Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Yevgeny Zamyatin was a Russian writer best known for his dystopian novel "We," which powerfully critiqued totalitarianism and influenced later works like George Orwell's "1984."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yevgeny Zamyatin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5486685 — 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: Yevgeny Zamyatin Context triple: [Russian literature, hasNotableAuthor, Yevgeny Zamyatin]
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A.
Vladimir Zamyatin
Vladimir Zamyatin is a Russian diplomat and politician best known for serving as the last Soviet ambassador to the United Kingdom and later participating in the negotiations that dissolved the Soviet Union.
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B.
Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonov was a Soviet Russian writer and novelist known for his philosophically rich, experimental prose that critically explored utopianism, technology, and the human condition under early Soviet rule.
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C.
Aleksandr Grin
Aleksandr Grin was a Russian writer best known for his romantic and adventure fiction set in imaginative seafaring worlds, including the celebrated novella "Scarlet Sails."
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D.
Yevgeny Ginzburg
Yevgeny Ginzburg was a Soviet journalist and writer best known for her memoirs detailing her imprisonment during Stalin’s Great Purge and life in the Gulag.
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E.
Arkady Strugatsky
Arkady Strugatsky was a prominent Soviet science fiction writer, best known for the influential novels he co-authored with his brother Boris, such as "Roadside Picnic" and "Hard to Be a God."
- 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: Yevgeny Zamyatin Target entity description: Yevgeny Zamyatin was a Russian writer best known for his dystopian novel "We," which powerfully critiqued totalitarianism and influenced later works like George Orwell's "1984."
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A.
Vladimir Zamyatin
Vladimir Zamyatin is a Russian diplomat and politician best known for serving as the last Soviet ambassador to the United Kingdom and later participating in the negotiations that dissolved the Soviet Union.
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B.
Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonov was a Soviet Russian writer and novelist known for his philosophically rich, experimental prose that critically explored utopianism, technology, and the human condition under early Soviet rule.
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C.
Aleksandr Grin
Aleksandr Grin was a Russian writer best known for his romantic and adventure fiction set in imaginative seafaring worlds, including the celebrated novella "Scarlet Sails."
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D.
Yevgeny Ginzburg
Yevgeny Ginzburg was a Soviet journalist and writer best known for her memoirs detailing her imprisonment during Stalin’s Great Purge and life in the Gulag.
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E.
Arkady Strugatsky
Arkady Strugatsky was a prominent Soviet science fiction writer, best known for the influential novels he co-authored with his brother Boris, such as "Roadside Picnic" and "Hard to Be a God."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (71)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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human ⓘ literary critic ⓘ novelist ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Russian Empire
ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1884-02-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1937-03-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Russian Navy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
shipyards in England ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Russians ⓘ |
| familyName | Zamyatin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literature
ⓘ
naval engineering ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWe | 1924 (English translation) ⓘ |
| genre |
dystopian fiction
ⓘ
satire ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Yevgeny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Aldous Huxley
NERFINISHED
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George Orwell NERFINISHED ⓘ Kurt Vonnegut NERFINISHED ⓘ dystopian literature ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
H. G. Wells NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedWork |
Brave New World
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nineteen Eighty-Four NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Russian ⓘ |
| movement |
Russian avant-garde
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
modernism ⓘ |
| name | Yevgeny Zamyatin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName | Евгений Замятин NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
critique of censorship
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critique of totalitarianism ⓘ defense of artistic freedom ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Provincial Tale
NERFINISHED
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The Cave NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dragon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Flood NERFINISHED ⓘ The Islanders NERFINISHED ⓘ We NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
engineer
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writer ⓘ |
| opposed |
Soviet censorship
ⓘ
totalitarianism ⓘ |
| originalLanguageOfWe | Russian ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Lebedyan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Russian Empire ⓘ Tambov Governorate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
France
ⓘ
Paris ⓘ |
| politicalIdeology | Bolshevism ⓘ |
| residence |
Paris
ⓘ
St. Petersburg ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Petersburg
|
| settingOfWe | OneState NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Lydia Zamyatina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasExiledTo | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workBannedIn | Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
A Provincial Tale
NERFINISHED
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The Cave NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dragon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Flood NERFINISHED ⓘ The Islanders NERFINISHED ⓘ We NERFINISHED ⓘ essays ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ short stories ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Yevgeny Zamyatin Description of subject: Yevgeny Zamyatin was a Russian writer best known for his dystopian novel "We," which powerfully critiqued totalitarianism and influenced later works like George Orwell's "1984."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.