Sheila Fitzpatrick (historian)
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Sheila Fitzpatrick is an Australian-American historian renowned for her pioneering social and political studies of the Soviet Union, particularly under Stalin.
All labels observed (1)
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| Sheila Fitzpatrick (historian) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sheila Fitzpatrick (historian) Context triple: [Fitzpatrick, notableBearer, Sheila Fitzpatrick (historian)]
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A.
Eileen Power
Eileen Power was a prominent British economic historian and medievalist known for her influential work on medieval society, trade, and women's history.
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B.
Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin is a British literary journalist and acclaimed biographer known for her works on figures such as Charles Dickens, Samuel Pepys, and Jane Austen.
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C.
Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser is a British historian and biographer renowned for her popular works on European royalty and major figures of British history.
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D.
Lisa Jardine
Lisa Jardine was a prominent British historian of the Renaissance and early modern period, noted for her work on science, culture, and the history of ideas.
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E.
Catherine Pakenham
Catherine Pakenham was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat best known as the wife of the Duke of Wellington, the British military hero who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
- 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: Sheila Fitzpatrick (historian) Target entity description: Sheila Fitzpatrick is an Australian-American historian renowned for her pioneering social and political studies of the Soviet Union, particularly under Stalin.
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A.
Eileen Power
Eileen Power was a prominent British economic historian and medievalist known for her influential work on medieval society, trade, and women's history.
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B.
Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin is a British literary journalist and acclaimed biographer known for her works on figures such as Charles Dickens, Samuel Pepys, and Jane Austen.
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C.
Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser is a British historian and biographer renowned for her popular works on European royalty and major figures of British history.
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D.
Lisa Jardine
Lisa Jardine was a prominent British historian of the Renaissance and early modern period, noted for her work on science, culture, and the history of ideas.
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E.
Catherine Pakenham
Catherine Pakenham was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat best known as the wife of the Duke of Wellington, the British military hero who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sovietologist
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historian ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | history ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize
NERFINISHED
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American Historical Association’s Wayne S. Vucinich Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Australia
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1941 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
St Antony's College, Oxford
NERFINISHED
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University of Melbourne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Australian Catholic University
NERFINISHED
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University of Chicago ⓘ University of Sydney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Russian history
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Stalinism NERFINISHED ⓘ history of the Soviet Union ⓘ political history ⓘ social history ⓘ |
| genre |
historical writing
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non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | study of Soviet social history ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
Great Purge
NERFINISHED
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Soviet everyday life in the 1930s ⓘ collectivization in the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| knownFor |
challenging totalitarian models of Stalinism
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use of social history methods in Soviet studies ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Australian Academy of the Humanities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | revisionist school of Soviet history ⓘ |
| nationality | Australian-American ⓘ |
| notableFor | pioneering social and political studies of the Soviet Union under Stalin ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Spy in the Archives
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Everyday Stalinism NERFINISHED ⓘ On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics NERFINISHED ⓘ Stalin's Peasants NERFINISHED ⓘ Tear Off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ The Russian Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
university professor
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writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Melbourne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of Russian History NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
Soviet political elites under Stalin
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Soviet social mobility ⓘ everyday life in the Stalin era ⓘ |
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Subject: Sheila Fitzpatrick (historian) Description of subject: Sheila Fitzpatrick is an Australian-American historian renowned for her pioneering social and political studies of the Soviet Union, particularly under Stalin.
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subject surface form:
Fitzpatrick