Hugh Firmin
E952755
Hugh Firmin is a character in Malcolm Lowry’s novel "Under the Volcano," depicted as the brother of the alcoholic British consul Geoffrey Firmin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hugh Firmin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11754467 — 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: Hugh Firmin Context triple: [Under the Volcano, hasCharacter, Hugh Firmin]
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A.
Firmin Bourgeois
Firmin Bourgeois was a 19th-century French architect best known for designing the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris.
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B.
Jules Lefebvre
Jules Lefebvre was a prominent 19th-century French academic painter renowned for his refined portraits and idealized female figures, and for his influential role as a teacher in Paris.
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C.
Louis Charbonnier
Louis Charbonnier was a French Revolutionary general best known for his leadership role in the Sambre–Meuse campaign during the War of the First Coalition.
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D.
Frantz Jourdain
Frantz Jourdain was a French architect, art critic, and influential cultural organizer known for championing modern art and architecture in the early 20th century.
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E.
Gustave Besnard
Gustave Besnard was a high-ranking French naval officer who attained the prestigious rank of Admiral of France.
- 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: Hugh Firmin Target entity description: Hugh Firmin is a character in Malcolm Lowry’s novel "Under the Volcano," depicted as the brother of the alcoholic British consul Geoffrey Firmin.
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A.
Firmin Bourgeois
Firmin Bourgeois was a 19th-century French architect best known for designing the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris.
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B.
Jules Lefebvre
Jules Lefebvre was a prominent 19th-century French academic painter renowned for his refined portraits and idealized female figures, and for his influential role as a teacher in Paris.
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C.
Louis Charbonnier
Louis Charbonnier was a French Revolutionary general best known for his leadership role in the Sambre–Meuse campaign during the War of the First Coalition.
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D.
Frantz Jourdain
Frantz Jourdain was a French architect, art critic, and influential cultural organizer known for championing modern art and architecture in the early 20th century.
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E.
Gustave Besnard
Gustave Besnard was a high-ranking French naval officer who attained the prestigious rank of Admiral of France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Under the Volcano ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
brotherhood
ⓘ
disillusionment ⓘ guilt ⓘ political idealism ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Malcolm Lowry ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Under the Volcano ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Under the Volcano ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Geoffrey Firmin
ⓘ
Yvonne Firmin ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenreOfWork | modernist novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | British ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ seaman ⓘ |
| playsInstrument | guitar ⓘ |
| setInWork | Mexico ⓘ |
| sibling | Geoffrey Firmin ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFiction | 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: Hugh Firmin Description of subject: Hugh Firmin is a character in Malcolm Lowry’s novel "Under the Volcano," depicted as the brother of the alcoholic British consul Geoffrey Firmin.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.