Anna Karenina
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Anna Karenina is a classic 19th-century Russian novel that explores themes of love, infidelity, and social hypocrisy through the tragic life of its aristocratic heroine.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T152684 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Anna Karenina Context triple: [Leo Tolstoy, notableWork, Anna Karenina]
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War and Peace
War and Peace is a monumental 19th-century Russian novel that intertwines the lives of aristocratic families with the historical events of the Napoleonic Wars, exploring themes of history, fate, and human nature.
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a novella by Leo Tolstoy that explores the existential and spiritual crisis of a dying Russian judge confronting the meaning of his life.
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The Kreutzer Sonata
The Kreutzer Sonata is a controversial novella by Leo Tolstoy that explores themes of jealousy, marriage, sexuality, and moral hypocrisy through a husband's confession of murdering his wife.
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Three Sisters
Three Sisters is a group of three prominent stratovolcanoes in the central Oregon Cascades, known for their distinctive clustered peaks and popular hiking and climbing terrain.
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E.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
- 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: Anna Karenina Target entity description: Anna Karenina is a classic 19th-century Russian novel that explores themes of love, infidelity, and social hypocrisy through the tragic life of its aristocratic heroine.
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A.
War and Peace
War and Peace is a monumental 19th-century Russian novel that intertwines the lives of aristocratic families with the historical events of the Napoleonic Wars, exploring themes of history, fate, and human nature.
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B.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a novella by Leo Tolstoy that explores the existential and spiritual crisis of a dying Russian judge confronting the meaning of his life.
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C.
The Kreutzer Sonata
The Kreutzer Sonata is a controversial novella by Leo Tolstoy that explores themes of jealousy, marriage, sexuality, and moral hypocrisy through a husband's confession of murdering his wife.
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D.
Three Sisters
Three Sisters is a group of three prominent stratovolcanoes in the central Oregon Cascades, known for their distinctive clustered peaks and popular hiking and climbing terrain.
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E.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
ballet
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film ⓘ opera ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| author | Leo Tolstoy ⓘ |
| centralRelationship | Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russia ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDate | 1877 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The Russian Messenger ⓘ |
| genre |
psychological novel
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realist novel ⓘ tragic novel ⓘ |
| hasSubplot | Levin and Kitty’s courtship and marriage ⓘ |
| hasTragicEnding | true ⓘ |
| initialPublicationFormat | serial ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Realism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin
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Anna Arkadyevna Karenina ⓘ Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky ⓘ
linked to:
Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin
Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya ⓘ Konstantin Dmitrievich Levin ⓘ Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person omniscient ⓘ |
| notableQuote | All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| parallelPlotContrast | Anna and Vronsky versus Levin and Kitty ⓘ |
| placeInCanon | considered one of the greatest novels of world literature ⓘ |
| publicationBegan | 1873 ⓘ |
| publicationEnded | 1877 ⓘ |
| publisher | The Russian Messenger (serial) ⓘ |
| settingCity |
Moscow
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Saint Petersburg ⓘ
linked to:
St. Petersburg
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| settingCountry | Russia ⓘ |
| settingRegion | Russian countryside ⓘ |
| structure | eight parts ⓘ |
| theme |
Russian aristocracy
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adultery ⓘ faith ⓘ family ⓘ individual versus society ⓘ love ⓘ marriage ⓘ morality ⓘ social hypocrisy ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFiction | late 19th century ⓘ |
| workLocationOfAuthor | Yasnaya Polyana ⓘ |
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Subject: Anna Karenina Description of subject: Anna Karenina is a classic 19th-century Russian novel that explores themes of love, infidelity, and social hypocrisy through the tragic life of its aristocratic heroine.
Referenced by (37)
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subject linked to:
The Russian Messenger (serial)
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Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya
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Anna Karenina (serialized 1873–1877)
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linked to: Anna Karenina
subject linked to:
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (person’s given name)