Chandrika Tandon

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Chandrika Tandon is an Indian-American business leader, philanthropist, and Grammy-nominated musician known for her major philanthropic contributions to education, including a landmark gift to New York University’s engineering school.

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Label Occurrences
Chandrika 1
Chandrika Tandon canonical 1

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf business leader
human
musician
awardNomination Grammy Award nomination
countryOfCitizenship India
United States of America
educatedAt Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad NERFINISHED
Madras Christian College NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Indian-American
fieldOfWork business
education philanthropy
music
genre Indian classical music
devotional music
world music
hasGivenPhilanthropicGiftTo New York University NERFINISHED
New York University Tandon School of Engineering NERFINISHED
hasRelative Ranjan Tandon NERFINISHED
hasRole chair of the Board of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering (philanthropic role)
knownFor fusion of Indian classical music with other styles
landmark gift to New York University’s engineering school
major philanthropic contributions to New York University
support for higher education
languageOfWorkOrName English
Hindi
Sanskrit NERFINISHED
memberOf Board of Trustees of New York University NERFINISHED
notableEvent NYU engineering school renamed NYU Tandon School of Engineering in recognition of gift from Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon
notableFor Grammy-nominated music recordings
business leadership
philanthropy in education
notableWork Shivoham – The Quest NERFINISHED
Soul Call NERFINISHED
occupation business executive
composer
philanthropist
recording artist
singer
philanthropicRecipient New York University Tandon School of Engineering NERFINISHED
residence New York City
spouse Ranjan Tandon 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: Chandrika Tandon
Description of subject: Chandrika Tandon is an Indian-American business leader, philanthropist, and Grammy-nominated musician known for her major philanthropic contributions to education, including a landmark gift to New York University’s engineering school.

Referenced by (2)

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

Chandrika Kumaratunga (as Prime Minister in 1994) givenName Chandrika Tandon
subject surface form: Chandrika Kumaratunga
this entity surface form: Chandrika