By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept is a romantic spiritual novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores love, faith, and personal transformation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T249909 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept Context triple: [Paulo Coelho, notableWork, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept]
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A.
The Autumn of the Patriarch
The Autumn of the Patriarch is a novel by Gabriel García Márquez that portrays the surreal, oppressive world of a timeless Caribbean dictator through dense, lyrical prose characteristic of magical realism.
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B.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera is a celebrated novel by Gabriel García Márquez that explores enduring, obsessive love over decades in a Caribbean port city.
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C.
Palace of Desire
Palace of Desire is a celebrated novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, forming the second part of his acclaimed Cairo Trilogy that explores family life and social change in early 20th-century Egypt.
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D.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a short novel by Gabriel García Márquez that blends journalism and fiction to reconstruct a foretold murder in a small Latin American town, exploring themes of honor, fate, and collective guilt.
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E.
The Milk-Eyed Mender
The Milk-Eyed Mender is the 2004 debut studio album by American singer-songwriter and harpist Joanna Newsom, noted for its intricate lyrics, distinctive vocals, and folk-inspired arrangements.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept Target entity description: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept is a romantic spiritual novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores love, faith, and personal transformation.
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A.
The Autumn of the Patriarch
The Autumn of the Patriarch is a novel by Gabriel García Márquez that portrays the surreal, oppressive world of a timeless Caribbean dictator through dense, lyrical prose characteristic of magical realism.
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B.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera is a celebrated novel by Gabriel García Márquez that explores enduring, obsessive love over decades in a Caribbean port city.
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C.
Palace of Desire
Palace of Desire is a celebrated novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, forming the second part of his acclaimed Cairo Trilogy that explores family life and social change in early 20th-century Egypt.
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D.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a short novel by Gabriel García Márquez that blends journalism and fiction to reconstruct a foretold murder in a small Latin American town, exploring themes of honor, fate, and collective guilt.
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E.
The Milk-Eyed Mender
The Milk-Eyed Mender is the 2004 debut studio album by American singer-songwriter and harpist Joanna Newsom, noted for its intricate lyrics, distinctive vocals, and folk-inspired arrangements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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romantic novel ⓘ spiritual novel ⓘ |
| author | Paulo Coelho ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Brazil ⓘ |
| followedBy | Veronika Decides to Die ⓘ |
| follows | The Devil and Miss Prym ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
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romance ⓘ spiritual literature ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | theatrical adaptations ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0-06-112209-5 ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
divine feminine
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miracles ⓘ river ⓘ tears ⓘ |
| hasPageCountApprox | 200 ⓘ |
| language | Portuguese ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Pilar
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Pilar's childhood friend ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrator | Pilar ⓘ |
| notableFor |
combining romance with spiritual reflection
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exploration of Marian devotion ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Portuguese ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Na margem do rio Piedra eu sentei e chorei ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | And on the Seventh Day trilogy ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| publisher | Rocco (Brazil) ⓘ |
| setting |
France
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Pyrenees ⓘ
surface form:
Pyrenees region
|
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
faith
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love ⓘ personal transformation ⓘ reconciliation ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
| translatedInto |
Dutch
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English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Italian ⓘ Portuguese (Brazilian edition) ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| workOf | Paulo Coelho ⓘ |
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