I found it hard to use entities with more than 4 Attributes when defining them as simple compounds like person(Firstname, Lastname, Gender, Age, State, Country

I found it hard to use entities with more than 4 Attributes when defining them as simple compounds like person(Firstname, Lastname, Gender, Age, State, Country). Accessing the attributes by position makes the code hard to read because one has to remember the position and mistakes are not catched because there is no type system. Would you recommend using the libray record or using dicts in swi-prolog? This would make the code non portable. Moreover, do you recommend dedicated strings or list of atoms to represent strings?