narrator
C1548
concept
A narrator is an entity, either a character or an external voice, that tells the story and conveys events, thoughts, and perspectives to the audience.
All labels observed (29)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| narrator canonical | 105 |
| storyteller | 37 |
| unreliable narrator | 13 |
| literary narrator | 11 |
| hadith narrator | 10 |
| epistolary narrator | 4 |
| film narrator | 4 |
| frame narrator | 4 |
| Narrator | 3 |
| reciter | 3 |
| narrative role | 2 |
| novel narrator | 2 |
| child narrator | 1 |
| dramatic narrator | 1 |
| fictional narrator | 1 |
| first-person narrator | 1 |
| hadithNarrator | 1 |
| introspective narrator | 1 |
| live show narrator | 1 |
| narrator characters | 1 |
| narrator-like character | 1 |
| philosophical narrator | 1 |
| poetic narrator | 1 |
| silent film narrator | 1 |
| speaker in a poem | 1 |
| storyteller in The Canterbury Tales | 1 |
| television narrator | 1 |
| unnamed narrator | 1 |
| ナレーター | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: narrator
Generated description
A narrator is an entity, either a character or an external voice, that tells the story and conveys events, thoughts, and perspectives to the audience.
Instances (208)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Nelly Dean | — |
| Lockwood | — |
|
Henry Carr in Travesties (stage)
surface form:
Henry Carr (Travesties)
|
dramatic narrator |
| Burl Ives | storyteller |
|
Rachel Watson in The Girl on the Train
surface form:
Rachel Watson
|
unreliable narrator |
| Patrick Bateman | unreliable narrator |
| Peter Coyote | — |
| Chaucer the pilgrim | — |
|
Merchant
surface form:
Merchant (The Canterbury Tales)
|
storyteller |
| Franklin | storyteller |
|
Reeve
surface form:
Reeve (The Canterbury Tales)
|
storyteller in The Canterbury Tales |
| Aisha bint Abi Bakr | hadith narrator |
|
Tobolowsky
surface form:
Stephen Tobolowsky
|
storyteller |
| Umm Salama | hadithNarrator |
| Usbek | epistolary narrator |
| Rica | epistolary narrator |
| Adso of Melk | — |
| Reverend Wicks Cherrycoke | — |
| Ishmael | novel narrator |
| The Narrator | unreliable narrator |
| Royal Historians of Arendelle | live show narrator |
| Sergius O'Shaughnessy | first-person narrator |
| Narrator (Disney's "Cinderella") | — |
| Francie Nolan | — |
| Morgan Freeman | — |
| Caleb Proudhammer | — |
| Robert D. San Souci | storyteller |
| Zia Mohyeddin | reciter |
|
the Autocrat
surface form:
The Autocrat
|
— |
| Leonard Graves | — |
| Leo Proudhammer | — |
| Jeffrey Lockhart | — |
| Uncle Remus | storyteller |
| Félix de Vandenesse | — |
| Eames Demetrios | storyteller |
| Raoul Duke | — |
| ashik | storyteller |
| Turgut Özben | — |
| Amans | — |
| Tribulation Periwinkle | literary narrator |
| Jamie Bernstein | — |
| Gabriel John Utterson | — |
| H. F. | literary narrator |
| Heigo Kurosawa | silent film narrator |
| Tommy Makem | storyteller |
| Jim Burden | — |
| Sieur Louis de Conte | literary narrator |
| Humberto Peñaloza | unreliable narrator |
|
personified Folly
surface form:
Personified Folly
|
— |
|
檜山 修之
surface form:
檜山修之
|
ナレーター |