The Kreutzer Sonata
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The Kreutzer Sonata is a controversial novella by Leo Tolstoy that explores themes of jealousy, marriage, sexuality, and moral hypocrisy through a husband's confession of murdering his wife.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Kreutzer Sonata canonical | 4 |
| "The Kreutzer Sonata" | 1 |
| 1889 work The Kreutzer Sonata | 1 |
| Leo Tolstoy’s novella "The Kreutzer Sonata" | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Kreutzer Sonata Context triple: [Leo Tolstoy, notableWork, The Kreutzer Sonata]
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Kreutzer Sonata Target entity description: The Kreutzer Sonata is a controversial novella by Leo Tolstoy that explores themes of jealousy, marriage, sexuality, and moral hypocrisy through a husband's confession of murdering his wife.
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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.
Three Sisters
Three Sisters is a group of three prominent stratovolcanoes in the central Oregon Cascades, known for their distinctive clustered peaks and popular hiking and climbing terrain.
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C.
The Provoked Wife
The Provoked Wife is a late 17th-century Restoration comedy play by John Vanbrugh, known for its sharp wit and exploration of marriage and female agency.
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D.
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson is a 17th-century genre painting by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, depicting an intimate scene of music-making in a meticulously rendered domestic interior.
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E.
White Nights
White Nights is a natural phenomenon in St. Petersburg where, around the summer solstice, the sun barely sets and the city remains bathed in twilight almost all night.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novella ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
films
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operas ⓘ stage plays ⓘ |
| author | Leo Tolstoy ⓘ |
| censorship | subject to censorship in the Russian Empire ⓘ |
| centralMotif |
marital infidelity
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music ⓘ |
| containsCharacter |
Pozdnyshev’s wife
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a violinist friend of the couple ⓘ |
| controversyReason |
frank treatment of sex and marriage
ⓘ
radical critique of marital relations ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| criticizes |
bourgeois morality
ⓘ
institution of marriage ⓘ sexual double standards ⓘ |
| genre |
controversial literature
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novella ⓘ philosophical fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47, by Ludwig van Beethoven ⓘ |
| literaryInfluenceOn | later discussions of marriage and sexuality in Russian literature ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 19th century literature ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
frame narrative
ⓘ
unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
jealousy
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marriage ⓘ moral hypocrisy ⓘ sexuality ⓘ violence in marriage ⓘ |
| moralPerspective | ascetic view of sexuality ⓘ |
| movement | Tolstoyan moral philosophy ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | first-person confession ⓘ |
| narrator | Pozdnyshev ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of destructive jealousy
ⓘ
intense psychological monologue ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| philosophicalConcern | relationship between love, sex, and morality ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A husband recounts how jealousy led him to murder his wife. ⓘ |
| protagonist | Pozdnyshev ⓘ |
| publicationStatus | controversial ⓘ |
| setting | Russian society in the 19th century ⓘ |
| titleRefersTo | Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata ⓘ |
| workOf | Leo Tolstoy ⓘ |
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Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Kreutzer Sonata
this entity surface form:
Leo Tolstoy’s novella "The Kreutzer Sonata"
this entity surface form:
1889 work The Kreutzer Sonata
this entity surface form:
"The Kreutzer Sonata"
subject surface form:
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy