Miss Prym
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Miss Prym is the central protagonist of Paulo Coelho’s novel "The Devil and Miss Prym," a young woman in a small village who becomes embroiled in a moral dilemma when confronted with a stranger’s dark proposal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Miss Prym canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7694166 — 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: Miss Prym Context triple: [the Priest, associatedWithCharacter, Miss Prym]
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A.
Prissy
Prissy is a diminutive nickname for the given name Priscilla, often used as an affectionate or informal form.
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B.
Mathilda
Mathilda is the middle name of Elivera Mathilda Carlson Doud, the wife of former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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C.
Barbara
Barbara is a station on Paris Métro Line 4 serving the southern suburbs of the French capital.
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D.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
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E.
Phyllis
Phyllis is a 1970s American television sitcom, spun off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, that stars Cloris Leachman as the widowed Phyllis Lindstrom starting a new life in San Francisco.
- 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: Miss Prym Target entity description: Miss Prym is the central protagonist of Paulo Coelho’s novel "The Devil and Miss Prym," a young woman in a small village who becomes embroiled in a moral dilemma when confronted with a stranger’s dark proposal.
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A.
Prissy
Prissy is a diminutive nickname for the given name Priscilla, often used as an affectionate or informal form.
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B.
Mathilda
Mathilda is the middle name of Elivera Mathilda Carlson Doud, the wife of former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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C.
Barbara
Barbara is a station on Paris Métro Line 4 serving the southern suburbs of the French capital.
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D.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
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E.
Phyllis
Phyllis is a 1970s American television sitcom, spun off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, that stars Cloris Leachman as the widowed Phyllis Lindstrom starting a new life in San Francisco.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Devil and Miss Prym ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
gold bars hidden in Viscos
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the Stranger ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Brazilian (Paulo Coelho) ⓘ |
| centralConflictType | ethical dilemma ⓘ |
| centralConflictWith | the Stranger ⓘ |
| characterArc |
confronts inner fears and doubts
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must decide between personal gain and communal welfare ⓘ |
| characterIn | The Devil and Miss Prym ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting | France ⓘ |
| createdBy | Paulo Coelho ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Devil and Miss Prym ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext |
The Devil and Miss Prym (2000 novel)
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linked to:
The Devil and Miss Prym
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
moral dilemma about sacrifice and greed
ⓘ
stranger’s dark proposal ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Portuguese ⓘ |
| literaryGenre |
allegorical fiction
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philosophical novel ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th century literature ⓘ |
| moralConflict | whether to betray her village for gold ⓘ |
| moralQuestion | Are humans inherently good or evil? ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
explores moral dilemma
ⓘ
tests boundaries between good and evil ⓘ |
| notableFor | embodying Coelho’s exploration of good and evil in everyday life ⓘ |
| occupation | barmaid ⓘ |
| originalLanguageOfWork | Portuguese ⓘ |
| originalPublisherOfWork | Editora Rocco (Brazilian edition of The Devil and Miss Prym) ⓘ |
| partOf | And on the Seventh Day trilogy ⓘ |
| publisherOfWork |
HarperCollins (English edition of The Devil and Miss Prym)
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linked to:
HarperCollins
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| relatedWork |
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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Veronika Decides to Die ⓘ |
| residence |
Viscos
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small mountain village ⓘ |
| role | central protagonist ⓘ |
| settingFeature | isolated rural community ⓘ |
| symbolism |
embodies struggle between conscience and desire
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represents ordinary person facing extreme temptation ⓘ |
| targetOf | the Stranger’s experiment on human nature ⓘ |
| themeEmbodies |
courage
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fear ⓘ good versus evil ⓘ moral choice ⓘ temptation ⓘ |
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: Miss Prym Description of subject: Miss Prym is the central protagonist of Paulo Coelho’s novel "The Devil and Miss Prym," a young woman in a small village who becomes embroiled in a moral dilemma when confronted with a stranger’s dark proposal.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.