Joy Morton
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Joy Morton was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder of the Morton Salt Company and a major advocate for tree conservation and public arboreta.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joy Morton canonical | 5 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
businessperson ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1855-09-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1934-05-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | public schools in Nebraska City ⓘ |
| employer | Morton Salt Company ⓘ |
| familyName | Morton ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
conservation
ⓘ
horticulture ⓘ salt industry ⓘ |
| founded |
Morton Arboretum
ⓘ
Morton Salt Company ⓘ |
| givenName | Joy ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | American of New England descent ⓘ |
| knownForQuote | “Plant trees” (as a guiding principle in conservation work) ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Commercial Club of Chicago
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago Association of Commerce
Chicago Commercial Club ⓘ |
| notableFor |
development of public arboreta
ⓘ
founding Morton Arboretum ⓘ founding Morton Salt Company ⓘ tree conservation advocacy ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
industrialist ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| parent |
Caroline Joy French Morton
ⓘ
J. Sterling Morton ⓘ
surface form:
Julius Sterling Morton
|
| philanthropyFocus |
arboreta
ⓘ
environmental conservation ⓘ public gardens ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Detroit
ⓘ
Michigan ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Illinois
ⓘ
Lake Forest, Illinois ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Forest
United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of Morton Salt Company ⓘ |
| religion | Episcopalian ⓘ |
| residence |
Chicago
ⓘ
Illinois ⓘ Nebraska City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Mark Morton ⓘ |
| spouse |
Carrie Lake
ⓘ
Margaret Gray ⓘ |
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: Joy Morton Description of subject: Joy Morton was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder of the Morton Salt Company and a major advocate for tree conservation and public arboreta.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.