Dale Carnegie

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Dale Carnegie was an American writer and lecturer best known for his influential self-improvement and interpersonal skills book "How to Win Friends and Influence People."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf author
human
lecturer
self-help writer
activeYearsEnd 1955
activeYearsStart 1910
almaMater Warrensburg Teachers College
surface form: State Teachers College at Warrensburg
basedIn New York City
birthName Dale Harbison Carnagey
burialPlace Belton, Missouri, United States
causeOfDeath Hodgkin lymphoma
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1888-11-24
dateOfDeath 1955-11-01
educatedAt Warrensburg Teachers College
ethnicGroup European American
fieldOfWork interpersonal communication
public speaking
self-improvement
founded Dale Carnegie Course in Effective Speaking and Human Relations
Dale Carnegie Course in Effective Speaking and Human Relations
surface form: Dale Carnegie Training
fullName Dale Carnegie self-linksurface differs
surface form: Dale Harbison Carnegie
genre non-fiction
self-help literature
hasChild Donna Dale Carnegie
hasSignatureWork How to Win Friends and Influence People
influenced business training practices
interpersonal skills training
motivational speaking
self-help movement
languageOfWorkOrName English
notableIdea importance of interpersonal skills in success
principles for winning friends and influencing people
techniques for overcoming worry
notableWork How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Lincoln the Unknown
notedFor developing courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, and public speaking
popularizing modern self-improvement courses
occupation lecturer
public speaking teacher
self-help author
writer
placeOfBirth Maryville, Missouri, United States
placeOfDeath Queens
surface form: Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, United States
publicationDateOfWork 1936 (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
surface form: 1948 (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living)
religion Presbyterian
surface form: Presbyterianism
spouse Dorothy Price Vanderpool
Lolita Baucaire

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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.
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Subject: Dale Carnegie
Description of subject: Dale Carnegie was an American writer and lecturer best known for his influential self-improvement and interpersonal skills book "How to Win Friends and Influence People."

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

Carnegie hasNotableBearer Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie fullName Dale Carnegie self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Dale Harbison Carnegie
Lincoln the Unknown author Dale Carnegie
Lincoln the Unknown workOf Dale Carnegie
Lolita Baucaire spouse Dale Carnegie
Maryville, Missouri, United States isBirthplaceOf Dale Carnegie
subject surface form: Maryville, Missouri
Maryville, Missouri, United States hasNotableResident Dale Carnegie
subject surface form: Maryville, Missouri
Donna Dale Carnegie childOf Dale Carnegie
Donna Dale Carnegie hasRelative Dale Carnegie
Dorothy Price Vanderpool spouse Dale Carnegie
Dorothy Price Vanderpool associatedWith Dale Carnegie
this entity surface form: self-improvement pioneer Dale Carnegie
Dale Harbison Carnagey alsoKnownAs Dale Carnegie
Carnagey alsoKnownAs Dale Carnegie
subject surface form: Dale Harbison Carnagey