Robertson Davies

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Canadian writer essayist human journalist literary critic novelist playwright professor

Robertson Davies was a renowned Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, and professor best known for works such as the Deptford Trilogy and his influential role in 20th-century Canadian literature.

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Label	Occurrences
Robertson Davies canonical	3

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Canadian writer ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ literary critic ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ professor ⓘ
awardReceived	Companion of the Order of Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ Lorne Pierce Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Canada ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1913-08-28 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1995-12-02 ⓘ
educatedAt	Balliol College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ Queen’s University NERFINISHED ⓘ
employer	Massey College, University of Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ
familyName	Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	Canadian literature ⓘ drama ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ
genre	drama ⓘ fiction ⓘ satire ⓘ
givenName	Robertson NERFINISHED ⓘ William ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
name	William Robertson Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	influential role in 20th-century Canadian literature ⓘ
notableWork	Fifth Business NERFINISHED ⓘ Murther and Walking Spirits NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cornish Trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cunning Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Deptford Trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lyre of Orpheus NERFINISHED ⓘ The Manticore NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rebel Angels NERFINISHED ⓘ The Salterton Trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ What’s Bred in the Bone NERFINISHED ⓘ World of Wonders NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	critic ⓘ editor ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ professor ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Thamesville, Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Toronto, Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ
positionHeld	Master of Massey College NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	Anglicanism NERFINISHED ⓘ
spouse	Brenda Ethel Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

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: Robertson Davies
Description of subject: Robertson Davies was a renowned Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, and professor best known for works such as the Deptford Trilogy and his influential role in 20th-century Canadian literature.

Referenced by (3)

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

Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto → hasNotableInterments → Robertson Davies ⓘ

Canadian literature canon → associatedWith → Robertson Davies ⓘ

WH Smith Literary Award → hasWinner → Robertson Davies ⓘ