Nils Asther

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Nils Asther was a Swedish-born Hollywood actor known for his suave leading-man roles in silent and early sound films, often opposite major stars of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Label Occurrences
Nils Asther canonical 3

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Swedish person
film actor
human
silent film actor
activeIn Hollywood
Swedish cinema
birthName Nils Anton Alfhild Asther
causeOfDeath heart attack
countryOfCitizenship Sweden
countryOfResidence Sweden
United States of America
dateOfBirth 1897-01-17
dateOfDeath 1981-10-13
era early sound era
silent film era
ethnicOrigin Swedish
eyeColor blue
gender male
hairColor dark brown
languagesSpoken English
Swedish
name Nils Asther self-link
notableCharacteristic tall and handsome screen presence
notableFor leading roles in early sound films
suave leading-man roles in silent films
occupation actor
film actor
partner Ken DuMain
placeOfBirth Copenhagen
surface form: Copenhagen, Denmark
placeOfDeath Stockholm
surface form: Stockholm, Sweden
religion Buddhism
sexualOrientation gay
spouse Vivian Duncan NERFINISHED
starredIn Our Dancing Daughters
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
The Love of Sunya
The Masked Bride
The Right to Love
The Single Standard
Wild Orchids
workedWith Barbara Stanwyck NERFINISHED
Greta Garbo
Joan Crawford
Norma Shearer ONNED1
yearsActive 1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s

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: Nils Asther
Description of subject: Nils Asther was a Swedish-born Hollywood actor known for his suave leading-man roles in silent and early sound films, often opposite major stars of the 1920s and 1930s.

Referenced by (3)

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

Night Monster starring Nils Asther
Girl Shy starring Nils Asther
Nils Asther name Nils Asther self-link