Agostinho da Silva

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educator essayist human philosopher poet translator university teacher

Agostinho da Silva was a Portuguese philosopher, essayist, and educator known for his humanist thought, cultural activism, and influential role in 20th-century Portuguese and Brazilian intellectual life.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Agostinho da Silva canonical	2

Statements (62)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	educator ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ poet ⓘ translator ⓘ university teacher ⓘ
birthName	George Agostinho Baptista da Silva ⓘ
burialPlace	Prazeres Cemetery ⓘ
citizenship	Portugal ⓘ
countryOfBirth	Portugal ⓘ
countryOfDeath	Portugal ⓘ
countryOfResidence	Brazil ⓘ Portugal ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1906-02-13 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1994-04-03 ⓘ
educatedAt	University of Lisbon ⓘ University of Porto ⓘ
emigratedTo	Brazil ⓘ
familyName	da Silva ⓘ
fieldOfWork	cultural studies ⓘ education ⓘ literature ⓘ philosophy ⓘ
genre	essay ⓘ philosophical prose ⓘ
givenName	Augustin ⓘ surface form: Agostinho George ⓘ
hasWork	Considerações ⓘ Diálogos de Vária História ⓘ Reflexão à Margem da Literatura Portuguesa do Século XX ⓘ Sete Cartas a um Jovem Filósofo ⓘ
ideology	Christian humanism ⓘ
influenced	Brazilian intellectual life in the 20th century ⓘ Portuguese intellectual life in the 20th century ⓘ
knownFor	television interviews and conversations in Portugal ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	Portuguese ⓘ
movement	Lusophone culturalism ⓘ humanism ⓘ
name	Agostinho da Silva self-link ⓘ
nativeLanguage	Portuguese ⓘ
notableFor	cultural activism ⓘ humanist thought ⓘ influence on 20th-century Brazilian intellectual life ⓘ influence on 20th-century Portuguese intellectual life ⓘ
notableIdea	Lusophone community as a cultural and spiritual project ⓘ defense of individual freedom ⓘ emphasis on spiritual and cultural development over material progress ⓘ
occupation	educator ⓘ essayist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ poet ⓘ translator ⓘ university professor ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Porto ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Lisbon ⓘ
religion	Roman Catholicism ⓘ surface form: Catholicism
taughtAt	Federal University of Paraíba ⓘ Federal University of Santa Catarina ⓘ University of Lisbon ⓘ
workedAs	teacher in secondary education ⓘ university lecturer ⓘ

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.

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Subject: Agostinho da Silva
Description of subject: Agostinho da Silva was a Portuguese philosopher, essayist, and educator known for his humanist thought, cultural activism, and influential role in 20th-century Portuguese and Brazilian intellectual life.

Referenced by (2)

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

University of Coimbra → hasNotableAlumni → Agostinho da Silva ⓘ

Agostinho da Silva → name → Agostinho da Silva self-link ⓘ