Protagonist
C4939
concept
The Protagonist is the central character in a narrative whose goals, choices, and development drive the main plot and emotional focus of the story.
All labels observed (17)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| protagonist | 1,188 |
| novel protagonist | 144 |
| Protagonist canonical | 35 |
| hero | 25 |
| literary protagonist | 24 |
| series protagonist | 5 |
| central character | 3 |
| short story protagonist | 3 |
| teenage protagonist | 3 |
| main character | 2 |
| novel series protagonist | 2 |
| protagonists | 2 |
| dramatic protagonist | 1 |
| first-person shooter protagonist | 1 |
| novella protagonist | 1 |
| protagonists in the Mahabharata | 1 |
| story protagonist | 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: Protagonist
Generated description
The Protagonist is the central character in a narrative whose goals, choices, and development drive the main plot and emotional focus of the story.
Instances (1,440)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Rose DeWitt Bukater | protagonist |
| Jack Reacher | protagonist |
| Kim Brown | protagonist |
| Ivan Ilyich Golovin | protagonist |
| Emily Thorne | protagonist |
| Golan Trevize | — |
| Rik | protagonist |
| Abel (Abel of Sark) | protagonist |
| Terens | protagonist |
| David Starr | protagonist |
| Luca Paguro | protagonist |
| Irene Redfield | protagonist |
| Joseph Schwartz | protagonist |
| Bel Arvardan | protagonist |
| Ephraim Goodweather | protagonist |
| Silas Lapham | protagonist |
| Quasimodo | protagonist |
| Elinor Dashwood | protagonist |
| Montresor | protagonist |
| Tom Canty | protagonist |
| Louis Creed | protagonist |
| Arthur Gordon Pym | novel protagonist |
|
Radamès in Verdi's "Aida"
surface form:
Radamès
|
protagonist |
|
Hoffmann in Offenbach's "Les Contes d'Hoffmann"
surface form:
Hoffmann
|
protagonist |
| Margaret Schlegel | protagonist |
| Darrell Rivers | protagonist |
| Tony | protagonist |
| Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova | protagonist |
| Sir Wilfrid Robarts | protagonist |
| Andrew Martin | protagonist |
| Rachel Watson | novel protagonist |
| Biron Farrill | protagonist |
| Kate Fuller | protagonist |
| Jim Stark | protagonist |
| Jacob King | protagonist |
| Harold Hutchins | protagonist |
| Ted Wiggins | protagonist |
| Ferdinand Lopez | protagonist |
| Danny O'Neill | protagonist |
| Stingo | novel protagonist |
| Michael Vronsky | protagonist |
| Bimala | — |
| Nikhilesh | protagonist |
| Hans Castorp | protagonist |
| Gustav von Aschenbach | protagonist |
| Charlie Gordon | protagonist |
| Anna and Elsa | protagonists |
| Alonso Quixano | protagonist |
| Hilda | protagonist |
| Remy | protagonist |