Peshkov
E336064
Russian-language surname
essayist
human
novelist
pen name
playwright
political activist
short story writer
surname
writer
Peshkov is a Russian surname most famously borne by Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, better known by his pen name Maxim Gorky, a prominent writer and political activist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peshkov canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3172112 — 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: Peshkov Context triple: [Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, familyName, Peshkov]
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A.
Lukyanov
Lukyanov is a Russian surname borne by various notable figures in politics, science, and the arts.
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B.
Chernyakhovsky
Chernyakhovsky is a Slavic surname most notably associated with Soviet General Ivan Chernyakhovsky, a prominent commander during World War II.
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C.
Krasnov
Krasnov is a Russian surname borne by various notable figures in military, political, and cultural history.
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D.
Pozdnyshev
Pozdnyshev is the tormented, jealous husband and central narrator of Leo Tolstoy’s novella "The Kreutzer Sonata," whose confession of murdering his wife drives the story’s exploration of marriage, sexuality, and morality.
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E.
Pugachyov
Pugachyov is a small town in southwestern Russia known for its location on the Bolshoy Irgiz River within Saratov Oblast.
- 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: Peshkov Target entity description: Peshkov is a Russian surname most famously borne by Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, better known by his pen name Maxim Gorky, a prominent writer and political activist.
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A.
Lukyanov
Lukyanov is a Russian surname borne by various notable figures in politics, science, and the arts.
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B.
Chernyakhovsky
Chernyakhovsky is a Slavic surname most notably associated with Soviet General Ivan Chernyakhovsky, a prominent commander during World War II.
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C.
Krasnov
Krasnov is a Russian surname borne by various notable figures in military, political, and cultural history.
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D.
Pozdnyshev
Pozdnyshev is the tormented, jealous husband and central narrator of Leo Tolstoy’s novella "The Kreutzer Sonata," whose confession of murdering his wife drives the story’s exploration of marriage, sexuality, and morality.
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E.
Pugachyov
Pugachyov is a small town in southwestern Russia known for its location on the Bolshoy Irgiz River within Saratov Oblast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Russian-language surname
ⓘ
essayist ⓘ human ⓘ novelist ⓘ pen name ⓘ playwright ⓘ political activist ⓘ short story writer ⓘ surname ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Russian Empire
ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ |
| familyName | Peshkov self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Alexei Maximovich Peshkov ⓘ |
| hasPenName |
Maksim Gorky
ⓘ
surface form:
Maxim Gorky
|
| languageOfOrigin | Russian ⓘ |
| movement |
Russian realism
ⓘ
socialist realism ⓘ |
| notableFor | depictions of social injustice in Russia ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Mother
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My Childhood ⓘ The Lower Depths ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ |
| penNameOf | Alexei Maximovich Peshkov ⓘ |
| politicalActivity | support for Bolsheviks ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | socialist ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Cyrillic script ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Peshkov Description of subject: Peshkov is a Russian surname most famously borne by Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, better known by his pen name Maxim Gorky, a prominent writer and political activist.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov