Hugh Firmin

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Hugh Firmin is a character in Malcolm Lowry’s novel "Under the Volcano," depicted as the brother of the alcoholic British consul Geoffrey Firmin.

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Label Occurrences
Hugh Firmin canonical 1

Statements (26)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
appearsIn Under the Volcano NERFINISHED
appearsInMedium novel
associatedWithTheme brotherhood
disillusionment
guilt
political idealism
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
creator Malcolm Lowry NERFINISHED
fictionalUniverse Under the Volcano NERFINISHED
firstAppearance Under the Volcano NERFINISHED
gender male
hasRelative Geoffrey Firmin NERFINISHED
Yvonne Firmin NERFINISHED
languageOfCharacter English
literaryGenreOfWork modernist novel
narrativeRole supporting character
nationalityInFiction British
occupation journalist
musician
seaman
playsInstrument guitar
setInWork Mexico NERFINISHED
sibling Geoffrey Firmin NERFINISHED
timePeriodOfFiction 1930s

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

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: Hugh Firmin
Description of subject: Hugh Firmin is a character in Malcolm Lowry’s novel "Under the Volcano," depicted as the brother of the alcoholic British consul Geoffrey Firmin.

Referenced by (1)

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

Under the Volcano hasCharacter Hugh Firmin