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.

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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

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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.

Morton Arboretum founder Joy Morton
Morton Arboretum namedAfter Joy Morton
Morton family notableMember Joy Morton
J. Sterling Morton child Joy Morton