Formation (music video)

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"Formation" (music video) is the politically charged visual accompaniment to Beyoncé's 2016 song, noted for its powerful imagery addressing Black identity, Southern culture, and police brutality.

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Label Occurrences
Formation (music video) canonical 3
Formation 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf music video
short film
addressesIssue police violence against Black people
post-Katrina neglect of Black communities
racial injustice in the United States
artist Beyoncé
associatedWithEvent Super Bowl 50 halftime show
basedOnSong Formation (song)
choreographyBy Chris Grant
JaQuel Knight
costumeDesignStyle Antebellum-inspired fashion
Southern Gothic aesthetics
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception widespread acclaim
describedAs culturally significant
politically charged
director Melina Matsoukas
featuresTheme Black Lives Matter movement
surface form: Black Lives Matter

Black identity
Black pride
Black womanhood
Creole heritage
Hurricane Katrina
Southern United States
surface form: Southern United States culture

police brutality
systemic racism
filmingLocation New Orleans
surface form: New Orleans, Louisiana
firstReleasedOn Tidal
genre contemporary R&B music video
hip hop music video
political music video
language English
notableScene Beyoncé sitting on a sinking New Orleans police car
graffiti reading “Stop Shooting Us”
young Black boy dancing in front of police officers
partOf Lemonade
surface form: Lemonade (visual album)
performer Beyoncé
premieredOneDayBefore Beyoncé's Super Bowl 50 halftime performance
productionCompany Parkwood Entertainment
receivedAward Grammy Award for Best Music Video
MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography
MTV VMA for Best Cinematography
surface form: MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography

MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction
MTV Video Music Award for Best Editing
MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video
MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year
releaseDate 2016-02-06
releaseYear 2016
setIn New Orleans
title Formation (music video) self-linksurface differs
surface form: Formation

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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: Formation (music video)
Description of subject: "Formation" (music video) is the politically charged visual accompaniment to Beyoncé's 2016 song, noted for its powerful imagery addressing Black identity, Southern culture, and police brutality.

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

Formation hasMusicVideo Formation (music video)
Formation (music video) title Formation (music video) self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Formation
Melina Matsoukas notableWork Formation (music video)
Melina Matsoukas directed Formation (music video)