Brest-Litovsk
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Brest-Litovsk is a historic city—now called Brest in modern-day Belarus—best known as the site where Soviet Russia signed a separate peace with the Central Powers in 1918 during World War I.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brest-Litovsk canonical | 6 |
| Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty negotiations | 1 |
| Brest-Litowsk | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T715839 — 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: Brest-Litovsk Context triple: [Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, signedIn, Brest-Litovsk]
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A.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a 1918 peace agreement in which Bolshevik Russia exited World War I by ceding vast territories to the Central Powers, profoundly reshaping Eastern Europe and influencing the course of the Russian Civil War.
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Treaty of Riga
The Treaty of Riga was the 1921 peace agreement that ended hostilities between Poland and Soviet Russia (and Soviet Ukraine), redrew their borders, and concluded the Polish–Soviet War.
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Elisavetpol
Elisavetpol was a historical city in the Russian Empire, located in the South Caucasus region and known today as Ganja in modern Azerbaijan.
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D.
Moscow Peace Treaty
The Moscow Peace Treaty was the 1940 agreement that ended the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union, forcing Finland to cede significant territories to the USSR.
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Treaty of San Stefano
The Treaty of San Stefano was an 1878 peace agreement between Russia and the Ottoman Empire that ended the Russo-Turkish War and significantly redrew the map of the Balkans and parts of the Caucasus.
- 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: Brest-Litovsk Target entity description: Brest-Litovsk is a historic city—now called Brest in modern-day Belarus—best known as the site where Soviet Russia signed a separate peace with the Central Powers in 1918 during World War I.
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A.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a 1918 peace agreement in which Bolshevik Russia exited World War I by ceding vast territories to the Central Powers, profoundly reshaping Eastern Europe and influencing the course of the Russian Civil War.
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B.
Treaty of Riga
The Treaty of Riga was the 1921 peace agreement that ended hostilities between Poland and Soviet Russia (and Soviet Ukraine), redrew their borders, and concluded the Polish–Soviet War.
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C.
Elisavetpol
Elisavetpol was a historical city in the Russian Empire, located in the South Caucasus region and known today as Ganja in modern Azerbaijan.
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D.
Moscow Peace Treaty
The Moscow Peace Treaty was the 1940 agreement that ended the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union, forcing Finland to cede significant territories to the USSR.
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E.
Treaty of San Stefano
The Treaty of San Stefano was an 1878 peace agreement between Russia and the Ottoman Empire that ended the Russo-Turkish War and significantly redrew the map of the Balkans and parts of the Caucasus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Brest-Litovsk Description of subject: Brest-Litovsk is a historic city—now called Brest in modern-day Belarus—best known as the site where Soviet Russia signed a separate peace with the Central Powers in 1918 during World War I.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Brest-Litovsk
linked to: Brest-Litovsk