Norval Chase
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Norval Chase is a fictional Canadian industrialist and patriarch in Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Blind Assassin," known as the father of narrator Iris Chase.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Norval Chase canonical | 1 |
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | novel ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
Canadian industrial capitalism
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class and power ⓘ family patriarchy ⓘ |
| businessLocation | Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessSector | manufacturing ⓘ |
| child |
Iris Chase
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Laura Chase NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| creator | Margaret Atwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Chase NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Blind Assassin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasFictionalNationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widower ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | patriarch of the Chase family ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | described through Iris Chase’s narration ⓘ |
| notableRole | father of narrator Iris Chase ⓘ |
| occupation | industrialist ⓘ |
| positionInFamily | patriarch ⓘ |
| publisherOfWork |
Bloomsbury Publishing
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
McClelland and Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Port Ticonderoga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Lilian Chase NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFictionalExistence |
early 20th century
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interwar period ⓘ |
| workFeaturedIn | The Blind Assassin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Norval Chase Description of subject: Norval Chase is a fictional Canadian industrialist and patriarch in Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Blind Assassin," known as the father of narrator Iris Chase.
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