Perico
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Perico is a minor character in Ernest Hemingway's novella "The Old Man and the Sea," known as a young boy who helps the old fisherman Santiago by providing him with newspapers and showing him quiet support.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Perico canonical | 1 |
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ minor character ⓘ |
| ageGroup | young boy ⓘ |
| appearsAlongside | Manolin ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Old Man and the Sea ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | book ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
community support
ⓘ
solidarity ⓘ |
| characterType | supporting character ⓘ |
| createdBy | Ernest Hemingway ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Old Man and the Sea universe ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1952 ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovementOfAuthor | modernist literature ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | Cuban ⓘ |
| provides | newspapers ⓘ |
| providesTo | Santiago ⓘ |
| roleInStory | helper of Santiago ⓘ |
| settingOfAppearance | Cuban fishing village ⓘ |
| shows | quiet support ⓘ |
| supports | Santiago’s fishing efforts ⓘ |
| supportsCharacter | Santiago ⓘ |
| workGenre | novella ⓘ |
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: Perico Description of subject: Perico is a minor character in Ernest Hemingway's novella "The Old Man and the Sea," known as a young boy who helps the old fisherman Santiago by providing him with newspapers and showing him quiet support.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.