Mary Catherine Bateson

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Mary Catherine Bateson was an American cultural anthropologist and writer known for her work on life history, gender, and learning, and for being the daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson.

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Label Occurrences
Mary Catherine Bateson canonical 4

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural anthropologist
human
writer
academicDegree Doctor of Philosophy
awardReceived Guggenheim Fellowship
causeOfDeath complications from a fall
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1939-12-08
dateOfDeath 2021-01-02
educatedAt Harvard University
Radcliffe College
employer Amherst College
George Mason University
International Women’s University
Spelman College
ethnicGroup American
familyName Bateson
father Gregory Bateson
fieldOfWork cultural anthropology
gender studies
learning and education
life history research
genre non-fiction
givenName Mary
hasInfluenced feminist scholarship on life narratives
interdisciplinary studies of learning across the lifespan
languageOfWorkOrName English
mother Margaret Mead
movement second-wave feminism
surface form: second-wave feminism (intellectual context)
name Mary Catherine Bateson self-link
notableFor popularizing anthropology for general audiences
work on gender and learning
work on life history
notableWork Composing a Life
Peripheral Visions
With a Daughter’s Eye
occupation anthropologist
writer
placeOfBirth New York City
placeOfDeath New Hampshire
positionHeld president of the Institute for Intercultural Studies
professor of anthropology
relative Gregory Bateson
Margaret Mead
residence Massachusetts
New Hampshire
sexOrGender female

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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: Mary Catherine Bateson
Description of subject: Mary Catherine Bateson was an American cultural anthropologist and writer known for her work on life history, gender, and learning, and for being the daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson.

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

Margaret Mead child Mary Catherine Bateson
Gregory Bateson child Mary Catherine Bateson
Bateson hasNotableBearer Mary Catherine Bateson
Mary Catherine Bateson name Mary Catherine Bateson self-link