Samuel Gridley Howe

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Samuel Gridley Howe was a 19th-century American physician, abolitionist, and pioneering educator best known for his work with the blind and as the first director of the Perkins School for the Blind.

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Label Occurrences
Samuel Gridley Howe canonical 12

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American abolitionist
abolitionist
educator
human
physician
social reformer
advocatedFor abolition of slavery in the United States
education of people with disabilities
birthDate 1801-11-10
birthPlace Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
burialPlace Mount Auburn Cemetery
surface form: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
deathDate 1876-01-09
deathPlace Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
educatedAt Brown University
Harvard Medical School
employer Perkins School for the Blind
familyName Howe
fieldOfWork education of the blind
medicine
social reform
fullName Samuel Gridley Howe self-link
genre nonfiction
givenName Samuel
knownFor educating Laura Bridgman, a deafblind student
memberOf American Anti-Slavery Society
militaryRole surgeon in the Greek War of Independence
movement abolitionism
disability rights advocacy
education reform
prison reform
notableFor directorship of the Perkins School for the Blind
pioneering education for the blind
notableStudent Laura Bridgman
notableWork Annual reports on the education of the blind
occupation abolitionist
educator
physician
social reformer
parentOf Florence Howe Hall
Maud Howe Elliott
surface form: Julia Romana Howe

Laura E. Richards
Maud Howe Elliott
participatedIn Greek War of Independence
positionHeld first director of the Perkins School for the Blind
religion Unitarianism
residence Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
spouse Julia Ward Howe

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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: Samuel Gridley Howe
Description of subject: Samuel Gridley Howe was a 19th-century American physician, abolitionist, and pioneering educator best known for his work with the blind and as the first director of the Perkins School for the Blind.

Referenced by (12)

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

Julia Ward Howe spouse Samuel Gridley Howe
Florence Howe Hall father Samuel Gridley Howe
Florence Howe Hall hasRelative Samuel Gridley Howe
Samuel Gridley Howe fullName Samuel Gridley Howe self-link
Philhellenes hasNotableMember Samuel Gridley Howe
Maud Howe Elliott father Samuel Gridley Howe
Julia Ward spouse Samuel Gridley Howe
subject surface form: Julia Ward Howe
Laura E. Richards father Samuel Gridley Howe
Perkins School for the Blind founder Samuel Gridley Howe
Laura Bridgman studentOf Samuel Gridley Howe