Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994)

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President of Sri Lanka Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Sri Lankan politician human

Chandrika Kumaratunga is a Sri Lankan politician who briefly served as Prime Minister in 1994 before becoming the country’s executive President and one of its most prominent contemporary leaders.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Chandrika Kumaratunga	3
Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994) canonical	1
Sri Lanka (as Prime Minister in 1994)	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	President of Sri Lanka ⓘ Prime Minister of Sri Lanka ⓘ Sri Lankan politician ⓘ human ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Sri Lanka ⓘ
educatedAt	Sciences Po ⓘ St. Bridget’s Convent, Colombo ⓘ surface form: St Bridget’s Convent, Colombo Sorbonne University ⓘ surface form: University of Paris
familyName	Bandaranaike Kumaratunga ⓘ
father	S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike ⓘ
givenName	Chandrika Tandon ⓘ surface form: Chandrika
headOfGovernment	Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Sri Lanka (as Prime Minister in 1994)
headOfState	President of Sri Lanka ⓘ surface form: Sri Lanka (as President from 1994 to 2005)
memberOfPoliticalParty	People’s Alliance (Sri Lanka) ⓘ Sri Lanka Freedom Party ⓘ United People’s Freedom Alliance ⓘ
mother	Sirimavo Bandaranaike ⓘ
notableFor	being the first female executive President of Sri Lanka ⓘ initiating peace talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ⓘ leading the People’s Alliance to victory in the 1994 Sri Lankan parliamentary election ⓘ surviving an assassination attempt in 1999 ⓘ
officeEndTime	1994-11-12 (Prime Minister of Sri Lanka) ⓘ 2005-11-19 (President of Sri Lanka) ⓘ
officeStartTime	1994-08-19 (Prime Minister of Sri Lanka) ⓘ 1994-11-12 (President of Sri Lanka) ⓘ
positionHeld	Chief Minister of Western Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ Leader of the Opposition (Ceylon) ⓘ surface form: Leader of the Opposition of Sri Lanka Minister of Buddhist Affairs of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Defence and Finance of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Defence of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Education of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Housing of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Information of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Information of Sri Lanka ⓘ surface form: Minister of Mass Media of Sri Lanka Minister of Plan Implementation of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Religious Affairs of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Women’s Affairs of Sri Lanka ⓘ Minister of Youth Affairs of Sri Lanka ⓘ President of Sri Lanka ⓘ Prime Minister of Ceylon ⓘ surface form: Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
precededBy	President of Sri Lanka ⓘ surface form: Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (as President of Sri Lanka) Ranil Wickremesinghe (as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1994) ⓘ
primeMinisterDuringPresidency	Mahinda Rajapaksa ⓘ Ranil Wickremesinghe ⓘ Ratnasiri Wickremanayake ⓘ Sirimavo Bandaranaike ⓘ
sexOrGender	female ⓘ
spouse	Vijaya Kumaratunga ⓘ
succeededBy	Mahinda Rajapaksa ⓘ surface form: Mahinda Rajapaksa (as President of Sri Lanka) Sirimavo Bandaranaike ⓘ surface form: Sirimavo Bandaranaike (as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1994)

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: Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994)
Description of subject: Chandrika Kumaratunga is a Sri Lankan politician who briefly served as Prime Minister in 1994 before becoming the country’s executive President and one of its most prominent contemporary leaders.

Referenced by (5)

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

S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike → child → Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994) ⓘ

this entity surface form: Chandrika Kumaratunga

Sirimavo Bandaranaike → child → Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994) ⓘ

this entity surface form: Chandrika Kumaratunga

Sirimavo Bandaranaike → precededBy → Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994) ⓘ

Sri Lankan Civil War → governmentLeader → Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994) ⓘ

this entity surface form: Chandrika Kumaratunga

Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994) → headOfGovernment → Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994) self-linksurface differs ⓘ

subject surface form: Chandrika Kumaratunga

this entity surface form: Sri Lanka (as Prime Minister in 1994)