August 1991 Soviet coup attempt

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coup d'état attempt event in the dissolution of the Soviet Union political crisis

The August 1991 Soviet coup attempt was a failed hardline effort to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev and halt his reforms, which accelerated the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Label	Occurrences
1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt	10
August 1991 Soviet coup attempt canonical	7
1991 Soviet coup d’état attempt	6
August 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt	3
August Coup	3
1991 August Coup	2
1991 Soviet coup attempt	1
Soviet coup attempt of August 1991	1
Soviet political crisis of 1991	1
августовский путч 1991 года	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T86650 — 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: August 1991 Soviet coup attempt
Context triple: [Communist Party of the Soviet Union, associatedWithEvent, August 1991 Soviet coup attempt]

A. Prague Spring
Prague Spring was a brief period of political liberalization and reform in communist Czechoslovakia in 1968 that was ultimately crushed by a Soviet-led invasion.
B. Hungarian Revolution of 1956
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a nationwide uprising against Soviet-imposed policies and control in Hungary, briefly challenging communist rule before being violently suppressed by Soviet forces.
C. May Coup of 1926
The May Coup of 1926 was a military takeover led by Józef Piłsudski that overthrew Poland’s democratic government and ushered in the authoritarian Sanation regime in the Second Polish Republic.
D. Beer Hall Putsch
The Beer Hall Putsch was a failed 1923 coup attempt by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Munich that, despite its collapse, helped propel Hitler to national prominence in Germany.
E. fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was a pivotal moment in modern history that symbolized the collapse of communist rule in Eastern Europe and the approaching end of the Cold 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: August 1991 Soviet coup attempt
Target entity description: The August 1991 Soviet coup attempt was a failed hardline effort to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev and halt his reforms, which accelerated the collapse of the Soviet Union.

A. Prague Spring
Prague Spring was a brief period of political liberalization and reform in communist Czechoslovakia in 1968 that was ultimately crushed by a Soviet-led invasion.
B. Hungarian Revolution of 1956
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a nationwide uprising against Soviet-imposed policies and control in Hungary, briefly challenging communist rule before being violently suppressed by Soviet forces.
C. May Coup of 1926
The May Coup of 1926 was a military takeover led by Józef Piłsudski that overthrew Poland’s democratic government and ushered in the authoritarian Sanation regime in the Second Polish Republic.
D. Beer Hall Putsch
The Beer Hall Putsch was a failed 1923 coup attempt by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Munich that, despite its collapse, helped propel Hitler to national prominence in Germany.
E. fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was a pivotal moment in modern history that symbolized the collapse of communist rule in Eastern Europe and the approaching end of the Cold War.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	coup d'état attempt ⓘ event in the dissolution of the Soviet Union ⓘ political crisis ⓘ
aimedAt	halt of perestroika reforms ⓘ preservation of the Soviet Union in centralized form ⓘ removal of Mikhail Gorbachev from power ⓘ
country	Soviet Union ⓘ
endDate	1991-08-21 ⓘ
followedBy	Belavezha Accords ⓘ formal dissolution of the Soviet Union ⓘ
hasAlias	1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt ⓘ linked to: August 1991 Soviet coup attempt August Coup ⓘ linked to: August 1991 Soviet coup attempt GKChP coup ⓘ
hasCasualties	civilian deaths in Moscow ⓘ
hasParticipant	Anatoly Lukyanov ⓘ Boris Pugo ⓘ Boris Yeltsin ⓘ Dmitry Yazov ⓘ Gennady Yanayev ⓘ Mikhail Gorbachev ⓘ Oleg Baklanov ⓘ Valentin Pavlov ⓘ Vladimir Kryuchkov ⓘ
keyEvent	Boris Yeltsin's speech from a tank outside the Russian White House ⓘ
legalOutcome	arrest of coup leaders ⓘ subsequent trials of GKChP members ⓘ
location	Moscow ⓘ Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ⓘ linked to: Russian SFSR
mediaTypeDepiction	documentary films about the August Coup ⓘ historical studies on the collapse of the USSR ⓘ
opposedBy	Boris Yeltsin ⓘ Russian democratic movement ⓘ
organizedBy	State Committee on the State of Emergency in the USSR ⓘ
precededBy	glasnost policy ⓘ perestroika reforms ⓘ
result	accelerated dissolution of the Soviet Union ⓘ banning of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Russia ⓘ failure of the coup ⓘ restoration of Mikhail Gorbachev to office ⓘ strengthening of Boris Yeltsin's political position ⓘ suspension of Communist Party activities in Russia ⓘ
significance	major step toward end of one-party rule in the Soviet Union ⓘ turning point in Russian political history ⓘ
startDate	1991-08-19 ⓘ
timePeriod	late Cold War ⓘ
triggeredBy	planned signing of the New Union Treaty ⓘ
usedMethod	control of state media ⓘ declaration of state of emergency ⓘ deployment of military units in Moscow ⓘ

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