Lewis Hine

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documentary photographer human photographer social reformer sociologist

Lewis Hine was an American sociologist and pioneering documentary photographer whose powerful images of child labor and working conditions helped drive social reform in the early 20th century.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Lewis Hine canonical	2
Lewis Wickes Hine	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	documentary photographer ⓘ human ⓘ photographer ⓘ social reformer ⓘ sociologist ⓘ
activeYearsEnd	1940 ⓘ
activeYearsStart	1900 ⓘ
advocatedFor	child labor reform ⓘ social justice ⓘ workers' rights ⓘ
burialPlace	Oshkosh, Wisconsin ⓘ surface form: Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States
causeOfDeath	complications from surgery ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1874-09-26 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1940-11-03 ⓘ
educatedAt	Columbia University ⓘ New York University ⓘ University of Chicago ⓘ
employer	National Child Labor Committee ⓘ
ethnicGroup	European American ⓘ
familyName	Hine ⓘ
fieldOfWork	documentary photography ⓘ social documentary ⓘ social reform ⓘ
fullName	Lewis Hine self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Lewis Wickes Hine
genre	social documentary photography ⓘ
givenName	Lewis ⓘ
influenced	documentary photography ⓘ photojournalism ⓘ
knownFor	documenting working conditions in the early 20th century ⓘ photographs of child labor in the United States ⓘ use of photography as a tool for social reform ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
memberOf	National Child Labor Committee ⓘ
movement	Progressive Era reform ⓘ
notableWork	Construction photographs of the Empire State Building ⓘ Photographic series on child labor for the National Child Labor Committee ⓘ Photographs of Ellis Island immigrants ⓘ
occupation	photographer ⓘ sociologist ⓘ teacher ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Oshkosh, Wisconsin ⓘ surface form: Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States
placeOfDeath	Dobbs Ferry, New York ⓘ surface form: Dobbs Ferry, New York, United States
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
taughtAt	Ethical Culture Fieldston School ⓘ surface form: Ethical Culture School, New York
usedMedium	black-and-white photography ⓘ
workLocation	New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States

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: Lewis Hine
Description of subject: Lewis Hine was an American sociologist and pioneering documentary photographer whose powerful images of child labor and working conditions helped drive social reform in the early 20th century.

Referenced by (3)

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

Dorothea Lange → influencedBy → Lewis Hine ⓘ

Lewis Hine → fullName → Lewis Hine self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lewis Wickes Hine

National Child Labor Committee → employed → Lewis Hine ⓘ