José Arcadio Buendía
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José Arcadio Buendía is the visionary yet increasingly obsessive patriarch who founds the town of Macondo in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| José Arcadio Buendía canonical | 9 |
| José Arcadio (son of José Arcadio Buendía) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T834379 — 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.
Target entity: José Arcadio Buendía Context triple: [One Hundred Years of Solitude, mainCharacter, José Arcadio Buendía]
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Rodolfo
Rodolfo is the original Italian given name of Rudolph Valentino, the iconic silent film actor and sex symbol of the 1920s.
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Bernardo Yorba
Bernardo Yorba was a prominent 19th-century Californio ranchero and landowner whose extensive holdings and influence in Southern California led to places like Yorba Linda being named in his honor.
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Joaquín Toesca
Joaquín Toesca was an 18th-century Italian-born architect who became a key figure in Chilean neoclassical architecture.
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Eugenio
Eugenio is a masculine given name of Greek origin, commonly used in Spanish- and Italian-speaking countries.
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Andrés
Andrés is a Spanish given name commonly used as the equivalent of Andrew.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: José Arcadio Buendía Target entity description: José Arcadio Buendía is the visionary yet increasingly obsessive patriarch who founds the town of Macondo in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
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A.
Rodolfo
Rodolfo is the original Italian given name of Rudolph Valentino, the iconic silent film actor and sex symbol of the 1920s.
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B.
Bernardo Yorba
Bernardo Yorba was a prominent 19th-century Californio ranchero and landowner whose extensive holdings and influence in Southern California led to places like Yorba Linda being named in his honor.
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C.
Joaquín Toesca
Joaquín Toesca was an 18th-century Italian-born architect who became a key figure in Chilean neoclassical architecture.
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D.
Eugenio
Eugenio is a masculine given name of Greek origin, commonly used in Spanish- and Italian-speaking countries.
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E.
Andrés
Andrés is a Spanish given name commonly used as the equivalent of Andrew.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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founder of Macondo ⓘ literary character ⓘ patriarch ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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surface form:
Cien años de soledad
One Hundred Years of Solitude ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Buendía family
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Macondo ⓘ Melquíades ⓘ gypsies ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
curious
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obsessive ⓘ stubborn ⓘ visionary ⓘ |
| child |
Amaranta
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Aureliano Buendía ⓘ José Arcadio (son of José Arcadio Buendía) ⓘ
surface form:
José Arcadio
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| countryOfFictionalSetting | Colombia ⓘ |
| createdBy | Gabriel García Márquez ⓘ |
| fate | dies tied to a chestnut tree ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1967 ⓘ |
| founds | Macondo ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | magic realism ⓘ |
| household | Buendía house in Macondo ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Spanish ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Latin American Boom ⓘ |
| mentalState | gradual madness ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
founder of the family saga
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symbol of obsessive pursuit of knowledge ⓘ symbol of visionary ambition ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding Macondo
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interest in alchemy ⓘ interest in magnets and inventions ⓘ obsession with scientific experiments ⓘ |
| occupation | founder of a town ⓘ |
| relative |
Amaranta
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Aureliano Buendía ⓘ José Arcadio (son of José Arcadio Buendía) ⓘ
surface form:
José Arcadio
Úrsula Iguarán ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
patriarch of the Buendía family
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protagonist ⓘ |
| settingOfLife | Macondo ⓘ |
| spouse | Úrsula Iguarán ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Latin American utopian dreams
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the dangers of obsessive knowledge-seeking ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: José Arcadio Buendía Description of subject: José Arcadio Buendía is the visionary yet increasingly obsessive patriarch who founds the town of Macondo in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.