Tomsky
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Tomsky is a character in Alexander Pushkin’s novella "The Queen of Spades," known for recounting the mysterious tale of a secret winning card formula that drives the plot.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tomsky canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4811007 — 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: Tomsky Context triple: [The Queen of Spades, principalCharacter, Tomsky]
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A.
Vyacheslav
Vyacheslav is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, most notably borne by Soviet politician Vyacheslav Molotov.
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B.
Ilyich
Ilyich is a Russian patronymic name meaning "son of Ilya," famously associated with Soviet leaders such as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev.
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C.
Nikolay
Nikolay is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Russian-speaking countries and equivalent to Nicholas in English.
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D.
Leonid
Leonid is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, notably borne by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
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E.
Semyon
Semyon is a masculine given name of Russian origin, commonly used in Slavic 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: Tomsky Target entity description: Tomsky is a character in Alexander Pushkin’s novella "The Queen of Spades," known for recounting the mysterious tale of a secret winning card formula that drives the plot.
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A.
Vyacheslav
Vyacheslav is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, most notably borne by Soviet politician Vyacheslav Molotov.
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B.
Ilyich
Ilyich is a Russian patronymic name meaning "son of Ilya," famously associated with Soviet leaders such as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev.
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C.
Nikolay
Nikolay is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Russian-speaking countries and equivalent to Nicholas in English.
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D.
Leonid
Leonid is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, notably borne by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
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E.
Semyon
Semyon is a masculine given name of Russian origin, commonly used in Slavic countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in short fiction
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Queen of Spades NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Alexander Pushkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
fate
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gambling ⓘ greed ⓘ supernatural ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | Russian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Alexander Pushkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyRelation | grandson of the Countess ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1834 ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Russian ⓘ |
| mediumOfWork | prose ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
exposition provider
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storyteller ⓘ |
| occupation | officer ⓘ |
| plotContribution |
initiates Hermann’s obsession with the card secret
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provides background about the Countess’s past ⓘ |
| relatedToCharacter |
Countess Anna Fedotovna
NERFINISHED
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Hermann NERFINISHED ⓘ Lizaveta Ivanovna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWork | supporting character ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | St. Petersburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialStatus | nobleman ⓘ |
| tellsStoryAbout |
secret winning card formula
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three winning cards ⓘ |
| tellsStoryTo | Hermann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFiction | early 19th century ⓘ |
| workGenre | novella ⓘ |
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: Tomsky Description of subject: Tomsky is a character in Alexander Pushkin’s novella "The Queen of Spades," known for recounting the mysterious tale of a secret winning card formula that drives the plot.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Queen of Spades