General Epanchin
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General Epanchin is a prominent fictional Russian military officer and family patriarch in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel "The Idiot," known for his role in the social and familial intrigues surrounding Prince Myshkin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| General Epanchin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6361544 — 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: General Epanchin Context triple: [The Idiot, mainCharacter, General Epanchin]
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A.
Dmitri Gurov
Dmitri Gurov is the disillusioned Moscow banker and womanizer whose unexpected, transformative love affair drives the plot of Anton Chekhov’s short story "The Lady with the Dog."
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B.
Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin
Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin is the psychologically tormented government clerk in Dostoevsky’s novella "The Double," whose life unravels when a confident doppelgänger appears and begins to usurp his identity.
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C.
Pyotr Verkhovensky
Pyotr Verkhovensky is a manipulative revolutionary agitator and central instigator of chaos in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel "Demons."
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D.
Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin
Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin is a high-ranking, emotionally reserved government official in Leo Tolstoy’s novel "Anna Karenina," known primarily as Anna’s older, conservative husband whose rigid morality contrasts with her passionate nature.
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E.
Nikolai Stavrogin
Nikolai Stavrogin is the enigmatic, morally tormented aristocrat at the center of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel "Demons," embodying the spiritual and ideological crisis of 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: General Epanchin Target entity description: General Epanchin is a prominent fictional Russian military officer and family patriarch in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel "The Idiot," known for his role in the social and familial intrigues surrounding Prince Myshkin.
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A.
Dmitri Gurov
Dmitri Gurov is the disillusioned Moscow banker and womanizer whose unexpected, transformative love affair drives the plot of Anton Chekhov’s short story "The Lady with the Dog."
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B.
Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin
Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin is the psychologically tormented government clerk in Dostoevsky’s novella "The Double," whose life unravels when a confident doppelgänger appears and begins to usurp his identity.
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C.
Pyotr Verkhovensky
Pyotr Verkhovensky is a manipulative revolutionary agitator and central instigator of chaos in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel "Demons."
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D.
Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin
Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin is a high-ranking, emotionally reserved government official in Leo Tolstoy’s novel "Anna Karenina," known primarily as Anna’s older, conservative husband whose rigid morality contrasts with her passionate nature.
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E.
Nikolai Stavrogin
Nikolai Stavrogin is the enigmatic, morally tormented aristocrat at the center of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel "Demons," embodying the spiritual and ideological crisis of 19th-century Russia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ military officer ⓘ patriarch ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Idiot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Epanchin family
NERFINISHED
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Nastasya Filippovna NERFINISHED ⓘ Prince Myshkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterIn | Russian literature ⓘ |
| child |
Adelaida Epanchin
NERFINISHED
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Aglaya Epanchin NERFINISHED ⓘ Alexandra Epanchin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| createdBy | Fyodor Dostoevsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorOccupation | novelist ⓘ |
| familyName | Epanchin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Idiot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationAppearance | The Idiot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDate | 1868 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | realist novel character ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Russian ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Russian realism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
family patriarch
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supporting character ⓘ |
| nationality | Russian ⓘ |
| occupation |
general
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military officer ⓘ |
| originalWorkLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of characters in The Idiot ⓘ |
| relative | Prince Lev Myshkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | St. Petersburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInPlot |
involved in familial intrigues
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involved in social intrigues ⓘ |
| socialStatus |
St. Petersburg society notable
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upper class ⓘ |
| spouse | Lizaveta Prokofyevna Epanchin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: General Epanchin Description of subject: General Epanchin is a prominent fictional Russian military officer and family patriarch in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel "The Idiot," known for his role in the social and familial intrigues surrounding Prince Myshkin.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.