Stella Maris

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Stella Maris is a posthumously published philosophical novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows the brilliant, troubled Alicia Western through dialogues in a psychiatric institution, serving as a companion piece to his novel The Passenger.

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Label Occurrences
Stella Maris canonical 5
Stella Maris (1918 film universe) 1
Stella Maris (character) 1

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
philosophical novel
author Cormac McCarthy
authorNationality American
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
coverArtist Chip Kidd
featuresCharacter Alicia Western
firstEditionFormat hardcover
follows The Passenger
genre literary fiction
psychological fiction
hasISBN 9780307269003
hasSubject game theory
metaphysics
psychiatry
quantum mechanics
schizophrenia
theology
isCompanionWorkOf The Passenger
language English
literaryMovement contemporary American literature
mainCharacter Alicia Western
narrativeForm dialogue
pageCount 208
partOf The Passenger–Stella Maris duology
protagonistOccupation mathematician
protagonistTrait brilliant
troubled
publicationDate 2022
publicationType posthumous publication
publisher Alfred A. Knopf
publisherImprint Alfred A. Knopf
surface form: Knopf
relatedWork Blood Meridian
No Country for Old Men
The Road
setting psychiatric institution
structure series of psychiatric interviews
theme ethics
grief
mathematics
mental illness
philosophy of mind
suicide
timePeriodOfSetting 1970s

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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.
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Subject: Stella Maris
Description of subject: Stella Maris is a posthumously published philosophical novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows the brilliant, troubled Alicia Western through dialogues in a psychiatric institution, serving as a companion piece to his novel The Passenger.

Referenced by (8)

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

Cormac McCarthy notableWork Stella Maris
Unity Blake appearsIn Stella Maris
Unity Blake basedOnWork Stella Maris
this entity surface form: Stella Maris (novel)
Unity Blake sharesPortrayerWith Stella Maris
this entity surface form: Stella Maris (character)
Unity Blake fictionalUniverse Stella Maris
this entity surface form: Stella Maris (1918 film universe)
The Passenger relatedWork Stella Maris
The Passenger hasSequel Stella Maris
Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. notableWork Stella Maris
subject surface form: Cormac McCarthy