William Samuel Johnson

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Founding Father of the United States human lawyer politician statesman

William Samuel Johnson was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and statesman who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as a U.S. senator from Connecticut.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
William Samuel Johnson canonical	3

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Founding Father of the United States ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ statesman ⓘ
academicDegree	Master of Arts ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Great Britain ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1727-10-07 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1819-11-14 ⓘ
educatedAt	Yale College ⓘ Yale University ⓘ
endTime	presidency of Columbia College ended 1800 ⓘ term in United States Senate ended 1791 ⓘ
familyName	Johnson ⓘ
father	Samuel Johnson ⓘ surface form: Samuel Johnson (clergyman and educator)
givenName	William ⓘ
memberOf	Connecticut General Assembly ⓘ Constitutional Convention ⓘ Continental Congress ⓘ United States Senate ⓘ
mother	Charity Floyd ⓘ
nativeLanguage	English ⓘ
notableWork	participation in drafting and signing the United States Constitution ⓘ
occupation	diplomat ⓘ judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ
participatedIn	Constitutional Convention ⓘ surface form: Constitutional Convention of 1787 Continental Congress ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Stratford, Connecticut ⓘ surface form: Stratford, Connecticut Colony
placeOfDeath	Stratford, Connecticut ⓘ surface form: Stratford, Connecticut, United States
positionHeld	President of Columbia College ⓘ United States senator ⓘ delegate to the Constitutional Convention ⓘ delegate to the Continental Congress ⓘ
religion	Anglicanism ⓘ
represented	Connecticut ⓘ Connecticut at the Constitutional Convention ⓘ Connecticut in the United States Senate ⓘ
residence	New York City ⓘ Stratford, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
signatoryTo	United States Constitution ⓘ
spouse	Ann Beach ⓘ Mary Brewster ⓘ
startTime	presidency of Columbia College began 1787 ⓘ term in United States Senate began 1789 ⓘ

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 Samuel Johnson
Description of subject: William Samuel Johnson was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and statesman who signed the U.S. Constitution and later served as a U.S. senator from Connecticut.

Referenced by (3)

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

Committee on Style → member → William Samuel Johnson ⓘ

Committee on Style → chairperson → William Samuel Johnson ⓘ

Stamp Act Congress → keyDelegate → William Samuel Johnson ⓘ