Joseph Jacobs

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Jewish scholar editor folklorist historian literary critic

Joseph Jacobs was a folklorist and historian best known for collecting and popularizing English fairy tales in the late 19th century.

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Label	Occurrences
Joseph Jacobs canonical	6

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Jewish scholar ⓘ editor ⓘ folklorist ⓘ historian ⓘ literary critic ⓘ
activePeriod	early 20th century ⓘ late 19th century ⓘ
birthDate	1854-08-29 ⓘ
birthPlace	Australia ⓘ New South Wales ⓘ Sydney ⓘ
contributedTo	Jewish Encyclopedia ⓘ surface form: The Jewish Encyclopedia
deathDate	1916-01-30 ⓘ
deathPlace	New York ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States Yonkers, New York ⓘ surface form: Yonkers
educatedAt	St John’s College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Sydney NERFINISHED ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Jewish ⓘ
fieldOfWork	Jewish studies ⓘ folklore ⓘ history ⓘ literary studies ⓘ
knownFor	collecting English fairy tales ⓘ editing collections of folk tales ⓘ popularizing English fairy tales ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
movement	Jewish emancipation ⓘ
name	Joseph Jacobs self-link ⓘ
nationality	Australian ⓘ
notableWork	Celtic Fairy Tales ⓘ English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs ⓘ surface form: English Fairy Tales Brothers Grimm fairy tales ⓘ surface form: European Folk and Fairy Tales Indian Fairy Tales ⓘ Jewish Ideals ⓘ More Celtic Fairy Tales ⓘ More English Fairy Tales ⓘ
occupation	author ⓘ editor ⓘ folklorist ⓘ historian ⓘ journalist ⓘ literary critic ⓘ
religion	Judaism ⓘ
roleInPublication	editor of The Jewish Encyclopedia ⓘ
wroteOn	Jewish history ⓘ Jewish statistics ⓘ folklore theory ⓘ

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: Joseph Jacobs
Description of subject: Joseph Jacobs was a folklorist and historian best known for collecting and popularizing English fairy tales in the late 19th century.

Referenced by (6)

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

Jack and the Beanstalk → firstMajorCollector → Joseph Jacobs ⓘ

Jewish Encyclopedia → contributor → Joseph Jacobs ⓘ

English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs → author → Joseph Jacobs ⓘ

subject surface form: English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs → compiler → Joseph Jacobs ⓘ

subject surface form: English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs → editor → Joseph Jacobs ⓘ

subject surface form: English Fairy Tales

Joseph Jacobs → name → Joseph Jacobs self-link ⓘ