Ricardo Arana
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Ricardo Arana is a central cadet character in Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel "The Time of the Hero," whose vulnerability and tragic fate expose the brutality and corruption within a Peruvian military academy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ricardo Arana canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4451038 — 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: Ricardo Arana Context triple: [The Time of the Hero, hasMainCharacter, Ricardo Arana]
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A.
Ricardo Lara
Ricardo Lara is an American politician who serves as California's Insurance Commissioner, overseeing the state's insurance industry and consumer protection efforts.
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B.
Raúl Otero
Raúl Otero was an architect known for his role in designing El Capitolio, the grand national capitol building in Havana, Cuba.
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C.
Pedro Luis Lazo
Pedro Luis Lazo is a renowned Cuban baseball pitcher, widely regarded as one of the greatest hurlers in the history of Cuban baseball and a standout for both Pinar del Río and the Cuban national team.
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D.
Juan Escalona
Juan Escalona was a political and military figure who played a significant leadership role during the brief existence of the First Republic of Venezuela in the early 19th century.
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E.
Servando Carrasco
Servando Carrasco is an American professional soccer player and midfielder who has played in Major League Soccer and is married to U.S. women’s national team star Alex Morgan.
- 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: Ricardo Arana Target entity description: Ricardo Arana is a central cadet character in Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel "The Time of the Hero," whose vulnerability and tragic fate expose the brutality and corruption within a Peruvian military academy.
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A.
Ricardo Lara
Ricardo Lara is an American politician who serves as California's Insurance Commissioner, overseeing the state's insurance industry and consumer protection efforts.
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B.
Raúl Otero
Raúl Otero was an architect known for his role in designing El Capitolio, the grand national capitol building in Havana, Cuba.
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C.
Pedro Luis Lazo
Pedro Luis Lazo is a renowned Cuban baseball pitcher, widely regarded as one of the greatest hurlers in the history of Cuban baseball and a standout for both Pinar del Río and the Cuban national team.
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D.
Juan Escalona
Juan Escalona was a political and military figure who played a significant leadership role during the brief existence of the First Republic of Venezuela in the early 19th century.
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E.
Servando Carrasco
Servando Carrasco is an American professional soccer player and midfielder who has played in Major League Soccer and is married to U.S. women’s national team star Alex Morgan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| 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 ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
abuse of power
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authoritarianism ⓘ institutional corruption ⓘ loss of innocence ⓘ military brutality ⓘ victimization ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
sensitive
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vulnerable ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Peru ⓘ |
| createdBy | Mario Vargas Llosa ⓘ |
| genreContext |
Latin American literature
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Peruvian literature ⓘ |
| hasFate | tragic ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Spanish ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
exposes brutality within a Peruvian military academy
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exposes corruption within a Peruvian military academy ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central cadet character ⓘ |
| originalWorkTitle |
La ciudad y los perros
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linked to:
The Time of the Hero
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| publicationContext |
Boom of Latin American literature
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linked to:
Latin American Boom
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| setting | Peruvian military academy ⓘ |
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: Ricardo Arana Description of subject: Ricardo Arana is a central cadet character in Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel "The Time of the Hero," whose vulnerability and tragic fate expose the brutality and corruption within a Peruvian military academy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.