Alyosha Peshkov
E335477
Alyosha Peshkov is the young, semi-autobiographical protagonist of Maxim Gorky’s novel "My Childhood," depicting his harsh upbringing and moral development in late 19th-century Russia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alyosha Peshkov canonical | 3 |
| Alyosha | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1947180 — 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: Alyosha Peshkov Context triple: [My Childhood, hasCentralCharacter, Alyosha Peshkov]
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A.
Konstantin Vershinin
Konstantin Vershinin was a prominent Soviet military leader who served as a senior commander of the Soviet Air Forces during and after World War II.
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B.
Pyotr
Pyotr is the Russian given name of Peter Kropotkin, the influential 19th-century anarchist philosopher, geographer, and revolutionary.
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C.
Fyodor
Fyodor is a masculine given name of Russian origin, most famously borne by the novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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D.
Foma Gordeyev
Foma Gordeyev is a novel by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that portrays the moral and spiritual decline of a wealthy merchant’s son amid the social tensions of late 19th-century Russia.
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E.
Vasily
Vasily is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Russian-speaking countries.
- 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: Alyosha Peshkov Target entity description: Alyosha Peshkov is the young, semi-autobiographical protagonist of Maxim Gorky’s novel "My Childhood," depicting his harsh upbringing and moral development in late 19th-century Russia.
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A.
Konstantin Vershinin
Konstantin Vershinin was a prominent Soviet military leader who served as a senior commander of the Soviet Air Forces during and after World War II.
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B.
Pyotr
Pyotr is the Russian given name of Peter Kropotkin, the influential 19th-century anarchist philosopher, geographer, and revolutionary.
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C.
Fyodor
Fyodor is a masculine given name of Russian origin, most famously borne by the novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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D.
Foma Gordeyev
Foma Gordeyev is a novel by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that portrays the moral and spiritual decline of a wealthy merchant’s son amid the social tensions of late 19th-century Russia.
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E.
Vasily
Vasily is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Russian-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| ageRangeInWork | child ⓘ |
| appearsIn | My Childhood ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthorWorkCycle | autobiographical trilogy of Maxim Gorky ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Maksim Gorky
ⓘ
surface form:
Maxim Gorky
|
| childOf | Akulina Ivanovna Peshkova ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| creator |
Maksim Gorky
ⓘ
surface form:
Maxim Gorky
|
| depictsLifeStage |
childhood
ⓘ
early adolescence ⓘ |
| experiences |
domestic violence
ⓘ
economic hardship ⓘ family conflict ⓘ |
| familyName | Peshkov ⓘ |
| fictionalNationality | Russian ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName |
Alyosha Peshkov
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Alyosha
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| languageOfWork | Russian ⓘ |
| literaryFunction |
author surrogate
ⓘ
social critique vehicle ⓘ |
| literaryMovementContext | Russian realism ⓘ |
| moralCharacteristic |
compassionate
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observant ⓘ rebellious toward injustice ⓘ |
| moralTrajectory | from naivety to awareness ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
autobiographical persona
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first-person narrator ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | My Childhood ⓘ |
| relative | his grandparents ⓘ |
| setting |
Nizhny Novgorod
ⓘ
Russian provincial town ⓘ |
| themeAssociated |
childhood hardship
ⓘ
moral development ⓘ poverty ⓘ resilience ⓘ social injustice ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
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: Alyosha Peshkov Description of subject: Alyosha Peshkov is the young, semi-autobiographical protagonist of Maxim Gorky’s novel "My Childhood," depicting his harsh upbringing and moral development in late 19th-century Russia.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Alyosha