How can I insert an additional argument after the last argument in a prolog procedure?

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I am new to learning prolog, and I want to know, if we have some procedure like

father("Nic","Adam").

and I want to write a function that it will add new value to this

father("Nic","Adam","something"..)

how can I do this? Using list? Or what?

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