Kasi Lemmons

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Kasi Lemmons is an American film director, screenwriter, and actress known for works such as "Eve's Bayou," "Harriet," and other character-driven dramas exploring African American experiences.

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Label Occurrences
Kasi Lemmons canonical 17

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American filmmaker
actress
film director
human
screenwriter
awardReceived National Board of Review Award for Best Directorial Debut
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
directed Black Nativity
Eve's Bayou
Harriet
Talk to Me
The Caveman’s Valentine
surface form: The Caveman's Valentine

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
educatedAt New York University
The New School
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
employer NYU Tisch School of the Arts
surface form: New York University Tisch School of the Arts
ethnicGroup Black Americans
surface form: African American
familyName Lemmons
fieldOfWork acting
cinema
screenwriting
genre biographical film
drama film
givenName Kasi
hasChild Vondie Curtis-Hall
surface form: Che Ayende Curtis-Hall
knownFor character-driven dramas
exploring African American experiences
languageOfWorkOrName English
name Kasi Lemmons self-link
nominatedFor Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature
NAACP Image Award
surface form: NAACP Image Awards
notableWork Black Nativity
Eve's Bayou
Harriet
Talk to Me
The Caveman’s Valentine
surface form: The Caveman's Valentine

I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
surface form: Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
occupation actress
film director
producer
screenwriter
placeOfBirth St. Louis, Missouri, United States
positionHeld film professor
residence New York City
screenwriterOf Black Nativity
Eve's Bayou
Harriet
The Caveman’s Valentine
surface form: The Caveman's Valentine
spouse Vondie Curtis-Hall

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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: Kasi Lemmons
Description of subject: Kasi Lemmons is an American film director, screenwriter, and actress known for works such as "Eve's Bayou," "Harriet," and other character-driven dramas exploring African American experiences.

Referenced by (17)

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

Black Nativity director Kasi Lemmons
Black Nativity screenwriter Kasi Lemmons
The Caveman’s Valentine director Kasi Lemmons
The Caveman’s Valentine producer Kasi Lemmons
Kasi Lemmons Productions hasFounder Kasi Lemmons
Kasi Lemmons name Kasi Lemmons self-link
Terilyn A. Shropshire hasWorkedWith Kasi Lemmons
Vondie Curtis-Hall spouse Kasi Lemmons
Vondie Curtis-Hall partner Kasi Lemmons
Tak Fujimoto workedWith Kasi Lemmons
Eve's Bayou director Kasi Lemmons
Eve's Bayou screenwriter Kasi Lemmons