First Vision

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foundational event in Latter-day Saint history religious vision

The First Vision is the foundational event in Latter-day Saint history in which Joseph Smith reported seeing God the Father and Jesus Christ, leading to the establishment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
First Vision canonical	4
Joseph Smith’s First Vision	1

Statements (43)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	foundational event in Latter-day Saint history ⓘ religious vision ⓘ
approximateYear	1820 ⓘ
associatedPlace	Sacred Grove historic site ⓘ
canonizedAccount	Doctrine and Covenants ⓘ surface form: Joseph Smith—History 1:5–26
centralTo	Latter-day Saint conversion narratives ⓘ missionary teaching of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ⓘ
commemoratedBy	annual events of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ⓘ
commemoratedIn	Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints general conference ⓘ surface form: Latter-day Saint General Conference talks
controversy	debates over historical reliability among scholars and critics ⓘ differences among multiple historical accounts ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
date	spring 1820 ⓘ
depictedIn	Latter-day Saint artwork ⓘ Latter-day Saint films ⓘ
followedBy	revelations leading to the coming forth of the Book of Mormon ⓘ visitation of the angel Moroni (according to Latter-day Saint belief) ⓘ
hasCommemorativeStructure	monuments in the Sacred Grove area ⓘ
languageOfEarliestAccount	English ⓘ
location	Sacred Grove ⓘ near Palmyra, New York ⓘ
messageContent	Joseph Smith was told not to join any existing church (according to Joseph Smith’s later accounts) ⓘ existing churches were in a state of apostasy (according to Joseph Smith’s later accounts) ⓘ
primarySource	Pearl of Great Price ⓘ surface form: Joseph Smith—History in the Pearl of Great Price Joseph Smith’s 1832 account ⓘ Joseph Smith’s 1835 account ⓘ Joseph Smith’s 1838 account ⓘ Joseph Smith’s 1842 Wentworth letter account ⓘ
promptedBy	Joseph Smith’s prayer for guidance about which church to join ⓘ
recognizedAs	first major revelatory event of the Restoration ⓘ
recognizedBy	Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ⓘ
relatedDoctrine	Restoration of the gospel ⓘ nature of the Godhead in Latter-day Saint theology ⓘ prophetic calling of Joseph Smith ⓘ
religiousTradition	Latter-day Saint movement churches ⓘ surface form: Latter-day Saint movement
reportedBy	Joseph Smith ⓘ
resultedIn	founding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ⓘ
subjectOf	Latter-day Saint hymn “Oh, How Lovely Was the Morning” (also known as “Joseph Smith’s First Prayer”) ⓘ
theologicalSignificance	affirms separate personhood of God the Father and Jesus Christ in Latter-day Saint doctrine ⓘ marks the beginning of the Restoration in Latter-day Saint belief ⓘ used to support belief in modern revelation ⓘ
visionOf	the Father ⓘ surface form: God the Father Jesus Christ ⓘ

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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
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- 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: First Vision
Description of subject: The First Vision is the foundational event in Latter-day Saint history in which Joseph Smith reported seeing God the Father and Jesus Christ, leading to the establishment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Referenced by (5)

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

Joseph Smith → vision → First Vision ⓘ

Pearl of Great Price → includesAccountOf → First Vision ⓘ

Wentworth Letter → mentions → First Vision ⓘ

annual Hill Cumorah Pageant (historical) → depicts → First Vision ⓘ

subject surface form: annual Hill Cumorah Pageant

this entity surface form: Joseph Smith’s First Vision

Palmyra New York Temple → isNearSiteOf → First Vision ⓘ