The Coming of Columbus

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The Coming of Columbus is a silent-era American film dramatizing Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the New World, produced by the early motion picture studio Selig Polyscope Company.

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Label Occurrences
The Coming of Columbus canonical 1

Statements (19)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American film
drama film
silent film
basedOn voyages of Christopher Columbus to the Americas
surface form: voyages of Christopher Columbus
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depictsEvent Columbus’s first voyage to the Americas
depictsPeriod Age of Exploration
surface form: Age of Discovery
era silent era
filmFormat black-and-white
hasGenre drama
historical drama
industry early American cinema
language Silent
mainSubject Christopher Columbus
voyage to the New World
medium motion picture
portrays Christopher Columbus
European exploration of the Americas
productionCompany Selig Polyscope Company

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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: The Coming of Columbus
Description of subject: The Coming of Columbus is a silent-era American film dramatizing Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the New World, produced by the early motion picture studio Selig Polyscope Company.

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Selig Polyscope Company hasFilm The Coming of Columbus