Lord William Vere

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Lord William Vere is a central aristocratic figure in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Black Dwarf," whose romantic and social entanglements drive much of the story’s plot.

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Label Occurrences
Lord William Vere canonical 2

Statements (25)

Predicate Object
instanceOf aristocrat
fictional character
appearsIn The Black Dwarf NERFINISHED
appearsInSeries Tales of My Landlord NERFINISHED
associatedWith romantic entanglements
social entanglements
countryOfFictionalOrigin Scotland NERFINISHED
createdBy Walter Scott NERFINISHED
drives romantic plot of The Black Dwarf
social plot of The Black Dwarf
fictionalStatus non-historical character
genreOfWork historical novel
hasMedium prose fiction
hasRole central character
member of the aristocracy
romantic lead
hasSetting early 18th-century Scotland
hasTitle Lord NERFINISHED
isFictionalInUniverse Scottish Borders NERFINISHED
isPartOf cast of characters in The Black Dwarf
languageOfWork English
literaryPeriod Romantic era NERFINISHED
narrativeFunction to connect aristocratic society with the novel’s central conflicts
publicationContext novel first published in 1816
workAuthorNationality Scottish

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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: Lord William Vere
Description of subject: Lord William Vere is a central aristocratic figure in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Black Dwarf," whose romantic and social entanglements drive much of the story’s plot.

Referenced by (2)

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

The Black Dwarf mainCharacter Lord William Vere
The Black Dwarf hasFictionalCharacter Lord William Vere