Sofya Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya
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Sofya Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya, better known as Sofia Kovalevskaya, was a pioneering Russian mathematician and the first major female professor of mathematics in Europe.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Korvin-Krukovskaya | 1 |
| Sofya Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: Sofya Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya Context triple: [Sofia Kovalevskaya, birthName, Sofya Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya]
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Margarita Petrovna
Margarita Petrovna was a lesser-known daughter of Empress Catherine I of Russia, connected to the early 18th-century Russian imperial family.
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Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya
Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya, commonly known as Kitty, is a young Russian noblewoman whose emotional growth and eventual marriage to Konstantin Levin form one of the central storylines in Leo Tolstoy’s novel "Anna Karenina."
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Anna Kuliscioff
Anna Kuliscioff was a prominent Italian socialist, feminist, and physician who became one of the leading theorists and activists of the Italian workers’ and women’s movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Ekaterina Pavlovna Volzhina
Ekaterina Pavlovna Volzhina was the wife of renowned Russian writer Maksim Gorky and a figure associated with his early literary and political life.
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Maria Vladimirovna Dolgorukova
Maria Vladimirovna Dolgorukova was a Russian noblewoman from the influential Dolgorukov family who became Tsaritsa as the first wife of Tsar Mikhail I of Russia.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Sofya Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya Target entity description: Sofya Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya, better known as Sofia Kovalevskaya, was a pioneering Russian mathematician and the first major female professor of mathematics in Europe.
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A.
Margarita Petrovna
Margarita Petrovna was a lesser-known daughter of Empress Catherine I of Russia, connected to the early 18th-century Russian imperial family.
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B.
Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya
Ekaterina Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya, commonly known as Kitty, is a young Russian noblewoman whose emotional growth and eventual marriage to Konstantin Levin form one of the central storylines in Leo Tolstoy’s novel "Anna Karenina."
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C.
Anna Kuliscioff
Anna Kuliscioff was a prominent Italian socialist, feminist, and physician who became one of the leading theorists and activists of the Italian workers’ and women’s movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Ekaterina Pavlovna Volzhina
Ekaterina Pavlovna Volzhina was the wife of renowned Russian writer Maksim Gorky and a figure associated with his early literary and political life.
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E.
Maria Vladimirovna Dolgorukova
Maria Vladimirovna Dolgorukova was a Russian noblewoman from the influential Dolgorukov family who became Tsaritsa as the first wife of Tsar Mikhail I of Russia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
academic
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human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ university teacher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| academicDegree | Doctorate in Mathematics from the University of Göttingen ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Sofia Kovalevskaya
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Sofia Kovalevskaya ⓘ
surface form:
Sofya Kovalevskaya
Sofia Kovalevskaya ⓘ
surface form:
Sofya Kovalevskaya-Korvin
Sofia Kovalevskaya ⓘ
surface form:
Sonya Kovalevsky
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| birthDate | 1850-01-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Moscow Governorate
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surface form:
Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire
Palibino estate, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1891-02-10 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Stockholm
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surface form:
Stockholm, Sweden
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| doctoralAdvisor | Karl Weierstrass ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Heidelberg University
NERFINISHED
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Humboldt University of Berlin ⓘ
surface form:
University of Berlin (informal studies)
University of Göttingen ⓘ |
| employer | Stockholm University ⓘ |
| familyName |
Sofya Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Korvin-Krukovskaya
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| father | Vasily Vasilyevich Korvin-Krukovsky ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
analysis
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celestial mechanics ⓘ mathematics ⓘ mechanics ⓘ partial differential equations ⓘ probability theory ⓘ |
| givenName | Sofya ⓘ |
| honouredIn |
asteroid 1859 Kovalevskaya
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crater Kovalevskaya on the Moon ⓘ |
| influenced | development of women’s higher education in mathematics ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
French
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German ⓘ Russian ⓘ |
| mother | Yelizaveta Fedorovna Shubert ⓘ |
| movement | women in science ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first major female professor of mathematics in Europe
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first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cauchy–Kovalevskaya theorem
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memoirs and autobiographical writings ⓘ Nihilist Girl ⓘ
surface form:
novel "Nihilist Girl"
research on the rotation of a rigid body about a fixed point ⓘ work on Saturn’s rings ⓘ |
| patronymicName | Vasilyevna ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor of Mathematics at Stockholm University ⓘ |
| sibling |
Anna Korvin-Krukovskaya
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Fyodor Korvin-Krukovsky ⓘ |
| spouse | Vladimir Kovalevsky ⓘ |
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Subject: Sofya Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya Description of subject: Sofya Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya, better known as Sofia Kovalevskaya, was a pioneering Russian mathematician and the first major female professor of mathematics in Europe.
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