Peter Benenson

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Peter Benenson was a British lawyer and human rights activist best known for launching the international campaign that led to the creation of Amnesty International.

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Label Occurrences
Peter Benenson canonical 4

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf founder
human
human rights activist
lawyer
awardReceived Pax Christi International Peace Award
Poblet Monastery Peace Prize
birthName Peter James Henry Solomon
causeOfDeath pneumonia
conflictParticipatedIn World War II
surface form: Second World War
convertedTo Roman Catholicism
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom
surface form: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
dateOfBirth 1921-07-31
dateOfDeath 2005-02-25
educatedAt Balliol College, Oxford NERFINISHED
Eton College
Lincoln's Inn
familyName Benenson
fieldOfWork civil liberties
human rights law
founded Amnesty International
gender male
givenName Peter
honorificTitle Commander of the Order of the British Empire
knownFor founding Amnesty International
launching an international campaign for prisoners of conscience
languageSpoken English
memberOf Bar Council of England and Wales
surface form: Bar of England and Wales
militaryService British Army
movement civil liberties movement
human rights movement
name Peter Benenson self-link
nationality British
notableWork The Forgotten Prisoners
occupation human rights activist
lawyer
political activist
organizationFounded Amnesty International
placeOfBirth London, England
surface form: London
placeOfDeath Oxford
publication The Forgotten Prisoners
publicationDate 1961-05-28
publishedIn The Observer
religion Roman Catholicism
residence Oxford
workedAs cryptographer
yearFoundedOrganization 1961

How these facts were elicited

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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: Peter Benenson
Description of subject: Peter Benenson was a British lawyer and human rights activist best known for launching the international campaign that led to the creation of Amnesty International.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Amnesty International founder Peter Benenson
Amnesty founder Peter Benenson
AI founder Peter Benenson
subject surface form: Amnesty International
Peter Benenson name Peter Benenson self-link