Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race

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Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race is a satirical, faux-textbook-style overview of human civilization and culture, presented as if explaining humanity to alien visitors.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
humor book
satirical book
author Jon Stewart
The Daily Show
surface form: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
award Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
awardYear 2011
basedOn The Daily Show
surface form: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
contains charts
diagrams
photographs
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
format faux textbook
frameNarrative guide for alien visitors to Earth
genre comedy
non-fiction humor
satire
illustrated true
intendedAudience adult readers
isbn10 044657922X
isbn13 9780446579223
language English
libraryOfCongressClassification PN6231.H8
marketedAs companion to America (The Book)
mediaType audiobook
hardcover
print
narrativePerspective addressed to alien visitors
notableFor parody of educational textbooks
oclcNumber 535493087
originalLanguage English
pageCount 256
predecessor America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
publicationDate 2010-09-21
publisher Grand Central Publishing
setting post-human future
style mock reference book
subject human civilization
human culture
tone irreverent
satirical
topic culture
history of Earth
human biology
politics
religion
technology
workOf Jon Stewart
surface form: Jon Stewart and The Daily Show writers

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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: Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
Description of subject: Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race is a satirical, faux-textbook-style overview of human civilization and culture, presented as if explaining humanity to alien visitors.

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Jon Stewart notableWork Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz notableWork Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race