The Last Years
E234545
The Last Years is the concluding volume of Maxim Gorky’s epic novel cycle "The Life of Klim Samgin," depicting the final phase of its protagonist’s life amid the social and political upheavals of early 20th-century Russia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Last Years canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2109058 — 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: The Last Years Context triple: [The Life of Klim Samgin, volume, The Last Years]
-
A.
The Final Days
The Final Days is a nonfiction book by journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein that chronicles the tumultuous final months of Richard Nixon’s presidency and the Watergate scandal.
-
B.
The Final Hours
The Final Hours is a memoir by German Luftwaffe ace and later NATO commander Johannes Steinhoff, recounting his experiences during the final phase of World War II and its aftermath.
-
C.
War Without End
"War Without End" is a book by Michael Klare that analyzes the geopolitical, economic, and military dynamics driving perpetual global conflict in the post–Cold War era.
-
D.
Year of Sorrow
The Year of Sorrow is the period in early Islamic history marked by the deaths of the Prophet Muhammad’s wife Khadijah and his uncle Abu Talib, bringing him profound personal and social hardship.
-
E.
Das letzte Jahr
Das letzte Jahr is a work by German writer and actress Erika Mann, known for its reflection of the political and personal upheavals surrounding exile and the rise of Nazism.
- 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: The Last Years Target entity description: The Last Years is the concluding volume of Maxim Gorky’s epic novel cycle "The Life of Klim Samgin," depicting the final phase of its protagonist’s life amid the social and political upheavals of early 20th-century Russia.
-
A.
The Final Days
The Final Days is a nonfiction book by journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein that chronicles the tumultuous final months of Richard Nixon’s presidency and the Watergate scandal.
-
B.
The Final Hours
The Final Hours is a memoir by German Luftwaffe ace and later NATO commander Johannes Steinhoff, recounting his experiences during the final phase of World War II and its aftermath.
-
C.
War Without End
"War Without End" is a book by Michael Klare that analyzes the geopolitical, economic, and military dynamics driving perpetual global conflict in the post–Cold War era.
-
D.
Year of Sorrow
The Year of Sorrow is the period in early Islamic history marked by the deaths of the Prophet Muhammad’s wife Khadijah and his uncle Abu Talib, bringing him profound personal and social hardship.
-
E.
Das letzte Jahr
Das letzte Jahr is a work by German writer and actress Erika Mann, known for its reflection of the political and personal upheavals surrounding exile and the rise of Nazism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| author |
Maxim Gorky
ⓘ
linked to:
Maksim Gorky
|
| countryOfOrigin | Russia ⓘ |
| creator |
Maxim Gorky
ⓘ
linked to:
Maksim Gorky
|
| depicts |
life of the Russian intelligentsia
ⓘ
pre-revolutionary and revolutionary Russia ⓘ social and political changes in Russia ⓘ |
| genre |
historical novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ political novel ⓘ social novel ⓘ |
| hasCentralConflict |
individual versus historical forces
ⓘ
intellectual skepticism versus revolutionary commitment ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType | intellectual protagonist ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalContext | early 20th-century Russian history ⓘ |
| hasNarrativePerspective | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| hasTitleInEnglish | The Last Years ⓘ |
| isConcludingWorkOf | The Life of Klim Samgin ⓘ |
| literaryCycle | The Life of Klim Samgin ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Russian literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Klim Samgin ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | final phase of Klim Samgin’s life ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| partOf |
Klim Samgin tetralogy
ⓘ
The Life of Klim Samgin ⓘ |
| portrays | crisis of liberal intelligentsia in Russia ⓘ |
| positionInSeries | final volume ⓘ |
| protagonist | Klim Samgin ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Russia ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 20th-century Russia ⓘ |
| theme |
Russian Revolution era
ⓘ
decline of the Russian intelligentsia ⓘ intelligentsia and revolution ⓘ personal disillusionment ⓘ political upheaval ⓘ social upheaval ⓘ transition from Tsarist Russia to Soviet power ⓘ |
| workInSeriesAfter | Other volumes of The Life of Klim Samgin ⓘ |
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: The Last Years Description of subject: The Last Years is the concluding volume of Maxim Gorky’s epic novel cycle "The Life of Klim Samgin," depicting the final phase of its protagonist’s life amid the social and political upheavals of early 20th-century Russia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.