Paul Montague
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Paul Montague is a central fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Way We Live Now," known for his moral conflicts and entanglement in financial and romantic intrigues within Victorian society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Montague canonical | 7 |
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Fictional character
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Literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Way We Live Now ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | Print literature ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Augustus Melmotte
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Roger Carbury ⓘ South Central Pacific and Mexican Railway ⓘ |
| associatedWithFamily | Carbury family ⓘ |
| createdBy | Anthony Trollope ⓘ |
| experiences |
Emotional turmoil
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Moral conflict ⓘ |
| firstPublishedInWork | The Way We Live Now ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | Victorian novel ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalStatus | Major character in Anthony Trollope’s fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacterTrait |
Honesty
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Idealism ⓘ Impulsiveness ⓘ Moral scrupulousness ⓘ |
| hasFormerFiancée | Mrs Hurtle ⓘ |
| hasGuardianFigure | Roger Carbury ⓘ |
| hasLoveInterest | Hetta Carbury ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | Engineer ⓘ |
| hasRole | Protagonist ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
Victorian era
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surface form:
Victorian England
|
| hasSocialClass | Middle class ⓘ |
| hasSocialContext |
Victorian London
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surface form:
London society
|
| involvedIn |
Financial intrigue
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Railway speculation ⓘ Romantic intrigue ⓘ |
| isCentralCharacterIn | The Way We Live Now ⓘ |
| isContrastedWith |
Augustus Melmotte
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Sir Felix Carbury ⓘ
surface form:
Felix Carbury
|
| isSubjectOf | Literary criticism on The Way We Live Now ⓘ |
| isVictimOf | Augustus Melmotte ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| moralArc | Struggle to act ethically in corrupt society ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
Focus of romantic plotline
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Vehicle for social criticism ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | English ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfWork | 1875 ⓘ |
| romanticArc | Choice between past attachment and new love ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
Conflict between love and duty
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Corruption in high finance ⓘ Moral responsibility ⓘ Speculation and fraud ⓘ |
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: Paul Montague Description of subject: Paul Montague is a central fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Way We Live Now," known for his moral conflicts and entanglement in financial and romantic intrigues within Victorian society.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Way We Live Now (2001 TV serial)