Irene Lapham

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Irene Lapham is a central figure in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," embodying the emotional and social complexities of a young woman in post–Civil War Boston society.

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Label Occurrences
Irene Lapham canonical 5

Statements (28)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
appearsIn The Rise of Silas Lapham
associatedWithTheme class mobility
family loyalty
moral choice
romantic idealization
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator William Dean Howells
depicts emotional complexities of young women in Gilded Age Boston
social expectations in upper-middle-class Boston society
familyName Lapham
fictionalUniverse The Rise of Silas Lapham
gender female
genreOfWork realist novel
givenName Irene
languageOfWork English
narrativeFunction focus of romantic plot involving Tom Corey
nationality American (fictional)
parent Persis Lapham
Silas Lapham
relative Penelope Lapham
Persis Lapham
Silas Lapham
residence Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston
roleInWork central figure
sibling Penelope Lapham
timePeriod post–Civil War era

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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: Irene Lapham
Description of subject: Irene Lapham is a central figure in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," embodying the emotional and social complexities of a young woman in post–Civil War Boston society.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Silas Lapham hasChild Irene Lapham
Penelope Lapham hasSister Irene Lapham
Persis Lapham parentOf Irene Lapham