Canton, Massachusetts, United States

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Canton, Massachusetts, United States is a suburban town south of Boston known as the birthplace of comedian Bill Burr and home to several major corporate headquarters.

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Label Occurrences
Canton, Massachusetts, United States canonical 2

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf town
areaCode 339
781
birthplaceOf Bill Burr
Paul Reiser
borderedBy Dedham, Massachusetts NERFINISHED
Milton, Massachusetts NERFINISHED
Norwood, Massachusetts NERFINISHED
Randolph, Massachusetts NERFINISHED
Sharon, Massachusetts NERFINISHED
Stoughton, Massachusetts NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
county Norfolk County
governmentType town government
hasEducationalInstitution Blue Hills Regional Technical School
Canton High School
hasHighway Interstate 93
Interstate 95
Massachusetts Route 138 NERFINISHED
Massachusetts Route 24
surface form: Massachusetts Route 24 (nearby access)

Massachusetts Route 27 NERFINISHED
U.S. Route 1
hasHistoricStructure Canton Corner Historic District
David Tilden House
Elihu Burritt Library
surface form: Elihu Burritt Library (historic)
hasLandmark Blue Hills Reservation
Canton Viaduct
Massachusetts Audubon’s Visual Arts Center
hasPark Ponkapaog Pond
hasRiver Neponset River NERFINISHED
headquartersLocationOf Boston Mutual Life Insurance Company
Dunkin'
surface form: Dunkin’ Brands

LoJack Corporation
Organogenesis
Reebok
surface form: Reebok (former U.S. headquarters)
locatedIn Greater Boston
locatedSouthOf Boston
namedAfter Canton, China
partOf New England
United States of America
surface form: United States
postalCode 02021
railLine MBTA Commuter Rail Franklin Line
MBTA Commuter Rail Providence/Stoughton Line
servedBy Canton Center station
Canton Junction station
state Massachusetts
timeZone Eastern Time Zone

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: Canton, Massachusetts, United States
Description of subject: Canton, Massachusetts, United States is a suburban town south of Boston known as the birthplace of comedian Bill Burr and home to several major corporate headquarters.

Referenced by (2)

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

Bill Burr placeOfBirth Canton, Massachusetts, United States
William Frederic Burr birthPlace Canton, Massachusetts, United States