The Slave
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The Slave is a central character in Mario Vargas Llosa's novel "The Time of the Hero," representing the psychological turmoil and moral conflicts within a Peruvian military academy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Slave canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4451040 — 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: The Slave Context triple: [The Time of the Hero, hasMainCharacter, The Slave]
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A.
The Slave
The Slave is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer that explores themes of faith, love, and spiritual resilience in 17th-century Poland through the story of a Jewish man enslaved after a massacre.
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B.
The Slave
"The Slave" is a provocative 1964 one-act play by Amiri Baraka that explores Black nationalism, racial conflict, and revolutionary violence in the United States.
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C.
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
"Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" is an 1856 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores resistance to slavery through the story of fugitive slaves living in the Great Dismal Swamp.
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D.
Book of Negroes
The Book of Negroes is a historical ledger compiled by the British in 1783 that records the names and details of thousands of Black Loyalists who were evacuated from the United States to British territories after the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an 1861 autobiographical slave narrative by Harriet Jacobs that exposes the sexual exploitation and brutal realities of slavery from a Black woman’s perspective.
- 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: The Slave Target entity description: The Slave is a central character in Mario Vargas Llosa's novel "The Time of the Hero," representing the psychological turmoil and moral conflicts within a Peruvian military academy.
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A.
The Slave
The Slave is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer that explores themes of faith, love, and spiritual resilience in 17th-century Poland through the story of a Jewish man enslaved after a massacre.
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B.
The Slave
"The Slave" is a provocative 1964 one-act play by Amiri Baraka that explores Black nationalism, racial conflict, and revolutionary violence in the United States.
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C.
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
"Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" is an 1856 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores resistance to slavery through the story of fugitive slaves living in the Great Dismal Swamp.
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D.
Book of Negroes
The Book of Negroes is a historical ledger compiled by the British in 1783 that records the names and details of thousands of Black Loyalists who were evacuated from the United States to British territories after the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an 1861 autobiographical slave narrative by Harriet Jacobs that exposes the sexual exploitation and brutal realities of slavery from a Black woman’s perspective.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
La ciudad y los perros
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linked to:
The Time of the Hero
The Time of the Hero ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Leoncio Prado Military Academy
ⓘ
linked to:
Peruvian Chorrillos Military School
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| associatedWithTheme |
abuse of power
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institutional violence ⓘ loss of innocence ⓘ masculinity in military culture ⓘ social hierarchy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Peru ⓘ |
| createdBy | Mario Vargas Llosa ⓘ |
| genreContext |
coming-of-age novel
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literary fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedInFiction | Lima ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| partOf | cadet group at the academy ⓘ |
| represents |
individual conscience
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moral conflict ⓘ psychological turmoil ⓘ victimization within authoritarian systems ⓘ |
| setting |
Peruvian military academy
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linked to:
Peruvian Chorrillos Military School
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| subjectOf | literary criticism on Latin American Boom ⓘ |
| thematicFunction |
critique of military authoritarianism
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exploration of complicity ⓘ exploration of fear ⓘ exploration of guilt ⓘ exploration of loyalty and betrayal ⓘ |
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: The Slave Description of subject: The Slave is a central character in Mario Vargas Llosa's novel "The Time of the Hero," representing the psychological turmoil and moral conflicts within a Peruvian military academy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.