Masha Maximow
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Masha Maximow is the protagonist of the cyber-thriller novel "Attack Surface," set in Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother universe and focused on surveillance, hacking, and digital civil liberties.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Masha Maximow canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1491136 — 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: Masha Maximow Context triple: [Attack Surface, mainCharacter, Masha Maximow]
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A.
Olga Naumova
Olga Naumova was the wife of renowned Russian-born conductor and double-bassist Serge Koussevitzky, accompanying him through the early part of his musical career.
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B.
Lidia Alexeeva
Lidia Alexeeva was a legendary Soviet basketball coach renowned for leading the USSR women’s national team to multiple Olympic and World Championship titles and is regarded as one of the greatest coaches in women’s basketball history.
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C.
Elena Milashina
Elena Milashina is a prominent Russian investigative journalist known for her reporting on human rights abuses, particularly in Chechnya, for the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
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D.
Anna Krylova
Anna Krylova was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning Soviet physicist Peter Kapitza.
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E.
Elena Bashkirova
Elena Bashkirova is a Russian-born pianist and renowned chamber musician who is also the founder and artistic director of the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
- 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: Masha Maximow Target entity description: Masha Maximow is the protagonist of the cyber-thriller novel "Attack Surface," set in Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother universe and focused on surveillance, hacking, and digital civil liberties.
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A.
Olga Naumova
Olga Naumova was the wife of renowned Russian-born conductor and double-bassist Serge Koussevitzky, accompanying him through the early part of his musical career.
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B.
Lidia Alexeeva
Lidia Alexeeva was a legendary Soviet basketball coach renowned for leading the USSR women’s national team to multiple Olympic and World Championship titles and is regarded as one of the greatest coaches in women’s basketball history.
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C.
Elena Milashina
Elena Milashina is a prominent Russian investigative journalist known for her reporting on human rights abuses, particularly in Chechnya, for the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
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D.
Anna Krylova
Anna Krylova was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning Soviet physicist Peter Kapitza.
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E.
Elena Bashkirova
Elena Bashkirova is a Russian-born pianist and renowned chamber musician who is also the founder and artistic director of the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsInUniverse |
Little Brother
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surface form:
Little Brother universe
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| appearsInWork | Attack Surface ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
activism
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civil rights in the digital age ⓘ corporate surveillance ⓘ information security ⓘ privacy ⓘ state surveillance ⓘ whistleblowing ⓘ |
| characterRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| createdBy | Cory Doctorow ⓘ |
| genreContext | cyber-thriller ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
digital civil liberties
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hacking ⓘ surveillance ⓘ |
| primaryConflictDomain |
security versus freedom
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technology and power ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Attack Surface ⓘ |
| relatedToConcept |
cybersecurity
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digital resistance ⓘ encryption ⓘ hacker ethics ⓘ mass surveillance ⓘ |
| setInFictionalWorldOf | Little Brother ⓘ |
| workPublicationForm | book ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Masha Maximow Description of subject: Masha Maximow is the protagonist of the cyber-thriller novel "Attack Surface," set in Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother universe and focused on surveillance, hacking, and digital civil liberties.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.