Ballet Society

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Ballet Society was a mid-20th-century American ballet organization founded by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein that served as a precursor to the New York City Ballet.

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Label Occurrences
Ballet Society canonical 3

Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ballet company
performing arts organization
basedIn New York City
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dissolvedOrAbolished 1948
field ballet
dance
foundedAs subscription-only performance organization
foundedBy George Balanchine
Lincoln Kirstein
genre ballet
hasFounder George Balanchine
Lincoln Kirstein
hasPurpose to develop a permanent American ballet company
to present new ballets by George Balanchine
hasType subscription-based ballet company
inception 1946
languageOfWorkOrName English
location New York City
notableMember George Balanchine
Lincoln Kirstein
notableWork early repertory that evolved into New York City Ballet repertoire
operatedIn mid-20th century
partOf American ballet history
predecessorOf New York City Ballet
presentedAt City Center of Music and Drama
New York City Center
servedAs precursor to the New York City Ballet
successor New York City Ballet

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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.

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- 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: Ballet Society
Description of subject: Ballet Society was a mid-20th-century American ballet organization founded by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein that served as a precursor to the New York City Ballet.

Referenced by (3)

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

American Ballet Caravan influenced Ballet Society
New York City Ballet formerName Ballet Society
New York City Ballet follows Ballet Society