Poor Richard's Almanack

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almanac book series

Poor Richard's Almanack is a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin in colonial America, famous for its witty aphorisms, practical advice, and wide influence on early American culture.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Poor Richard's Almanack canonical	10
Poor Richard’s Almanack	4
Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack	1
Benjamin Franklin’s almanac “Poor Richard’s Almanack”	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	almanac ⓘ book series ⓘ
author	Benjamin Franklin ⓘ
contains	agricultural advice ⓘ astronomical information ⓘ household tips ⓘ humorous essays ⓘ poems ⓘ puzzles ⓘ weather forecasts ⓘ
countryOfPublication	Thirteen Colonies ⓘ
createdBy	Benjamin Franklin ⓘ
finalPublicationYear	1758 ⓘ
firstPublicationYear	1732 ⓘ
genre	almanac ⓘ didactic literature ⓘ satire ⓘ
hasFamousSaying	A penny saved is a penny earned ⓘ Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship ⓘ Diligence is the mother of good luck ⓘ Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise ⓘ Fish and visitors stink in three days ⓘ God helps them that help themselves ⓘ Haste makes waste ⓘ He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas ⓘ Industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them ⓘ Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee ⓘ Little strokes fell great oaks ⓘ Lost time is never found again ⓘ Plough deep while sluggards sleep ⓘ There are no gains without pains ⓘ Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead ⓘ Tis hard for an empty sack to stand upright ⓘ Well done is better than well said ⓘ
influenced	American moral philosophy ⓘ American popular culture ⓘ American proverbs tradition ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
notableFor	influence on early American culture ⓘ moral maxims ⓘ practical advice ⓘ proverbs ⓘ witty aphorisms ⓘ
partOf	American Enlightenment literature ⓘ
placeOfPublication	Philadelphia ⓘ
pseudonymousAuthor	Poor Richard ⓘ Richard Saunders ⓘ
publicationFrequency	annual ⓘ
publisher	Benjamin Franklin ⓘ
timePeriod	colonial America ⓘ

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: Poor Richard's Almanack
Description of subject: Poor Richard's Almanack is a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin in colonial America, famous for its witty aphorisms, practical advice, and wide influence on early American culture.

Referenced by (16)

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

Benjamin Franklin → notableWork → Poor Richard's Almanack ⓘ

USS Bonhomme Richard → namedAfter → Poor Richard's Almanack ⓘ

this entity surface form: Poor Richard’s Almanack

Benjamin Franklin’s pen name "Poor Richard" → authorOf → Poor Richard's Almanack ⓘ

subject surface form: Poor Richard

this entity surface form: Poor Richard’s Almanack

Benjamin Franklin’s pen name "Poor Richard" → appearsIn → Poor Richard's Almanack ⓘ

subject surface form: Poor Richard

this entity surface form: Poor Richard’s Almanack

Poor Richard → notableWork → Poor Richard's Almanack ⓘ

Poor Richard → characterIn → Poor Richard's Almanack ⓘ

Poor Richard → fictionalUniverse → Poor Richard's Almanack ⓘ

Poor Richard → firstAppearanceIn → Poor Richard's Almanack ⓘ

Richard Saunders → narratorOf → Poor Richard's Almanack ⓘ

Richard Saunders → supposedAuthorOf → Poor Richard's Almanack ⓘ

Richard Saunders → notableWork → Poor Richard's Almanack ⓘ

Richard Saunders → usedIn → Poor Richard's Almanack ⓘ

Richard Saunders → firstAppearanceIn → Poor Richard's Almanack ⓘ

Poor Charlie’s Almanack → influencedBy → Poor Richard's Almanack ⓘ

this entity surface form: Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack

Poor Charlie’s Almanack → titleInspiredBy → Poor Richard's Almanack ⓘ

this entity surface form: Poor Richard’s Almanack

Bonhomme Richard → namedAfter → Poor Richard's Almanack ⓘ

this entity surface form: Benjamin Franklin’s almanac “Poor Richard’s Almanack”