Perken
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Perken is a central character in André Malraux’s novel "La Voie royale," depicted as an adventurous, driven explorer whose quest for meaning and glory leads him deep into the dangers of the Cambodian jungle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Perken canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6446051 — 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: Perken Context triple: [La Voie royale, hasMainCharacter, Perken]
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A.
Perka
Perka is a small settlement located on Car Nicobar Island in the Nicobar district of India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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B.
Perche
Perche is a historic rural region in northwestern France known for its rolling countryside, forests, and traditional manors.
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C.
Pijin
Pijin is an English-based creole language widely used as a lingua franca in the Solomon Islands.
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D.
Pernaja
Pernaja is a former municipality and coastal village in southern Finland, now part of the town of Loviisa.
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E.
Nuska
Nuska is a Mesopotamian god of fire and light, often serving as a divine vizier and attendant to major deities in the Sumerian and Akkadian pantheons.
- 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: Perken Target entity description: Perken is a central character in André Malraux’s novel "La Voie royale," depicted as an adventurous, driven explorer whose quest for meaning and glory leads him deep into the dangers of the Cambodian jungle.
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A.
Perka
Perka is a small settlement located on Car Nicobar Island in the Nicobar district of India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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B.
Perche
Perche is a historic rural region in northwestern France known for its rolling countryside, forests, and traditional manors.
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C.
Pijin
Pijin is an English-based creole language widely used as a lingua franca in the Solomon Islands.
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D.
Pernaja
Pernaja is a former municipality and coastal village in southern Finland, now part of the town of Loviisa.
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E.
Nuska
Nuska is a Mesopotamian god of fire and light, often serving as a divine vizier and attendant to major deities in the Sumerian and Akkadian pantheons.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
La Voie royale
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Royal Way ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
colonial exploration
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existential quest ⓘ risk and heroism ⓘ search for identity ⓘ |
| characterInLanguage | French ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| createdBy | André Malraux ⓘ |
| describedAs |
adventurous
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driven ⓘ explorer ⓘ |
| faces | danger ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext |
adventure fiction
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existentialist literature ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| literaryPeriodContext | interwar literature ⓘ |
| motivatedBy |
quest for glory
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quest for meaning ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central character
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protagonist ⓘ |
| settingOfActivities | Cambodian jungle ⓘ |
| workPublicationYearContext | 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: Perken Description of subject: Perken is a central character in André Malraux’s novel "La Voie royale," depicted as an adventurous, driven explorer whose quest for meaning and glory leads him deep into the dangers of the Cambodian jungle.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.