Hermann is a poor officer obsessed with learning a secret winning card formula
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Hermann is the tragic, obsessive protagonist of Pushkin’s "The Queen of Spades," whose fixation on discovering a secret winning card formula leads to his psychological and moral downfall.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hermann is a poor officer obsessed with learning a secret winning card formula canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9430628 — 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: Hermann is a poor officer obsessed with learning a secret winning card formula Context triple: [The Queen of Spades, characterRole, Hermann is a poor officer obsessed with learning a secret winning card formula]
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A.
Herman
Herman is a surname most notably associated with Edward S. Herman, an American economist, media analyst, and critic of U.S. foreign policy.
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B.
Herman
Herman is the given first name of the American blues singer and harmonica player Junior Parker.
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C.
Herman
Herman is the given name of Belgian politician Herman De Croo, a long-serving liberal statesman and former President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives.
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D.
Herman
Herman is the middle name of legendary American baseball player Babe Ruth, whose full name was George Herman Ruth Jr.
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E.
German Colonel Fritz Fullriede
German Colonel Fritz Fullriede was a Wehrmacht officer best known for commanding the German defense of the besieged Baltic port city of Kolberg in early 1945.
- 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: Hermann is a poor officer obsessed with learning a secret winning card formula Target entity description: Hermann is the tragic, obsessive protagonist of Pushkin’s "The Queen of Spades," whose fixation on discovering a secret winning card formula leads to his psychological and moral downfall.
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A.
Herman
Herman is a surname most notably associated with Edward S. Herman, an American economist, media analyst, and critic of U.S. foreign policy.
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B.
Herman
Herman is the given first name of the American blues singer and harmonica player Junior Parker.
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C.
Herman
Herman is the given name of Belgian politician Herman De Croo, a long-serving liberal statesman and former President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives.
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D.
Herman
Herman is the middle name of legendary American baseball player Babe Ruth, whose full name was George Herman Ruth Jr.
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E.
German Colonel Fritz Fullriede
German Colonel Fritz Fullriede was a Wehrmacht officer best known for commanding the German defense of the besieged Baltic port city of Kolberg in early 1945.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Queen of Spades NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInForm | short story ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
cards
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gambling ⓘ the Queen of Spades NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDownfall |
gambling obsession
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moral corruption ⓘ |
| centuryOfCreation | 19th century ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
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calculating ⓘ cold ⓘ obsessive ⓘ |
| createdBy | Alexander Pushkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Queen of Spades NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Queen of Spades NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| interactsWith | Lizaveta Ivanovna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Russian ⓘ |
| literaryMovementContext | Russian Romanticism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryRole | tragic protagonist ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| motivation | to learn a secret winning card formula ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
explores the destructive power of obsession
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illustrates moral downfall ⓘ |
| nationality | Russian ⓘ |
| occupation | officer ⓘ |
| primaryObsession | secret winning card formula ⓘ |
| psychologicalStateAtEnd | madness ⓘ |
| seeksSecretFrom | the old Countess ⓘ |
| setting | Saint Petersburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialStatus | poor ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
the dangers of unchecked ambition
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the destructive nature of obsession ⓘ |
| themeConnection |
fate
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greed ⓘ rationalism versus superstition ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 19th century Russia ⓘ |
| undergoes |
moral downfall
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psychological downfall ⓘ |
| uses | Lizaveta Ivanovna to gain access to the Countess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Hermann is a poor officer obsessed with learning a secret winning card formula Description of subject: Hermann is the tragic, obsessive protagonist of Pushkin’s "The Queen of Spades," whose fixation on discovering a secret winning card formula leads to his psychological and moral downfall.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The Queen of Spades
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characterRole
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Hermann is a poor officer obsessed with learning a secret winning card formula
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