Joan McCracken

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Joan McCracken was an American actress and dancer known for her comic talent and influential work in mid-20th-century Broadway musicals.

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Label Occurrences
Joan McCracken canonical 3

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf actress
dancer
human
activeYearsEnd 1960
activeYearsStart 1940
burialPlace Holy Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, Pennsylvania, United States NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath heart attack
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1922-12-31
dateOfDeath 1961-11-01
diagnosedWith diabetes mellitus
educatedAt Littlefield Ballet NERFINISHED
Philadelphia Ballet NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Irish American
genre musical theatre
hasFamilyName McCracken NERFINISHED
hasGivenName Joan NERFINISHED
influenced Bob Fosse NERFINISHED
knownFor comic talent
innovative musical comedy performance
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement Golden Age of Broadway NERFINISHED
notableWork Angel in the Wings NERFINISHED
Bloomer Girl NERFINISHED
Good News NERFINISHED
Hollywood Canteen NERFINISHED
Me and Juliet NERFINISHED
Oklahoma! NERFINISHED
The Big Knife NERFINISHED
occupation actress
comedian
dancer
partOf American musical theatre
performedRole Daisy in "Bloomer Girl" NERFINISHED
Nancy in "Me and Juliet" NERFINISHED
Sylvie in "Oklahoma!" NERFINISHED
performerIn Broadway theatre NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth Philadelphia
surface form: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
placeOfDeath New York City
surface form: New York City, New York, United States
sexOrGender female
spouse Bob Fosse NERFINISHED
Jack Dunphy NERFINISHED
workedIn Hollywood
New York City 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: Joan McCracken
Description of subject: Joan McCracken was an American actress and dancer known for her comic talent and influential work in mid-20th-century Broadway musicals.

Referenced by (3)

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

Bob Fosse spouse Joan McCracken
Good News starring Joan McCracken
subject surface form: Good News (1947 film)
Me and Juliet originalCastMember Joan McCracken