represented the USSR at the signing of Germany’s unconditional surrender in World War II.
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C.
Nikolai Nikitin
Nikolai Nikitin was a prominent Soviet structural engineer and architect best known for designing landmark monumental structures, including the towering statue at the Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex and the Ostankino TV Tower in Moscow.
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D.
Mikhail Piotrovsky
Mikhail Piotrovsky is a Russian historian and museum curator best known for leading the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg for decades and overseeing its expansion and international prominence.
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E.
Ivan Kozhedub
Ivan Kozhedub was a Soviet World War II fighter ace and three-time Hero of the Soviet Union, widely regarded as one of the highest-scoring Allied pilots of the war.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Holocaust resistance fighter
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Jewish partisan ⓘ Red Army officer ⓘ Soviet military officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| aimOfActivity | mass escape of prisoners from Sobibor ⓘ |
| causeOfNotability | one of the most significant acts of armed resistance in a Nazi extermination camp ⓘ |
| commemoratedIn | memorials and literature about the Sobibor uprising ⓘ |
| conflict |
Eastern Front of World War II
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linked to:
Eastern Front
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| countryOfCitizenship | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
Holocaust historiography
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accounts of the Sobibor uprising ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jews ⓘ |
| familyName | Pechersky ⓘ |
| givenName | Alexander ⓘ |
| hasHonor | posthumous recognition as a hero of the Sobibor uprising ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | memory of Jewish armed resistance in the Holocaust ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
courage
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leadership ⓘ organizational skill ⓘ |
| hasRole |
prisoner-of-war
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uprising leader ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Russian ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Red Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| movement |
Jewish resistance during the Holocaust
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Soviet partisan movement ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| notableEvent | leading coordinated killing of SS officers and guards at Sobibor ⓘ |
| notableFor | leadership of the 1943 Sobibor extermination camp uprising ⓘ |
| notableWork | planning and organizing the Sobibor revolt ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| opposedBy | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| opposedTo | Holocaust ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Sobibor extermination camp uprising
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World War II ⓘ |
| placeOfImprisonment |
Nazi prisoner-of-war camps
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Sobibor extermination camp ⓘ
linked to:
Sobibor
|
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
capture by German forces during World War II
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deportation to Sobibor extermination camp ⓘ escape from Sobibor during the uprising ⓘ joining Soviet partisans after escape from Sobibor ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
books on Holocaust resistance
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films and documentaries about Sobibor ⓘ historical research on Nazi extermination camps ⓘ |
| victimOf | Nazi persecution of Jews ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Alexander Pechersky Description of subject: Alexander Pechersky was a Soviet Jewish Red Army officer who became a key leader of the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp, one of the most significant acts of armed resistance during the Holocaust.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sobibor
subject linked to:
Pechersky
subject linked to:
film "Escape from Sobibor"