Dr. Vigil

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Dr. Vigil is a compassionate and clear-sighted doctor who serves as a moral and rational counterpoint to the Consul’s self-destruction in Malcolm Lowry’s novel "Under the Volcano."

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Label Occurrences
Dr. Vigil canonical 1

Statements (26)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
appearsIn Under the Volcano NERFINISHED
appearsInGenre modernist novel
appearsInWorkBy Malcolm Lowry NERFINISHED
associatedWithTheme compassion in the face of decay
moral responsibility
rationality versus self-destruction
characterInNovelBy Malcolm Lowry NERFINISHED
contrastsWith the Consul NERFINISHED
createdBy Malcolm Lowry NERFINISHED
describedAs clear-sighted
compassionate
firstPublishedIn Under the Volcano (1947 novel) NERFINISHED
functionInNarrative moral counterpoint to the Consul
rational counterpoint to the Consul
languageOfWork English
medium prose fiction
narrativeFunction embodies ethical clarity
offers guidance to the Consul
nationalityOfAuthor British
occupation doctor
physician
roleInWork supporting character
settingOfWork Quauhnahuac (Cuernavaca), Mexico NERFINISHED
yearOfWorkPublication 1947

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: Dr. Vigil
Description of subject: Dr. Vigil is a compassionate and clear-sighted doctor who serves as a moral and rational counterpoint to the Consul’s self-destruction in Malcolm Lowry’s novel "Under the Volcano."

Referenced by (1)

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

Under the Volcano hasCharacter Dr. Vigil