Ostap Bender
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Ostap Bender is a fictional, sharp-witted con artist and antihero from Soviet literature, best known as the scheming protagonist of Ilf and Petrov’s satirical novels.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ostap | 1 |
| Ostap Bender canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15441004 — 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: Ostap Bender Context triple: [The Twelve Chairs (1970 film), character, Ostap Bender]
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A.
Nozdryov
Nozdryov is a boisterous, dishonest, and troublemaking landowner in Nikolai Gogol's novel "Dead Souls," known for his compulsive lying and love of gambling and chaos.
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B.
Peter Tarnopol
Peter Tarnopol is the neurotic, self-analytical protagonist and writer figure in Philip Roth’s novel "My Life as a Man," often seen as a semi-autobiographical alter ego of the author.
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C.
Anton Vanko
Anton Vanko is a Soviet scientist and engineer in the Marvel universe, best known as the original Crimson Dynamo and the father of Ivan Vanko.
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D.
Boris
Boris is a fictional character appearing in Jean-Paul Sartre’s novel cycle "The Roads to Freedom."
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E.
Boris
Boris is the given name of Boris Johnson, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and prominent British Conservative politician.
- 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: Ostap Bender Target entity description: Ostap Bender is a fictional, sharp-witted con artist and antihero from Soviet literature, best known as the scheming protagonist of Ilf and Petrov’s satirical novels.
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A.
Nozdryov
Nozdryov is a boisterous, dishonest, and troublemaking landowner in Nikolai Gogol's novel "Dead Souls," known for his compulsive lying and love of gambling and chaos.
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B.
Peter Tarnopol
Peter Tarnopol is the neurotic, self-analytical protagonist and writer figure in Philip Roth’s novel "My Life as a Man," often seen as a semi-autobiographical alter ego of the author.
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C.
Anton Vanko
Anton Vanko is a Soviet scientist and engineer in the Marvel universe, best known as the original Crimson Dynamo and the father of Ivan Vanko.
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D.
Boris
Boris is a fictional character appearing in Jean-Paul Sartre’s novel cycle "The Roads to Freedom."
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E.
Boris
Boris is the given name of Boris Johnson, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and prominent British Conservative politician.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ostap Bender