Countess Anna Fedotovna

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Countess Anna Fedotovna is a wealthy, elderly aristocrat in Alexander Pushkin’s novella "The Queen of Spades," known for guarding the secret of a winning card formula that obsesses the protagonist Hermann.

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Label	Occurrences
Countess Anna Fedotovna canonical	6
Lizaveta Ivanovna to gain access to the Countess	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19320502 — 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: Countess Anna Fedotovna
Context triple: [Hermann, interactsWith, Countess Anna Fedotovna]

A. Catherine Dolgorukova
Catherine Dolgorukova was a Russian noblewoman who became the longtime mistress and later morganatic wife of Emperor Alexander II, wielding notable influence at his court in his later years.
B. Countess Yulia Samoilova
Countess Yulia Samoilova was a prominent 19th-century Russian aristocrat and patron of the arts, best known today as the subject of several celebrated paintings by Karl Bryullov.
C. Anna Petrovna, Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp
Anna Petrovna, Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, was a Russian grand duchess and daughter of Emperor Peter the Great and Empress Catherine I, whose marriage into the Holstein-Gottorp dynasty helped link the Russian imperial family with German princely houses.
D. Martha Ivanovna of Russia
Martha Ivanovna of Russia was a lesser-known Russian princess of the House of Romanov in the 17th century.
E. Margarita Ivanovna of Russia
Margarita Ivanovna of Russia was a Russian tsarevna, one of the daughters of Tsar Ivan V of Russia and a member of the Romanov dynasty.
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: Countess Anna Fedotovna
Target entity description: Countess Anna Fedotovna is a wealthy, elderly aristocrat in Alexander Pushkin’s novella "The Queen of Spades," known for guarding the secret of a winning card formula that obsesses the protagonist Hermann.

A. Catherine Dolgorukova
Catherine Dolgorukova was a Russian noblewoman who became the longtime mistress and later morganatic wife of Emperor Alexander II, wielding notable influence at his court in his later years.
B. Countess Yulia Samoilova
Countess Yulia Samoilova was a prominent 19th-century Russian aristocrat and patron of the arts, best known today as the subject of several celebrated paintings by Karl Bryullov.
C. Anna Petrovna, Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp
Anna Petrovna, Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, was a Russian grand duchess and daughter of Emperor Peter the Great and Empress Catherine I, whose marriage into the Holstein-Gottorp dynasty helped link the Russian imperial family with German princely houses.
D. Martha Ivanovna of Russia
Martha Ivanovna of Russia was a lesser-known Russian princess of the House of Romanov in the 17th century.
E. Margarita Ivanovna of Russia
Margarita Ivanovna of Russia was a Russian tsarevna, one of the daughters of Tsar Ivan V of Russia and a member of the Romanov dynasty.
F. None of above. chosen