Aimé Césaire

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Aimé Césaire was a Martinican poet, playwright, and politician best known as a founding figure of the Négritude movement and a major voice of anti-colonial thought in the Francophone world.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Aimé Césaire canonical 9
Aimé Fernand David Césaire 1
Césaire 1

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf French-language writer
anti-colonial intellectual
essayist
human
playwright
poet
politician
birthDate 1913-06-26
birthPlace Basse-Pointe, Martinique
causeOfDeath respiratory failure
coFoundedWith Léon-Gontran Damas
Léopold Sédar Senghor
countryOfCitizenship France
deathDate 2008-04-17
deathPlace Fort-de-France, Martinique
educatedAt Lycée Louis-le-Grand
École normale supérieure de Fontenay–Saint-Cloud
surface form: École normale supérieure
ethnicGroup Afro-Caribbean people
surface form: Afro-Caribbean
familyName Aimé Césaire self-linksurface differs
surface form: Césaire
fieldOfWork literature
political thought
postcolonial theory
founded Martinican Progressive Party
Negritude
surface form: Négritude movement
fullName Aimé Césaire self-linksurface differs
surface form: Aimé Fernand David Césaire
genre drama
essay
poetry
givenName Aimé
influenced Caribbean literature
Frantz Fanon
postcolonial studies
languageOfWorkOrName French
memberOf Communist Party of France
surface form: French Communist Party

Martinican Progressive Party
movement Negritude
surface form: Négritude

Surrealism
anti-colonialism
name Aimé Césaire self-link
notableWork Cahier d'un retour au pays natal
surface form: Cahier d’un retour au pays natal

Discours sur le colonialisme
Et les chiens se taisaient
La Tragédie du roi Christophe
Une saison au Congo
occupation playwright
poet
politician
teacher
positionHeld Deputy in the French National Assembly
Mayor of Fort-de-France
termEndAsMayorOfFortDeFrance 2001
termStartAsMayorOfFortDeFrance 1945

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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: Aimé Césaire
Description of subject: Aimé Césaire was a Martinican poet, playwright, and politician best known as a founding figure of the Négritude movement and a major voice of anti-colonial thought in the Francophone world.

Referenced by (11)

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

Afro-Martiniquais notableFigure Aimé Césaire
Frantz Fanon influencedBy Aimé Césaire
Surrealist Group in Paris hasMember Aimé Césaire
Negritude hasFounder Aimé Césaire
Negritude associatedWithPerson Aimé Césaire
Aimé Césaire name Aimé Césaire self-link
Aimé Césaire fullName Aimé Césaire self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Aimé Fernand David Césaire
Aimé Césaire familyName Aimé Césaire self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Césaire
Édouard Glissant influencedBy Aimé Césaire
Léopold Sédar Senghor influencedBy Aimé Césaire