Elegy on Captain Cook

E129488

elegy poem

"Elegy on Captain Cook" is a poetic tribute by English writer Anna Seward commemorating the life, voyages, and death of the explorer Captain James Cook.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Elegy on Captain Cook canonical	3
Elegy on the Death of Captain Cook	1

Statements (25)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	elegy ⓘ poem ⓘ
aboutEvent	death of James Cook in Hawaii ⓘ
author	Anna Seward ⓘ
commemorates	James Cook ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom ⓘ
dedicatedTo	James Cook ⓘ
genre	commemorative poetry ⓘ
hasTheme	exploration ⓘ heroism ⓘ loss ⓘ mortality ⓘ national pride ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
literaryForm	lyric poetry ⓘ
literaryMovement	late 18th-century English poetry ⓘ
literaryPeriod	Georgian era ⓘ
mainSubject	James Cook ⓘ death of James Cook ⓘ voyages of James Cook ⓘ
mentions	Pacific Ocean ⓘ voyages of discovery ⓘ
publicationCentury	18th century ⓘ
workOfAuthor	Anna Seward ⓘ
writtenInResponseTo	news of James Cook's death ⓘ

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: Elegy on Captain Cook
Description of subject: "Elegy on Captain Cook" is a poetic tribute by English writer Anna Seward commemorating the life, voyages, and death of the explorer Captain James Cook.

Referenced by (4)

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

Anna Seward → notableWork → Elegy on Captain Cook ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elegy on the Death of Captain Cook

Seward → notableWork → Elegy on Captain Cook ⓘ

subject surface form: Anna Seward

Swan of Lichfield → notableWork → Elegy on Captain Cook ⓘ

subject surface form: Anna Seward