Shchors
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Shchors is a 1939 Soviet biographical war film directed by Alexander Dovzhenko about the Ukrainian Bolshevik commander Nikolai Shchors.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shchors canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8941765 — 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: Shchors Context triple: [Alexander Dovzhenko, notableWork, Shchors]
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A.
Maychew
Maychew is a town in northern Ethiopia known as a local commercial and administrative center within the Tigray highlands.
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B.
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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C.
Antoshka
Antoshka is a common Russian diminutive form of the male given name Anton, often used affectionately or informally.
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D.
Tolbukhin
Tolbukhin is a Russian surname most notably associated with Soviet military commander Fyodor Tolbukhin, a prominent general during World War II.
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E.
Yagoda
Yagoda is a Russian surname most notably associated with Genrikh Yagoda, a Soviet secret police official and early head of the NKVD under Joseph Stalin.
- 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: Shchors Target entity description: Shchors is a 1939 Soviet biographical war film directed by Alexander Dovzhenko about the Ukrainian Bolshevik commander Nikolai Shchors.
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A.
Maychew
Maychew is a town in northern Ethiopia known as a local commercial and administrative center within the Tigray highlands.
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B.
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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C.
Antoshka
Antoshka is a common Russian diminutive form of the male given name Anton, often used affectionately or informally.
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D.
Tolbukhin
Tolbukhin is a Russian surname most notably associated with Soviet military commander Fyodor Tolbukhin, a prominent general during World War II.
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E.
Yagoda
Yagoda is a Russian surname most notably associated with Genrikh Yagoda, a Soviet secret police official and early head of the NKVD under Joseph Stalin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biographical war film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | life of Nikolai Shchors ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Danylo Demutsky ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| creativeDirectionBy | Alexander Dovzhenko ⓘ |
| depicts |
Bolshevik military campaigns in Ukraine
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struggle against anti-Bolshevik forces ⓘ |
| director | Alexander Dovzhenko ⓘ |
| distributor | Soviet state film distribution ⓘ |
| editedBy | O. Skripnik ⓘ |
| era | Stalinist cinema ⓘ |
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Ukrainian SSR
ⓘ
linked to:
Soviet Ukraine
|
| genre |
biographical film
ⓘ
historical film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Ivan Skuratov
ⓘ
Lukyan Koval ⓘ Yevgeny Samoylov ⓘ |
| hasColor | black-and-white ⓘ |
| hasFilmPoster | Shchors 1939 Soviet poster ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalContext | formation of Soviet power in Ukraine ⓘ |
| hasWorkTitleInLanguage |
Щорс (Russian)
ⓘ
Щорс (Ukrainian) ⓘ |
| language |
Russian
ⓘ
Ukrainian ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Nikolai Shchors ⓘ |
| musicBy | Dmitri Kabalevsky ⓘ |
| notableFor |
example of Stalin-era historical film
ⓘ
glorification of a Ukrainian Bolshevik commander ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Soviet cinema distribution ⓘ |
| partOf | Soviet propaganda cinema ⓘ |
| portrays |
Nikolai Shchors
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Red Army units ⓘ Ukrainian Bolsheviks ⓘ
linked to:
Communist Party of Ukraine
Ukrainian national formations aligned with Bolsheviks ⓘ |
| producer |
Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Studio
ⓘ
linked to:
Dovzhenko Film Studios
|
| productionCompany |
Kyiv Film Studio
ⓘ
linked to:
Dovzhenko Film Studios
|
| publicationDate | 1939 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 92 minutes ⓘ |
| setInLocation | Ukraine ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Russian Civil War ⓘ |
| timeOfSetting | 1918–1919 ⓘ |
| titleCharacter | Nikolai Shchors ⓘ |
| writer | Alexander Dovzhenko ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Shchors Description of subject: Shchors is a 1939 Soviet biographical war film directed by Alexander Dovzhenko about the Ukrainian Bolshevik commander Nikolai Shchors.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.