The Club

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The Club was an 18th-century London dining society of prominent intellectuals and artists, co-founded by Samuel Johnson and Joshua Reynolds, that became a leading forum for literary and political conversation.

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Label Occurrences
The Club canonical 3

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf 18th-century London dining society
gentlemen's club
literary society
social club
alsoKnownAs The Literary Club
associatedWith Age of Enlightenment
Joshua Reynolds
Samuel Johnson
coFoundedBy Joshua Reynolds
Samuel Johnson
country Kingdom of Great Britain
fieldOfWork art
literature
philosophy
politics
foundedInPeriod 18th century
hasGenre dining club
hasMember Adam Smith
Bennet Langton
Charles James Fox
David Garrick
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
surface form: Edward Burke

Edward Gibbon
James Boswell
Joshua Reynolds
Oliver Goldsmith
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Samuel Johnson
Joseph Banks
surface form: Sir Joseph Banks

William Jones (philologist)
surface form: Sir William Jones

Topham Beauclerk
historicalPeriod Age of Enlightenment
surface form: Enlightenment

Georgian era
inception 1764
languageOfWorkOrName English
location London, England
surface form: London
meetingPlace Gerrard Street
Turk's Head Tavern
membershipPolicy by invitation only
notableFor bringing together leading writers, artists, and politicians of 18th-century Britain
influence on literary culture in London
role in political discussion in late 18th-century Britain
purpose dining
literary conversation
political conversation
social networking among intellectuals

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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.

# 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.
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Subject: The Club
Description of subject: The Club was an 18th-century London dining society of prominent intellectuals and artists, co-founded by Samuel Johnson and Joshua Reynolds, that became a leading forum for literary and political conversation.

Referenced by (3)

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Samuel Johnson memberOf The Club
Der Club meaning The Club
The Club name The Club