Pierre Lorillard II
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Pierre Lorillard II was an American tobacco manufacturer and entrepreneur best known for building the Lorillard family business into one of the earliest and most prominent tobacco companies in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pierre Lorillard II canonical | 2 |
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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human ⓘ industrialist ⓘ tobacco company ⓘ tobacco manufacturer ⓘ |
| business | Lorillard Tobacco Company ⓘ |
| businessRegion | United States of America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyBusiness | Lorillard tobacco business ⓘ |
| hasFamilyRelation | descendant of the founder of the Lorillard tobacco enterprise ⓘ |
| industry |
tobacco industry
ⓘ
tobacco industry ⓘ |
| legacy |
Lorillard Tobacco Company
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surface form:
contributed to making Lorillard one of the most prominent early U.S. tobacco companies
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| memberOf | Lorillard family ⓘ |
| name | Pierre Lorillard II self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
expanding the Lorillard family tobacco business
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helping establish one of the earliest major tobacco companies in the United States ⓘ |
| notableRole | early American tobacco magnate ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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tobacco manufacturer ⓘ |
| roleInCompany | builder of the Lorillard tobacco enterprise ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity |
commerce
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manufacturing ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century United States business history ⓘ |
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: Pierre Lorillard II Description of subject: Pierre Lorillard II was an American tobacco manufacturer and entrepreneur best known for building the Lorillard family business into one of the earliest and most prominent tobacco companies in the United States.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.