How the Steel Was Tempered
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How the Steel Was Tempered is a classic socialist realist novel by Nikolai Ostrovsky that follows the ideological and personal formation of a young Bolshevik during the Russian Civil War and early Soviet era.
All labels observed (1)
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| How the Steel Was Tempered canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1947367 — 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: How the Steel Was Tempered Context triple: [Soviet literature, notableWork, How the Steel Was Tempered]
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A.
Doctor Zhivago (novel)
Doctor Zhivago (novel) is Boris Pasternak’s epic 1957 Russian novel that follows the life and loves of a physician-poet amid the turmoil of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath.
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B.
The Life of Klim Samgin
The Life of Klim Samgin is a multi-volume novel by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that chronicles the life of an intellectual protagonist against the backdrop of Russia’s social and political upheavals from the late 19th century to the 1917 Revolution.
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C.
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago is a classic 1965 epic romantic drama film set during the Russian Revolution, renowned for its sweeping cinematography, tragic love story, and Omar Sharif’s iconic lead performance.
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D.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a landmark Russian novella that offers a stark, detailed portrayal of a single day in a Soviet labor camp, exposing the brutality and dehumanization of the Gulag system.
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E.
A Russian Childhood
"A Russian Childhood" is an autobiographical work by pioneering Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya, recounting her early life and formative experiences in 19th-century Russia.
- 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: How the Steel Was Tempered Target entity description: How the Steel Was Tempered is a classic socialist realist novel by Nikolai Ostrovsky that follows the ideological and personal formation of a young Bolshevik during the Russian Civil War and early Soviet era.
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A.
Doctor Zhivago (novel)
Doctor Zhivago (novel) is Boris Pasternak’s epic 1957 Russian novel that follows the life and loves of a physician-poet amid the turmoil of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath.
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B.
The Life of Klim Samgin
The Life of Klim Samgin is a multi-volume novel by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that chronicles the life of an intellectual protagonist against the backdrop of Russia’s social and political upheavals from the late 19th century to the 1917 Revolution.
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C.
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago is a classic 1965 epic romantic drama film set during the Russian Revolution, renowned for its sweeping cinematography, tragic love story, and Omar Sharif’s iconic lead performance.
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D.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a landmark Russian novella that offers a stark, detailed portrayal of a single day in a Soviet labor camp, exposing the brutality and dehumanization of the Gulag system.
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E.
A Russian Childhood
"A Russian Childhood" is an autobiographical work by pioneering Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya, recounting her early life and formative experiences in 19th-century Russia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soviet novel
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novel ⓘ socialist realist novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
film
ⓘ
stage play ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| author | Nikolai Ostrovsky ⓘ |
| basedOn | Nikolai Ostrovsky's own experiences ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| follows | life of a young Bolshevik ⓘ |
| genre |
bildungsroman
ⓘ
political novel ⓘ socialist realism ⓘ |
| hasAutobiographicalElements | true ⓘ |
| ideologicalFunction | model of the ideal Soviet citizen ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Leninism
ⓘ
surface form:
Bolshevik Party ideology
Marxism–Leninism ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Russian ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | socialist realism ⓘ |
| literaryStatus |
classic of Soviet literature
ⓘ
classic of socialist realist literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Pavel Korchagin ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation |
Russian Empire
ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Rita Ustinovich
ⓘ
Tonia Toumanova ⓘ Zhukhrai ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| portrays |
Komsomol youth
ⓘ
Red Army ⓘ
surface form:
Red Army fighters
civil war hardships ⓘ physical disability of the protagonist ⓘ |
| promotes |
devotion to the Communist Party
ⓘ
selfless labor for socialism ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| setDuring |
Russian Civil War
ⓘ
early Soviet era ⓘ |
| symbolism | steel as metaphor for character formation ⓘ |
| targetAudience | Soviet youth ⓘ |
| theme |
Bolshevik ideology
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class struggle ⓘ collectivism ⓘ formation of communist consciousness ⓘ heroism ⓘ personal sacrifice ⓘ revolutionary struggle ⓘ self-discipline ⓘ |
| usedAs | educational reading in the Soviet Union ⓘ |
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