Stephen Hillenburg

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Stephen Hillenburg was an American marine biologist, animator, and filmmaker best known for creating the hit animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants.

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Label Occurrences
Stephen Hillenburg canonical 18
Stephen McDannell Hillenburg 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American citizen
animator
film director
human
marine biologist
screenwriter
television producer
activeYearsEnd 2018
activeYearsStart 1980s
awardReceived Annie Award
Primetime Emmy Awards
surface form: Primetime Emmy Award
burialPlace Pacific Ocean (ashes scattered)
causeOfDeath amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
created SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants
surface form: SpongeBob SquarePants franchise
dateOfBirth 1961-08-21
dateOfDeath 2018-11-26
diagnosedWith amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
educatedAt California Institute of the Arts
Humboldt State University
employer Nickelodeon
familyName Hillenburg
fieldOfStudy animation
marine biology
fullName Stephen Hillenburg self-linksurface differs
surface form: Stephen McDannell Hillenburg
genre animated television
givenName Stephen
hasChild Clay Hillenburg
influenced modern American animation
knownFor SpongeBob SquarePants
languageOfWorkOrName English
nationality American
notableWork SpongeBob SquarePants
occupation animator
film director
marine biologist
screenwriter
television producer
voice actor
placeOfBirth Lawton, Oklahoma, United States ONNED1
placeOfDeath San Marino, California
surface form: San Marino, California, United States
religion Christianity
spouse Karen Hillenburg
workedOn Rocko's Modern Life
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
surface form: SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

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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.

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- 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: Stephen Hillenburg
Description of subject: Stephen Hillenburg was an American marine biologist, animator, and filmmaker best known for creating the hit animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants.

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SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg
Krusty Krab 2 creator Stephen Hillenburg
Stephen Hillenburg fullName Stephen Hillenburg self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Stephen McDannell Hillenburg
Bikini Bottom creator Stephen Hillenburg
Patrick Star creator Stephen Hillenburg
Squidward Tentacles creator Stephen Hillenburg
Mr. Krabs createdBy Stephen Hillenburg
Sandy Cheeks createdBy Stephen Hillenburg
Plankton creator Stephen Hillenburg
Gary the Snail creator Stephen Hillenburg
Krusty Krab creator Stephen Hillenburg
Chum Bucket creator Stephen Hillenburg
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie director Stephen Hillenburg
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie screenwriter Stephen Hillenburg
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie storyBy Stephen Hillenburg
SpongeBob's pineapple house createdBy Stephen Hillenburg
Patrick's rock createdForSeriesBy Stephen Hillenburg