The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a novella by Leo Tolstoy that explores the existential and spiritual crisis of a dying Russian judge confronting the meaning of his life.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Death of Ivan Ilyich canonical | 11 |
| Ivan Ilyich | 4 |
| illness and death of Ivan Ilyich | 1 |
| Смерть Ивана Ильича | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T152685 — 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: The Death of Ivan Ilyich Context triple: [Leo Tolstoy, notableWork, The Death of Ivan Ilyich]
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A.
Ten Days of Repentance
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B.
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The Old Guitarist is a famous Blue Period painting by Pablo Picasso depicting a gaunt, blind musician hunched over his guitar, known for its somber mood and monochromatic blue palette.
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C.
Resurrection
Resurrection is a 1899 novel by Leo Tolstoy that explores themes of moral redemption, social injustice, and spiritual awakening through the story of a nobleman seeking to atone for a wrong done to a peasant woman.
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D.
The Drowned and the Saved
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E.
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- 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: The Death of Ivan Ilyich Target entity description: The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a novella by Leo Tolstoy that explores the existential and spiritual crisis of a dying Russian judge confronting the meaning of his life.
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A.
Ten Days of Repentance
Ten Days of Repentance is the Jewish High Holy Days period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur devoted to introspection, seeking forgiveness, and spiritual renewal.
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B.
The Old Guitarist
The Old Guitarist is a famous Blue Period painting by Pablo Picasso depicting a gaunt, blind musician hunched over his guitar, known for its somber mood and monochromatic blue palette.
-
C.
Resurrection
Resurrection is a 1899 novel by Leo Tolstoy that explores themes of moral redemption, social injustice, and spiritual awakening through the story of a nobleman seeking to atone for a wrong done to a peasant woman.
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D.
The Drowned and the Saved
The Drowned and the Saved is Primo Levi’s final, reflective work of essays examining the moral, psychological, and historical complexities of the Holocaust and its survivors.
-
E.
The General in His Labyrinth
The General in His Labyrinth is a historical novel by Gabriel García Márquez that fictionalizes the final journey and inner turmoil of Latin American liberator Simón Bolívar.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novella ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
film
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stage play ⓘ |
| author | Leo Tolstoy ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | classic of world literature ⓘ |
| centralConflict | confrontation with the meaninglessness of conventional life ⓘ |
| centralEvent |
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
illness and death of Ivan Ilyich
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| countryOfOrigin | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| depicts | Russian middle-class society ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
Christian ethics
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alienation ⓘ authenticity ⓘ death ⓘ existential crisis ⓘ fear of death ⓘ hypocrisy of bourgeois society ⓘ meaning of life ⓘ mortality ⓘ spiritual crisis ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | 1886 ⓘ |
| genre |
existential fiction
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novella ⓘ philosophical fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasMoralFocus | spiritual awakening at the approach of death ⓘ |
| includedIn | Leo Tolstoy’s later religious and philosophical works ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th-century philosophical fiction
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existentialist literature ⓘ |
| length | short novel ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Realism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Ivan Ilyich Golovin ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Gerasim
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Peter Ivanovich ⓘ Praskovya Fyodorovna ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Смерть Ивана Ильича
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| protagonistOccupation | judge ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1886 ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Russia ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| structure | framed narrative ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
courses on Russian literature
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courses on existentialism ⓘ courses on philosophy of death ⓘ |
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Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Смерть Ивана Ильича
this entity surface form:
illness and death of Ivan Ilyich
this entity surface form:
Ivan Ilyich
this entity surface form:
Ivan Ilyich
this entity surface form:
Ivan Ilyich
subject surface form:
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
this entity surface form:
Ivan Ilyich