Marie-Cessette Dumas

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Marie-Cessette Dumas was an enslaved Afro-Caribbean woman in the French colony of Saint-Domingue and the grandmother of the famed French novelist Alexandre Dumas.

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Label Occurrences
Marie-Cessette Dumas canonical 4

Statements (34)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afro-Caribbean person
enslaved person
human
associatedWith French colony of Saint-Domingue
surface form: French colonial Saint-Domingue

history of slavery in the Caribbean
colonyOfResidence French colony of Saint-Domingue
continent North America
countryOfCitizenship France
enslavedBy Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie
surface form: Marquis Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie
enslavedIn French colony of Saint-Domingue
surface form: Saint-Domingue
ethnicGroup African descent
grandmotherOf Alexandre Dumas
hasDescendant Alexandre Dumas
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
historicalContext French colonial slavery in Saint-Domingue
transatlantic slave trade
knownFor being the grandmother of novelist Alexandre Dumas
being the mother of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
languageOfEnvironment French
legalStatus chattel slave
motherOf Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
name Marie-Cessette Dumas self-link
notableRelative Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
surface form: Alexandre Dumas

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
occupation enslaved domestic worker
partOf Afro-Caribbean history
French colonial history
placeOfResidence French colony of Saint-Domingue
region Caribbean
religion Christianity
surface form: Christianity (uncertain)
residence French colony of Saint-Domingue
surface form: Saint-Domingue
sexOrGender female
socialStatus enslaved
timePeriod 18th century

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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
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- 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: Marie-Cessette Dumas
Description of subject: Marie-Cessette Dumas was an enslaved Afro-Caribbean woman in the French colony of Saint-Domingue and the grandmother of the famed French novelist Alexandre Dumas.

Referenced by (4)

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

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas mother Marie-Cessette Dumas
Thomas-Alexandre mother Marie-Cessette Dumas
subject surface form: Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
Marie-Cessette Dumas name Marie-Cessette Dumas self-link
Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie spouse Marie-Cessette Dumas