Edward Villella

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artistic director ballet dancer choreographer human

Edward Villella is an acclaimed American ballet dancer and choreographer, best known as a star principal of the New York City Ballet and a leading interpreter of George Balanchine’s works.

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Label	Occurrences
Edward Villella canonical	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	artistic director ⓘ ballet dancer ⓘ choreographer ⓘ human ⓘ
awardReceived	Capezio Dance Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Dance Magazine Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Kennedy Center Honors ⓘ National Medal of Arts ⓘ New York City Mayor’s Award of Honor for Arts and Culture NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
educatedAt	New York Maritime College NERFINISHED ⓘ School of American Ballet NERFINISHED ⓘ
employer	New York City Ballet NERFINISHED ⓘ
familyName	Villella NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	choreography ⓘ performing arts ⓘ
founded	Miami City Ballet NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre	ballet ⓘ
givenName	Edward ⓘ
hasInfluenced	development of American male ballet technique ⓘ
influencedBy	George Balanchine NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerome Robbins NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
memberOf	New York City Ballet NERFINISHED ⓘ
militaryBranch	United States Merchant Marine NERFINISHED ⓘ
movementStyle	neoclassical ballet ⓘ
name	Edward Villella NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	bringing athletic, masculine style to ballet roles ⓘ interpretations of George Balanchine’s ballets ⓘ popularizing male virtuoso roles in American ballet ⓘ television appearances that broadened ballet’s audience in the United States ⓘ
notableWork	Afternoon of a Faun (Jerome Robbins) NERFINISHED ⓘ Harlequinade (George Balanchine) NERFINISHED ⓘ Prodigal Son (role in George Balanchine’s ballet) NERFINISHED ⓘ Rubies (principal role in George Balanchine’s Jewels) ⓘ Tarantella (George Balanchine) NERFINISHED ⓘ autobiography "Prodigal Son" NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	artistic director ⓘ author ⓘ ballet dancer ⓘ choreographer ⓘ television presenter ⓘ
positionHeld	founding artistic director of Miami City Ballet ⓘ principal dancer at New York City Ballet ⓘ
residence	Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
workLocation	Miami NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City ⓘ

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.

Input

Subject: Edward Villella
Description of subject: Edward Villella is an acclaimed American ballet dancer and choreographer, best known as a star principal of the New York City Ballet and a leading interpreter of George Balanchine’s works.

Referenced by (1)

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

SAB → hasNotableAlumni → Edward Villella ⓘ

subject surface form: School of American Ballet