Legacy of Ashes

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Legacy of Ashes is a nonfiction book by journalist Tim Weiner that critically examines the history and failures of the CIA.

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Legacy of Ashes canonical 1

Statements (33)

Predicate Object
instanceOf history book
nonfiction book
author Tim Weiner NERFINISHED
authorEmployerAtTimeOfWriting The New York Times NERFINISHED
awarded National Book Award for Nonfiction NERFINISHED
awardYear 2007 National Book Award for Nonfiction NERFINISHED
basedOn declassified U.S. government documents
interviews with current and former CIA officials
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticizes Central Intelligence Agency NERFINISHED
U.S. presidential oversight of intelligence
genre intelligence studies
political history
hasAuthorOccupation journalist
hasISBN 9780385514453
language English
mainSubject Central Intelligence Agency NERFINISHED
failures of U.S. intelligence
history of the CIA
mediaType hardcover
paperback
print
notableFor critical examination of CIA history
use of extensive archival sources
placeOfPublication New York City
publicationDate 2007
publisher Doubleday
timeSpanCovered from World War II to the George W. Bush administration
topic Cold War espionage
U.S. foreign policy
covert operations
intelligence failures
national security

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.
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Subject: Legacy of Ashes
Description of subject: Legacy of Ashes is a nonfiction book by journalist Tim Weiner that critically examines the history and failures of the CIA.

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

Weiner notableWork Legacy of Ashes
subject surface form: Tim Weiner