Gerasim
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Gerasim is the compassionate peasant servant in Leo Tolstoy’s novella "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," known for his honesty, simplicity, and humane care for the dying protagonist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gerasim canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T860532 — 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: Gerasim Context triple: [The Death of Ivan Ilyich, notableCharacter, Gerasim]
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A.
Gavril
Gavril is a masculine given name, commonly used in Slavic and Eastern European cultures, that derives from the Hebrew name Gabriel.
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B.
Vasily
Vasily is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Russian-speaking countries.
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C.
Foma Gordeyev
Foma Gordeyev is a novel by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that portrays the moral and spiritual decline of a wealthy merchant’s son amid the social tensions of late 19th-century Russia.
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D.
Viktor
Viktor is the given name of Viktor Frankl, the Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor who founded logotherapy and wrote "Man’s Search for Meaning."
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E.
Konstantin Vershinin
Konstantin Vershinin was a prominent Soviet military leader who served as a senior commander of the Soviet Air Forces during and after World War II.
- 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: Gerasim Target entity description: Gerasim is the compassionate peasant servant in Leo Tolstoy’s novella "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," known for his honesty, simplicity, and humane care for the dying protagonist.
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A.
Gavril
Gavril is a masculine given name, commonly used in Slavic and Eastern European cultures, that derives from the Hebrew name Gabriel.
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B.
Vasily
Vasily is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Russian-speaking countries.
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C.
Foma Gordeyev
Foma Gordeyev is a novel by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that portrays the moral and spiritual decline of a wealthy merchant’s son amid the social tensions of late 19th-century Russia.
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D.
Viktor
Viktor is the given name of Viktor Frankl, the Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor who founded logotherapy and wrote "Man’s Search for Meaning."
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E.
Konstantin Vershinin
Konstantin Vershinin was a prominent Soviet military leader who served as a senior commander of the Soviet Air Forces during and after World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ peasant ⓘ servant ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Death of Ivan Ilyich ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | novella ⓘ |
| appearsInLiteraryMovement | Realism ⓘ |
| caresFor | Ivan Ilyich during his final illness ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
compassionate
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honest ⓘ humane ⓘ simple ⓘ |
| createdBy | Leo Tolstoy ⓘ |
| embodiesTheme |
contrast between simple goodness and bourgeois hypocrisy
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dignity in suffering ⓘ human kindness ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Death of Ivan Ilyich ⓘ |
| languageContext | Russian literature ⓘ |
| moralFunctionInText | moral counterpoint to Ivan Ilyich’s social circle ⓘ |
| nationality | Russian ⓘ |
| occupation | servant ⓘ |
| providesCareFor |
Ivan Ilyich
ⓘ
linked to:
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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| relationshipTo | servant of Ivan Ilyich ⓘ |
| roleInWork | caregiver to the dying protagonist ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | household of Ivan Ilyich ⓘ |
| showsAttitudeToward |
Ivan Ilyich
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linked to:
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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| socialClass | peasant ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
acceptance of death
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authentic Christian compassion ⓘ peasant simplicity ⓘ |
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: Gerasim Description of subject: Gerasim is the compassionate peasant servant in Leo Tolstoy’s novella "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," known for his honesty, simplicity, and humane care for the dying protagonist.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.