Bolkonsky family
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The Bolkonsky family is a prominent noble household in Leo Tolstoy’s novel "War and Peace," known for its strict patriarch Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky and his children, including Prince Andrei and Princess Marya.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bolkonsky family canonical | 3 |
| the Bolkonsky family | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4523566 — 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: Bolkonsky family Context triple: [Princess Marya Bolkonskaya, associatedWith, Bolkonsky family]
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Tolstoy family
The Tolstoy family is a prominent Russian noble lineage best known for producing the famed writer Leo Tolstoy and several other influential figures in Russian cultural and political life.
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Vorontsov family
The Vorontsov family was a prominent Russian noble lineage that held high-ranking political and military positions in the Russian Empire and became notable patrons of architecture and the arts.
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Bakunin family
The Bakunin family was a prominent Russian noble lineage best known for producing the revolutionary anarchist thinker Mikhail Bakunin.
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Carpzov family
The Carpzov family was a prominent German dynasty of jurists and theologians influential in Saxony during the early modern period.
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E.
Ulyanov family
The Ulyanov family is the Russian family of Vladimir Lenin, whose surname and legacy have been commemorated in various place names and institutions across 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: Bolkonsky family Target entity description: The Bolkonsky family is a prominent noble household in Leo Tolstoy’s novel "War and Peace," known for its strict patriarch Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky and his children, including Prince Andrei and Princess Marya.
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Tolstoy family
The Tolstoy family is a prominent Russian noble lineage best known for producing the famed writer Leo Tolstoy and several other influential figures in Russian cultural and political life.
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B.
Vorontsov family
The Vorontsov family was a prominent Russian noble lineage that held high-ranking political and military positions in the Russian Empire and became notable patrons of architecture and the arts.
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C.
Bakunin family
The Bakunin family was a prominent Russian noble lineage best known for producing the revolutionary anarchist thinker Mikhail Bakunin.
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D.
Carpzov family
The Carpzov family was a prominent German dynasty of jurists and theologians influential in Saxony during the early modern period.
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E.
Ulyanov family
The Ulyanov family is the Russian family of Vladimir Lenin, whose surname and legacy have been commemorated in various place names and institutions across Russia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional family
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literary character group ⓘ noble family ⓘ |
| appearsIn | War and Peace ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | historical novel ⓘ |
| associatedPlace | Bald Hills estate ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Rostov family ⓘ |
| createdBy | Leo Tolstoy ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | War and Peace first published 1865–1869 ⓘ |
| hasSurnameForm |
Bolkonskaya
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linked to:
Princess Marya Bolkonskaya
Bolkonsky ⓘ
linked to:
Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky
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| knownFor |
military service tradition
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religious devotion ⓘ strict upbringing ⓘ |
| language | Russian ⓘ |
| literaryRole | central family in War and Peace ⓘ |
| member |
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky ⓘ Princess Liza Bolkonskaya ⓘ Princess Marya Bolkonskaya ⓘ |
| nationality | Russian ⓘ |
| patriarch | Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky ⓘ |
| relatedTheme |
duty
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family relationships ⓘ spirituality ⓘ war and peace ⓘ
linked to:
War and Peace
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| setInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| setInCountry | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| socialClass | Russian nobility ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
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: Bolkonsky family Description of subject: The Bolkonsky family is a prominent noble household in Leo Tolstoy’s novel "War and Peace," known for its strict patriarch Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky and his children, including Prince Andrei and Princess Marya.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.