Sverdlovsk-44 (Lesnoy)
E683908
Sverdlovsk-44 (Lesnoy) is a Russian closed town in Sverdlovsk Oblast historically associated with the Soviet nuclear weapons program and related defense industries.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sverdlovsk-44 | 3 |
| Sverdlovsk-44 (Lesnoy) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7320972 — 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: Sverdlovsk-44 (Lesnoy) Context triple: [Sverdlovsk Oblast, hasClosedCity, Sverdlovsk-44 (Lesnoy)]
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A.
Krasnopresnenskaya
Krasnopresnenskaya is a Moscow Metro station on the city’s circular Koltsevaya Line, known for its deep-level construction and Soviet-era architectural design.
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B.
Sverdlovsk-45 (Novouralsk)
Sverdlovsk-45, now known as Novouralsk, is a former secret Soviet closed city in Sverdlovsk Oblast that was a major center for the nuclear industry and uranium enrichment.
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C.
Novo-Ogaryovo
Novo-Ogaryovo is a suburban governmental estate outside Moscow that serves as one of the primary official residences of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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D.
Volokolamskaya
Volokolamskaya is a Moscow Metro station on the Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya Line serving the northwestern part of the city.
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E.
Rubtsovsk
Rubtsovsk is an industrial city in Altai Krai, Russia, known as the birthplace of Raisa Gorbacheva and for its role as a regional agricultural and machinery center.
- 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: Sverdlovsk-44 (Lesnoy) Target entity description: Sverdlovsk-44 (Lesnoy) is a Russian closed town in Sverdlovsk Oblast historically associated with the Soviet nuclear weapons program and related defense industries.
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A.
Krasnopresnenskaya
Krasnopresnenskaya is a Moscow Metro station on the city’s circular Koltsevaya Line, known for its deep-level construction and Soviet-era architectural design.
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B.
Sverdlovsk-45 (Novouralsk)
Sverdlovsk-45, now known as Novouralsk, is a former secret Soviet closed city in Sverdlovsk Oblast that was a major center for the nuclear industry and uranium enrichment.
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C.
Novo-Ogaryovo
Novo-Ogaryovo is a suburban governmental estate outside Moscow that serves as one of the primary official residences of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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D.
Volokolamskaya
Volokolamskaya is a Moscow Metro station on the Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya Line serving the northwestern part of the city.
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E.
Rubtsovsk
Rubtsovsk is an industrial city in Altai Krai, Russia, known as the birthplace of Raisa Gorbacheva and for its role as a regional agricultural and machinery center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
closed city
ⓘ
monotown ⓘ nuclear weapons production center ⓘ |
| accessRequires | special permit ⓘ |
| belongsToCategory |
Nuclear weapons infrastructure of Russia
ⓘ
Russian closed cities ⓘ |
| borderControlledBy | Russian Ministry of Defense ⓘ |
| coordinatesApproximate | 58.63°N 59.80°E ⓘ |
| country | Russia ⓘ |
| establishedAs | secret settlement for nuclear weapons production ⓘ |
| formerName |
Sverdlovsk-44
ⓘ
linked to:
Sverdlovsk-44 (Lesnoy)
|
| founded | 1947 ⓘ |
| governedAs | closed administrative-territorial formation ⓘ |
| governedBy | administration of the closed city of Lesnoy ⓘ |
| hasAccessStatus | restricted ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeDesignation | Lesnoy, Sverdlovsk Oblast ⓘ |
| hasCityStatus | town ⓘ |
| hasCurrentName | Lesnoy ⓘ |
| hasEconomicBase | state defense orders ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
assembly and maintenance of nuclear warheads
ⓘ
storage of nuclear materials ⓘ |
| hasMainEnterprise |
Electrochemical Plant (Lesnoy)
ⓘ
linked to:
Ural Electrochemical Integrated Plant
|
| hasMainIndustry |
defense industry
ⓘ
nuclear weapons production ⓘ |
| hasPopulationCharacteristic | small to medium-sized town ⓘ |
| hasSecurityInfrastructure |
checkpoints
ⓘ
perimeter fence ⓘ |
| hasTransportRestriction | no open railway passenger access without permit ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Cold War ⓘ |
| historicallyAssociatedWith |
Soviet defense industry
ⓘ
linked to:
Soviet military–industrial complex
Soviet nuclear weapons program ⓘ
linked to:
Soviet nuclear industry
nuclear warhead production ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Russian closed administrative-territorial formations ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Russian ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ural Mountains region
ⓘ
linked to:
Ural region
|
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Sverdlovsk Oblast ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | Russia ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Kachkanar
ⓘ
Nizhnyaya Tura ⓘ Serov ⓘ Verkhnyaya Tura ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Yakov Sverdlov (in code name only)
ⓘ
linked to:
Yakov Sverdlov
|
| partOf |
Soviet closed city system
ⓘ
Ural Federal District ⓘ |
| postalCodePattern | 624200–6242xx ⓘ |
| securityRegime | federal ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | town of oblast significance ⓘ |
| timeZone | Yekaterinburg Time ⓘ |
| usedFor | uranium enrichment for weapons ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +05:00 ⓘ |
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: Sverdlovsk-44 (Lesnoy) Description of subject: Sverdlovsk-44 (Lesnoy) is a Russian closed town in Sverdlovsk Oblast historically associated with the Soviet nuclear weapons program and related defense industries.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sverdlovsk-44 (Lesnoy)
linked to: Sverdlovsk-44 (Lesnoy)
subject linked to:
Sverdlovsk-44 (Lesnoy)
linked to: Sverdlovsk-44 (Lesnoy)