Berthold Lindau

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Civil War veteran Fictional character German immigrant Literary character Radical Socialist

Berthold Lindau is a radical, idealistic German immigrant and Civil War veteran in William Dean Howells’s novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," known for his outspoken socialist views and moral fervor.

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Label Occurrences
Berthold Lindau canonical 1

Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Civil War veteran ⓘ
Fictional character ⓘ
German immigrant ⓘ
Literary character ⓘ
Radical ⓘ
Socialist ⓘ
appearsInWork A Hazard of New Fortunes ⓘ
characterInNovelBy William Dean Howells ⓘ
characterTrait Idealistic ⓘ
Morally fervent ⓘ
Outspoken ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Germany ⓘ
createdBy William Dean Howells ⓘ
fictionalUniverse A Hazard of New Fortunes universe ⓘ
firstPublicationContext A Hazard of New Fortunes ⓘ
surface form: A Hazard of New Fortunes (serialized 1889–1890)
hasFamilyName Lindau ⓘ
hasGivenName Berthold ⓘ
ideology Socialism ⓘ
languageSpoken English ⓘ
German ⓘ
literaryPeriod Realism ⓘ
surface form: American realism
militaryConflictParticipatedIn American Civil War ⓘ
nationality German ⓘ
occupation Civil War soldier ⓘ
politicalOrientation Radical left ⓘ
roleInWork Moral conscience figure ⓘ
Political foil to bourgeois characters ⓘ
settingAssociatedWith New York City ⓘ
workOfFictionGenre Realist novel ⓘ

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: Berthold Lindau
Description of subject: Berthold Lindau is a radical, idealistic German immigrant and Civil War veteran in William Dean Howells’s novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," known for his outspoken socialist views and moral fervor.

Referenced by (1)

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

A Hazard of New Fortunes → character → Berthold Lindau ⓘ