Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka
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Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka is the timid, provincial landowner protagonist of Nikolai Gogol’s comic short story “Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt.”
All labels observed (1)
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| Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21681921 — 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: Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka Context triple: [Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt, mainCharacter, Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka]
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A.
Iván Petrovich
Iván Petrovich was a Serbian-born film actor prominent in European and early Hollywood cinema during the silent and early sound eras.
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B.
Ivan Fedyuninsky
Ivan Fedyuninsky was a Soviet military commander and World War II general renowned for his leadership in several key Eastern Front operations.
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C.
Ivan Samoylovych
Ivan Samoylovych was a 17th-century Hetman of Left-bank Ukraine who played a key role in Cossack politics and military campaigns under the Russian Tsardom.
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D.
Ivan Dmitrievich Kasatkin
Ivan Dmitrievich Kasatkin, better known as Nicholas of Japan, was a Russian Orthodox priest and missionary who became the first Orthodox bishop in Japan and played a key role in establishing the Japanese Orthodox Church.
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E.
Alyosha Skvortsov
Alyosha Skvortsov is the young, idealistic Soviet soldier who serves as the central protagonist in the classic 1959 war film "Ballad of a Soldier."
- 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: Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka Target entity description: Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka is the timid, provincial landowner protagonist of Nikolai Gogol’s comic short story “Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt.”
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A.
Iván Petrovich
Iván Petrovich was a Serbian-born film actor prominent in European and early Hollywood cinema during the silent and early sound eras.
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B.
Ivan Fedyuninsky
Ivan Fedyuninsky was a Soviet military commander and World War II general renowned for his leadership in several key Eastern Front operations.
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C.
Ivan Samoylovych
Ivan Samoylovych was a 17th-century Hetman of Left-bank Ukraine who played a key role in Cossack politics and military campaigns under the Russian Tsardom.
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D.
Ivan Dmitrievich Kasatkin
Ivan Dmitrievich Kasatkin, better known as Nicholas of Japan, was a Russian Orthodox priest and missionary who became the first Orthodox bishop in Japan and played a key role in establishing the Japanese Orthodox Church.
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E.
Alyosha Skvortsov
Alyosha Skvortsov is the young, idealistic Soviet soldier who serves as the central protagonist in the classic 1959 war film "Ballad of a Soldier."
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.