Perico
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Perico is a minor character in Ernest Hemingway's novella "The Old Man and the Sea," known as a young boy who helps the old fisherman Santiago by providing him with newspapers and showing him quiet support.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Perico canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T366120 — 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: Perico Context triple: [The Old Man and the Sea, containsCharacter, Perico]
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A.
Pepa
Pepa is a traditional Assamese wind instrument, typically made from buffalo horn, used in folk and Bihu music.
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B.
Chuch’e
Chuch’e is an alternative spelling of Juche, the North Korean state ideology centered on political self-reliance and national independence.
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C.
Pacho
Pacho is a town and municipality in the Cundinamarca Department of central Colombia, known historically for its agricultural production and scenic Andean surroundings.
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D.
Diego
Diego is a given name of Spanish origin commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries and beyond.
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E.
Rodolfo
Rodolfo is the original Italian given name of Rudolph Valentino, the iconic silent film actor and sex symbol of the 1920s.
- 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: Perico Target entity description: Perico is a minor character in Ernest Hemingway's novella "The Old Man and the Sea," known as a young boy who helps the old fisherman Santiago by providing him with newspapers and showing him quiet support.
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A.
Pepa
Pepa is a traditional Assamese wind instrument, typically made from buffalo horn, used in folk and Bihu music.
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B.
Chuch’e
Chuch’e is an alternative spelling of Juche, the North Korean state ideology centered on political self-reliance and national independence.
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C.
Pacho
Pacho is a town and municipality in the Cundinamarca Department of central Colombia, known historically for its agricultural production and scenic Andean surroundings.
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D.
Diego
Diego is a given name of Spanish origin commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries and beyond.
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E.
Rodolfo
Rodolfo is the original Italian given name of Rudolph Valentino, the iconic silent film actor and sex symbol of the 1920s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ minor character ⓘ |
| ageGroup | young boy ⓘ |
| appearsAlongside | Manolin ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Old Man and the Sea ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | book ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
community support
ⓘ
solidarity ⓘ |
| characterType | supporting character ⓘ |
| createdBy | Ernest Hemingway ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Old Man and the Sea universe ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1952 ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovementOfAuthor | modernist literature ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | Cuban ⓘ |
| provides | newspapers ⓘ |
| providesTo | Santiago ⓘ |
| roleInStory | helper of Santiago ⓘ |
| settingOfAppearance | Cuban fishing village ⓘ |
| shows | quiet support ⓘ |
| supports | Santiago’s fishing efforts ⓘ |
| supportsCharacter | Santiago ⓘ |
| workGenre | novella ⓘ |
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: Perico Description of subject: Perico is a minor character in Ernest Hemingway's novella "The Old Man and the Sea," known as a young boy who helps the old fisherman Santiago by providing him with newspapers and showing him quiet support.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.