William Cooper

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William Cooper was an American land developer and judge best known as the founder of Cooperstown, New York, and the patriarch of the Cooper family that included novelist James Fenimore Cooper.

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Label Occurrences
William Cooper canonical 1

Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf founder of Cooperstown
human
judge
land developer
associatedWith Cooper family
James Fenimore Cooper
Otsego County land speculation
child James Fenimore Cooper
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
ethnicGroup English American
familyName Cooper
fatherOf James Fenimore Cooper
founded Cooperstown, New York
gender male
givenName William
hasHeritage American colonial-era settler
knownFor founding Cooperstown, New York
languageSpoken English
memberOf United States House of Representatives
notableEvent development of lands in Otsego County, New York
notableRelative James Fenimore Cooper
notableWork founding of Cooperstown, New York
occupation judge
land developer
politician
partOf early American frontier land development
patriarchOf Cooper family
placeFounded Cooperstown, New York
placeOfBurial Cooperstown, New York
positionHeld U.S. Representative from New York
judge in Otsego County, New York
regionOfActivity Northeastern United States
Upstate New York (broad sense)
surface form: Upstate New York
residence Cooperstown, New York
New York
surface form: New York State

Otsego County, New York NERFINISHED
workLocation Cooperstown, New York
New York
surface form: New York State

Otsego County, New York NERFINISHED

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: William Cooper
Description of subject: William Cooper was an American land developer and judge best known as the founder of Cooperstown, New York, and the patriarch of the Cooper family that included novelist James Fenimore Cooper.

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James Fenimore Cooper father William Cooper