Magnus Pym
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Magnus Pym is the conflicted British intelligence officer and double agent at the center of John le Carré’s novel "A Perfect Spy," whose life of deception explores themes of identity, loyalty, and betrayal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Magnus Pym canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10558153 — 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: Magnus Pym Context triple: [A Perfect Spy, mainCharacter, Magnus Pym]
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A.
Hank Pym
Hank Pym is a Marvel Comics scientist and superhero best known as the original Ant-Man and the creator of the size-changing Pym Particles and Ultron.
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B.
Danny Ketch
Danny Ketch is a Marvel Comics character best known as a modern incarnation of Ghost Rider, a supernatural antihero bonded to the Spirit of Vengeance.
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C.
Quentin Beck
Quentin Beck, also known as Mysterio, is a master illusionist and manipulative antagonist in the Spider-Man universe who poses as a heroic figure while secretly orchestrating elaborate deceptions.
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D.
Ray Palmer
Ray Palmer was an influential American science fiction editor and writer best known for popularizing pulp magazines and promoting imaginative, often controversial speculative fiction in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Lucius Fox
Lucius Fox is a brilliant inventor and executive at Wayne Enterprises who serves as Bruce Wayne’s trusted ally and technology provider in the Batman films.
- 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: Magnus Pym Target entity description: Magnus Pym is the conflicted British intelligence officer and double agent at the center of John le Carré’s novel "A Perfect Spy," whose life of deception explores themes of identity, loyalty, and betrayal.
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A.
Hank Pym
Hank Pym is a Marvel Comics scientist and superhero best known as the original Ant-Man and the creator of the size-changing Pym Particles and Ultron.
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B.
Danny Ketch
Danny Ketch is a Marvel Comics character best known as a modern incarnation of Ghost Rider, a supernatural antihero bonded to the Spirit of Vengeance.
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C.
Quentin Beck
Quentin Beck, also known as Mysterio, is a master illusionist and manipulative antagonist in the Spider-Man universe who poses as a heroic figure while secretly orchestrating elaborate deceptions.
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D.
Ray Palmer
Ray Palmer was an influential American science fiction editor and writer best known for popularizing pulp magazines and promoting imaginative, often controversial speculative fiction in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Lucius Fox
Lucius Fox is a brilliant inventor and executive at Wayne Enterprises who serves as Bruce Wayne’s trusted ally and technology provider in the Batman films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British intelligence officer
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double agent ⓘ fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ spy ⓘ |
| affiliation | British intelligence ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A Perfect Spy ⓘ |
| basedOn | aspects of John le Carré’s own life ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
conflicted
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deceptive ⓘ introspective ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | John le Carré ⓘ |
| familyName | Pym ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | A Perfect Spy ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWorkFeaturingCharacter | 1986 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | spy novel ⓘ |
| givenName | Magnus ⓘ |
| hasAllegiance | British intelligence service in the novel ⓘ |
| hasFather | Rick Pym ⓘ |
| hasSecretAllegiance | foreign intelligence service in the novel ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
espionage
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family relationships ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ personal identity ⓘ |
| literaryGenreContext | Cold War espionage fiction ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
explores themes of betrayal
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explores themes of identity ⓘ explores themes of loyalty ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation |
intelligence officer
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spy ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist of the novel A Perfect Spy ⓘ |
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: Magnus Pym Description of subject: Magnus Pym is the conflicted British intelligence officer and double agent at the center of John le Carré’s novel "A Perfect Spy," whose life of deception explores themes of identity, loyalty, and betrayal.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.