Edwin J. Burke

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Edwin J. Burke was an American screenwriter and playwright best known for his work in early 20th-century Hollywood cinema, including several films starring Shirley Temple.

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Label Occurrences
Edwin J. Burke canonical 1

Statements (28)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American playwright
person
playwright
screenwriter
activeIn early 20th-century American cinema
awardReceived Academy Award for Best Writing, Adaptation NERFINISHED
awardReceivedFor Bad Girl NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
fieldOfWork film
theatre
genre film screenplay
stage play
industry Hollywood
surface form: Hollywood film industry
languageOfWorkOrName English
notableFor screenplays for Shirley Temple vehicles
work on early Hollywood films
notableWork Bad Girl NERFINISHED
Bright Eyes NERFINISHED
Curly Top NERFINISHED
Poor Little Rich Girl NERFINISHED
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm NERFINISHED
The Littlest Rebel NERFINISHED
occupation playwright
screenwriter
partOf classical Hollywood cinema era
workLocation Hollywood
United States of America
surface form: United States
wroteFor Shirley Temple films 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.
Input
Subject: Edwin J. Burke
Description of subject: Edwin J. Burke was an American screenwriter and playwright best known for his work in early 20th-century Hollywood cinema, including several films starring Shirley Temple.

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Bright Eyes (1934 film) screenwriter Edwin J. Burke