Lev Beniov
E420256
Lev Beniov is the teenage Jewish protagonist and narrator of David Benioff’s World War II novel "City of Thieves," who survives the Siege of Leningrad through a mix of wit, fear, and reluctant bravery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lev Beniov canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3633256 — 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: Lev Beniov Context triple: [City of Thieves, mainCharacter, Lev Beniov]
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A.
Victor Kugler
Victor Kugler was one of the Dutch helpers who risked his life to hide Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
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B.
Vasily Geltser
Vasily Geltser was a 19th-century Russian ballet figure known for his work as a librettist and contributor to the development of classical Russian ballet.
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C.
Ivan Briukhovetsky
Ivan Briukhovetsky was a 17th-century Ukrainian Cossack leader who served as Hetman of the Left-bank Cossack Hetmanate and was known for his controversial alliance with Muscovy.
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D.
Anatoly Virgansky
Anatoly Virgansky is best known as the husband of Irina Virganskaya, the daughter of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
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E.
Vladimir Olberg
Vladimir Olberg was a Russian revolutionary and political activist who became one of the defendants in the 1931 Soviet show trial known as the Trial of the Sixteen.
- 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: Lev Beniov Target entity description: Lev Beniov is the teenage Jewish protagonist and narrator of David Benioff’s World War II novel "City of Thieves," who survives the Siege of Leningrad through a mix of wit, fear, and reluctant bravery.
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A.
Victor Kugler
Victor Kugler was one of the Dutch helpers who risked his life to hide Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
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B.
Vasily Geltser
Vasily Geltser was a 19th-century Russian ballet figure known for his work as a librettist and contributor to the development of classical Russian ballet.
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C.
Ivan Briukhovetsky
Ivan Briukhovetsky was a 17th-century Ukrainian Cossack leader who served as Hetman of the Left-bank Cossack Hetmanate and was known for his controversial alliance with Muscovy.
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D.
Anatoly Virgansky
Anatoly Virgansky is best known as the husband of Irina Virganskaya, the daughter of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
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E.
Vladimir Olberg
Vladimir Olberg was a Russian revolutionary and political activist who became one of the defendants in the 1931 Soviet show trial known as the Trial of the Sixteen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| age | teenager ⓘ |
| appearsIn | City of Thieves ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Red Army
ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
fearful
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reluctantly brave ⓘ witty ⓘ |
| createdBy | David Benioff ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Jewish ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFriend | Kolya ⓘ |
| literaryGenreContext | historical fiction ⓘ |
| livesIn | Leningrad ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| narratorOf | City of Thieves ⓘ |
| nationality | Soviet ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | City of Thieves ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| roleInStory | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| settingOfLife | Leningrad during World War II ⓘ |
| survives | Siege of Leningrad ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Siege of Leningrad
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World War II ⓘ |
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: Lev Beniov Description of subject: Lev Beniov is the teenage Jewish protagonist and narrator of David Benioff’s World War II novel "City of Thieves," who survives the Siege of Leningrad through a mix of wit, fear, and reluctant bravery.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.