Harvey Cushing

E300594

human medical researcher neurosurgeon physician

Harvey Cushing was a pioneering American neurosurgeon often regarded as the father of modern neurosurgery, known for his groundbreaking work on brain surgery and intracranial pressure.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Harvey Cushing canonical	6
Harvey Williams Cushing	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ medical researcher ⓘ neurosurgeon ⓘ physician ⓘ
awardReceived	Distinguished Service Medal (United States) ⓘ Lasker Award ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography ⓘ
burialPlace	Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, United States ⓘ
causeOfDeath	myocardial infarction ⓘ
conflict	World War I ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1869-04-08 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1939-10-07 ⓘ
educatedAt	Harvard Medical School ⓘ Yale University ⓘ
employer	Harvard University ⓘ Johns Hopkins Hospital ⓘ Peter Bent Brigham Hospital ⓘ Yale University ⓘ
familyName	Cushing ⓘ
fieldOfWork	endocrinology ⓘ neurology ⓘ neurosurgery ⓘ
givenName	Harvey ⓘ
influenced	modern neurosurgical practice ⓘ
influencedBy	William Osler ⓘ
knownFor	Cushing's disease ⓘ Cushing's disease ⓘ surface form: Cushing's syndrome founding modern neurosurgery ⓘ pioneering brain tumor surgery ⓘ reducing mortality in brain surgery ⓘ research on intracranial pressure ⓘ
memberOf	American College of Surgeons ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ surface form: National Academy of Sciences (United States) Royal Society ⓘ surface form: Royal Society of London
militaryBranch	Army Medical Department ⓘ surface form: United States Army Medical Corps
notableAchievement	described clinical features of pituitary basophilism ⓘ developed methods to control surgical bleeding in brain operations ⓘ improved techniques for localization of brain tumors ⓘ
notableWork	Life of Sir William Osler ⓘ The Pituitary Body and Its Disorders ⓘ
occupation	surgeon ⓘ university teacher ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Cleveland, Ohio, United States ⓘ
placeOfDeath	New Haven, Connecticut ⓘ surface form: New Haven, Connecticut, United States
positionHeld	professor of neurology at Yale University ⓘ professor of surgery at Harvard University ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ

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: Harvey Cushing
Description of subject: Harvey Cushing was a pioneering American neurosurgeon often regarded as the father of modern neurosurgery, known for his groundbreaking work on brain surgery and intracranial pressure.

Referenced by (7)

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

Yale School of Medicine → hasNotableAlumni → Harvey Cushing ⓘ

Betsey Cushing Roosevelt → father → Harvey Cushing ⓘ

Harvey → hasNotableBearer → Harvey Cushing ⓘ

this entity surface form: Harvey Williams Cushing

Babe Paley → father → Harvey Cushing ⓘ

Cushing family → hasNotableMember → Harvey Cushing ⓘ

Barbara Cushing Mortimer → hasRelative → Harvey Cushing ⓘ