Gilbert Durand

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anthropologist human philosopher university teacher

Gilbert Durand was a French philosopher and anthropologist best known for his influential work on the theory of symbols and the anthropology of the imaginary.

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Label	Occurrences
Gilbert Durand canonical	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	anthropologist ⓘ human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ university teacher ⓘ
countryOfBirth	France ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	France ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1921-05-01 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	2012-12-07 ⓘ
educatedAt	Université de Grenoble ⓘ Université de Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ
employer	Université de Chambéry NERFINISHED ⓘ Université de Grenoble NERFINISHED ⓘ
familyName	Durand NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	anthropology ⓘ anthropology of the imaginary ⓘ comparative literature ⓘ mythology ⓘ philosophy ⓘ symbolism ⓘ
givenName	Gilbert NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	Jean-Jacques Wunenburger NERFINISHED ⓘ Michel Maffesoli NERFINISHED ⓘ anthropology of imagination studies ⓘ
influencedBy	Carl Gustav Jung NERFINISHED ⓘ Gaston Bachelard NERFINISHED ⓘ Henri Bergson NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFor	analysis of myth and archetypes ⓘ anthropology of the imaginary ⓘ theory of symbols ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	French ⓘ
movement	anthropology of the imaginary ⓘ symbolic anthropology ⓘ
name	Gilbert Durand NERFINISHED ⓘ
nationality	French ⓘ
notableWork	Figures mythiques et visages de l’œuvre NERFINISHED ⓘ Les structures anthropologiques de l’imaginaire NERFINISHED ⓘ L’imagination symbolique NERFINISHED ⓘ L’Âme tigrée NERFINISHED ⓘ Science de l’homme et tradition NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	essayist ⓘ professor ⓘ writer ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Champagnole NERFINISHED ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Chambéry NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	Roman Catholicism ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
workLocation	Chambéry NERFINISHED ⓘ Grenoble NERFINISHED ⓘ

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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.

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Subject: Gilbert Durand
Description of subject: Gilbert Durand was a French philosopher and anthropologist best known for his influential work on the theory of symbols and the anthropology of the imaginary.

Referenced by (1)

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

Durand → hasNotableBearer → Gilbert Durand ⓘ