Jaws

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Jaws is a 1974 thriller novel by Peter Benchley, best known for its story of a great white shark terrorizing a seaside resort town and inspiring the iconic 1975 film adaptation.

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Jaws canonical 9

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf horror novel
novel
adaptationDirector Steven Spielberg NERFINISHED
adaptationReleaseYear 1975
adaptationType feature film
author Peter Benchley NERFINISHED
character Martin Brody NERFINISHED
Matt Hooper NERFINISHED
Quint NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
coverArtDepicts shark approaching swimmer
firstEditionFormat hardcover
genre horror
suspense fiction
thriller
hasAdaptation Jaws (1975 film) NERFINISHED
hasFilmFranchiseOrigin Jaws film series NERFINISHED
hasSequel The Deep NERFINISHED
The Island NERFINISHED
hasTheme commercial interests versus public safety
fear and paranoia
man versus nature
the unknown depths of the ocean
influenced popular perception of sharks
summer blockbuster culture (via film adaptation)
inspiredBy shark attacks
literaryPeriod 20th-century American literature
mainAntagonist great white shark
marketedAs bestseller
thriller
medium print
narrativePerspective third-person
notableFor depiction of a great white shark terrorizing a resort town
inspiring the 1975 film Jaws
originalLanguage English
pageCount approximately 300
protagonist Martin Brody NERFINISHED
protagonistOccupation police chief
publicationYear 1974
publisher Doubleday
setting Amity Island NERFINISHED
settingType seaside resort town
subjectMatter fear of nature
shark attacks
small-town politics
tourism economy
timePeriod 1970s

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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: Jaws
Description of subject: Jaws is a 1974 thriller novel by Peter Benchley, best known for its story of a great white shark terrorizing a seaside resort town and inspiring the iconic 1975 film adaptation.

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