Beulah (radio and television series)

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Beulah is an American radio and television sitcom from the 1940s–50s, notable as one of the first series to feature a Black actress, Hattie McDaniel, in a leading role.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American radio sitcom
American television sitcom
basedOn Beulah character from the Fibber McGee and Molly radio series
broadcastIn United States of America
surface form: United States
character Beulah Brown
Bill Jackson
Donnie Jackson
Harry Henderson
Oriole
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalSignificance one of the first U.S. series with a Black woman star
distribution syndicated television prints
endYearTelevision 1953
format radio series
television series
genre sitcom
hasTitleCharacter Beulah Brown
leadCharacterEthnicity African American
mainCharacterOccupation housekeeper
mediaType radio
television
notableCastMember Amanda Randolph
Ethel Waters
Hattie McDaniel
Louise Beavers
notableFor early American situation comedy with African American title character
featuring a Black actress in a leading role
numberOfTelevisionSeasons 3
originalLanguage English
originalTelevisionNetwork ABC
portrayalCriticism use of racial stereotypes
productionCompany Kraft Foods
surface form: Kraft Foods (radio sponsor and producer)
radioDebutYear 1945
radioNetwork ABC
CBS
role Amanda Randolph played Beulah on television
Ethel Waters
surface form: Ethel Waters played Beulah on television

Hattie McDaniel
surface form: Hattie McDaniel played Beulah on radio

Louise Beavers
surface form: Louise Beavers played Beulah on television
setting home of the white Jackson family
spinOffFrom Fibber McGee and Molly
starred Amanda Randolph
Ethel Waters
Hattie McDaniel
Louise Beavers
targetAudience family audience
televisionDebutYear 1950
televisionProducer Roland Reed Productions
timePeriod 1940s
1950s

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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.

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- 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: Beulah (radio and television series)
Description of subject: Beulah is an American radio and television sitcom from the 1940s–50s, notable as one of the first series to feature a Black actress, Hattie McDaniel, in a leading role.

Referenced by (2)

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Hattie McDaniel notableWork Beulah (radio and television series)
Louise Beavers notableWork Beulah (radio and television series)
this entity surface form: Beulah (TV series)