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.

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Label Occurrences
Norval Chase canonical 1

Statements (31)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
appearsInGenre novel
associatedWithTheme Canadian industrial capitalism
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
interwar period
workFeaturedIn The Blind Assassin 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: 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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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Iris Chase hasFather Norval Chase