Sobakevich
E535113
Sobakevich is a solid, bear-like landowner in Nikolai Gogol's novel "Dead Souls," known for his blunt practicality and coarse materialism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sobakevich canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5638380 — 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: Sobakevich Context triple: [Dead Souls, containsCharacter, Sobakevich]
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A.
Pozdnyshev
Pozdnyshev is the tormented, jealous husband and central narrator of Leo Tolstoy’s novella "The Kreutzer Sonata," whose confession of murdering his wife drives the story’s exploration of marriage, sexuality, and morality.
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B.
Peshkov
Peshkov is a Russian surname most famously borne by Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, better known by his pen name Maxim Gorky, a prominent writer and political activist.
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C.
Yagoda
Yagoda is a Russian surname most notably associated with Genrikh Yagoda, a Soviet secret police official and early head of the NKVD under Joseph Stalin.
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D.
Muravyov-Karsky
Muravyov-Karsky was a 19th-century Russian general best known for his prominent role in the Russo-Turkish wars and the conquest of Kars in the Caucasus.
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E.
Bérégovoy
Bérégovoy is the surname of Pierre Bérégovoy, a prominent French Socialist politician who served as Prime Minister of France in the early 1990s.
- 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: Sobakevich Target entity description: Sobakevich is a solid, bear-like landowner in Nikolai Gogol's novel "Dead Souls," known for his blunt practicality and coarse materialism.
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A.
Pozdnyshev
Pozdnyshev is the tormented, jealous husband and central narrator of Leo Tolstoy’s novella "The Kreutzer Sonata," whose confession of murdering his wife drives the story’s exploration of marriage, sexuality, and morality.
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B.
Peshkov
Peshkov is a Russian surname most famously borne by Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, better known by his pen name Maxim Gorky, a prominent writer and political activist.
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C.
Yagoda
Yagoda is a Russian surname most notably associated with Genrikh Yagoda, a Soviet secret police official and early head of the NKVD under Joseph Stalin.
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D.
Muravyov-Karsky
Muravyov-Karsky was a 19th-century Russian general best known for his prominent role in the Russo-Turkish wars and the conquest of Kars in the Caucasus.
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E.
Bérégovoy
Bérégovoy is the surname of Pierre Bérégovoy, a prominent French Socialist politician who served as Prime Minister of France in the early 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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landowner ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Dead Souls ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
Russian literature
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satirical novel ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
Russian provincial landowning class
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coarse materialism ⓘ greed ⓘ practicality ⓘ |
| characterIn | Dead Souls ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| creator | Nikolai Gogol ⓘ |
| describedAs |
bear-like
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coarse ⓘ practical ⓘ solid ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| interactsWith |
Pavel Chichikov
ⓘ
linked to:
Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov
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| literaryRole |
minor antagonist
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satirical figure ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
embodies physical strength and moral coarseness
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satirizes landowner brutality ⓘ |
| occupation | landowner ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
blunt
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materialistic ⓘ |
| relationshipToOtherCharacter | sells dead serfs to Chichikov ⓘ |
| timePeriodFictionalSetting | 19th-century Russia ⓘ |
| workOriginalLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
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: Sobakevich Description of subject: Sobakevich is a solid, bear-like landowner in Nikolai Gogol's novel "Dead Souls," known for his blunt practicality and coarse materialism.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.