DeMille family

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The DeMille family is a prominent American show-business dynasty best known for pioneering film director Cecil B. DeMille and its multigenerational influence on Hollywood cinema.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American show-business dynasty
family
associatedWith classical Hollywood cinema
early sound films
silent film era
basedIn Hollywood
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
fieldOfWork dance
film directing
film industry
film production
screenwriting
theatre
hasCulturalImpact contributed to popularization of large-scale biblical and historical films
helped define image of Hollywood director as showman
hasEthnicOrigin American
European descent
hasGenerationalInfluence multiple generations active in film
hasLineageConnection Agnes de Mille
surface form: Agnes de Mille is niece of Cecil B. DeMille

DeMille family self-linksurface differs
surface form: Cecil B. DeMille is son of Henry Churchill de Mille

Katherine DeMille
surface form: Katherine DeMille is adopted daughter of Cecil B. DeMille

William C. deMille
surface form: William C. deMille is son of Henry Churchill de Mille
hasMatriarch Beatrice DeMille
surface form: Beatrice deMille
hasNotableMember Agnes de Mille
Beatrice DeMille
surface form: Beatrice deMille

Cecil B. DeMille
Henry Churchill de Mille
Katherine DeMille
Richard DeMille
surface form: Richard de Mille

William C. deMille
hasPatriarch Henry Churchill de Mille
hasProfessionalNetwork New York theatre community
surface form: Broadway theatre community

Hollywood studios
Paramount Pictures
influenced American film narrative style
development of Hollywood epic film
influencedBy American theatre tradition
knownFor contributions to American popular culture
spectacle-driven filmmaking tradition
languageOfWork English
notableBranch DeMille family self-linksurface differs
surface form: Cecil B. DeMille branch

William C. deMille branch
notableFor influence on Hollywood cinema
pioneering work in motion pictures
timePeriodOfProminence 20th century

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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: DeMille family
Description of subject: The DeMille family is a prominent American show-business dynasty best known for pioneering film director Cecil B. DeMille and its multigenerational influence on Hollywood cinema.

Referenced by (5)

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

Cecilia DeMille Harper notableFamily DeMille family
DeMille family hasLineageConnection DeMille family self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Cecil B. DeMille is son of Henry Churchill de Mille
DeMille family notableBranch DeMille family self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Cecil B. DeMille branch
Blanche de Mille (stepmother) hasFamilyConnection DeMille family
subject surface form: Blanche de Mille
this entity surface form: deMille family
John Blount DeMille memberOf DeMille family