George Mason

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George Mason was an American Founding Father and influential Virginian statesman best known for authoring the Virginia Declaration of Rights and opposing the ratification of the U.S. Constitution without a bill of rights.

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Label Occurrences
George Mason canonical 38
George Mason V 2

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American politician
Founding Father of the United States
human
planter
slave owner
authorOf Virginia Declaration of Rights
burialPlace Gunston Hall family cemetery
child George Mason self-linksurface differs
surface form: George Mason V

John Mason
Thomson Mason
countryOfCitizenship Colony and Dominion of Virginia
surface form: Colony of Virginia

United States of America
dateOfBirth 1725-12-11
dateOfDeath 1792-10-07
educatedAt self-educated
ethnicGroup English American
familyName Mason
givenName George
heritageDesignation namesake of George Mason University
influenced French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
surface form: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

James Madison
Bill of Rights
surface form: United States Bill of Rights
knownFor drafting the Virginia Declaration of Rights
influencing the United States Bill of Rights
opposing ratification of the U.S. Constitution without a bill of rights
memberOf Annapolis Convention of 1786
surface form: Mount Vernon Conference

Constitutional Convention
surface form: Philadelphia Constitutional Convention

Virginia Convention
House of Burgesses
surface form: Virginia House of Burgesses
namesakeOf George Mason Memorial
George Mason University
nativeLanguage English
notableWork Virginia Declaration of Rights
opposedTo ratification of the U.S. Constitution without a bill of rights
owned Gunston Hall plantation
participatedIn American Revolutionary era politics
drafting of Virginia’s first state constitution
placeOfBirth Fairfax County, Colony of Virginia
placeOfDeath Gunston Hall, Fairfax County, Virginia
politicalAlignment Anti-Federalists
surface form: Anti-Federalist
positionHeld delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (1787)
member of the Virginia House of Burgesses
member of the Virginia House of Delegates
religion Anglicanism
residence Fairfax County, Virginia
Gunston Hall
sexOrGender male
spouse Ann Eilbeck Mason
workLocation Virginia

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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: George Mason
Description of subject: George Mason was an American Founding Father and influential Virginian statesman best known for authoring the Virginia Declaration of Rights and opposing the ratification of the U.S. Constitution without a bill of rights.

Referenced by (40)

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

Anti-Federalists notableMember George Mason
George Mason University namedAfter George Mason
14th Street Bridge namedAfter George Mason
subject surface form: George Mason Memorial Bridge
George Mason child George Mason self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: George Mason V
House of Burgesses notableMember George Mason
Virginia Convention author George Mason
subject surface form: Virginia Declaration of Rights
24 (TV series) character George Mason
subject surface form: 24
George Mason Memorial honours George Mason
George Mason Memorial commemorates George Mason
George Mason Memorial dedicatedTo George Mason
George Mason Memorial namedAfter George Mason
Philadelphia Convention keyDelegate George Mason
Gunston Hall builtFor George Mason
Gunston Hall namedAfter George Mason
Gunston Hall notableResident George Mason
Thomson Mason relative George Mason
Thomson Mason sibling George Mason
Thomson Mason relative George Mason
this entity surface form: George Mason V
Gunston Hall plantation formerOwner George Mason
George Mason Drive namedAfter George Mason
George Mason High School (historical name of city high school) namedAfter George Mason
subject surface form: George Mason High School
Ann Eilbeck Mason spouse George Mason