James Claude Wright Jr.

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James Claude Wright Jr. was an American Democratic politician who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1987 to 1989.

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Label Occurrences
James Claude Wright Jr. canonical 1

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
human
member of the United States House of Representatives
politician
awardReceived Air Medal
Distinguished Flying Cross
causeOfDeath complications from a fall
causeOfResignation ethics scandal
conflict World War II
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1922-12-22
dateOfDeath 2015-05-06
educatedAt Texas Christian University
Weatherford College
ethnicGroup White American
familyName Wright
givenName James
honorificPrefix The Honorable
memberOfPoliticalParty Democratic Party
middleName Claude
militaryBranch United States Army Air Forces
militaryRank staff sergeant
nativeLanguage English
notableWork Balance of Power
The Coming Water Famine
numberOfChildren 3
occupation author
politician
officeEndTime 1989-06-06
officeStartTime 1987-01-06
placeOfBirth Fort Worth, Texas
surface form: Fort Worth, Texas, United States
placeOfDeath Fort Worth, Texas
surface form: Fort Worth, Texas, United States
politicalParty Democratic Party
positionHeld House Majority Leader
surface form: Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
U.S. Representative
surface form: United States representative

member of the Texas House of Representatives
religion Baptist
religiousDenomination Southern Baptist Convention
surface form: Southern Baptist
representedDistrict Texas's 12th congressional district
residence Fort Worth, Texas
surface form: Fort Worth, Texas, United States
sexOrGender male
spouse Betty Wright
Mabel Dixon Jensen
stateRepresented Texas

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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: James Claude Wright Jr.
Description of subject: James Claude Wright Jr. was an American Democratic politician who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1987 to 1989.

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

Jim Wright birthName James Claude Wright Jr.