Alva Erskine Vanderbilt

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American socialite person philanthropist suffragist

Alva Erskine Vanderbilt was a prominent American socialite and suffragist of the Gilded Age, known for her influential role in New York high society and her advocacy for women's rights.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Alva Vanderbilt	9
Alva Erskine Vanderbilt canonical	6
Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt	1
Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt Belmont	1
Alva Vanderbilt as a Venetian princess	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American socialite ⓘ person ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ suffragist ⓘ
associatedWith	Harkness family ⓘ surface form: Belmont family Vanderbilt family ⓘ
birthName	Alva Erskine Smith ⓘ
burialPlace	Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City ⓘ surface form: Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City, United States
causeOfDeath	stroke ⓘ
child	Consuelo Vanderbilt ⓘ Harold Stirling Vanderbilt ⓘ William Kissam Vanderbilt ⓘ surface form: William Kissam Vanderbilt II
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1853-01-17 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1933-01-26 ⓘ
era	Gilded Age ⓘ
ethnicGroup	White American ⓘ
familyName	Belmont ⓘ Smith ⓘ Vanderbilt ⓘ
fullName	Alva Erskine Vanderbilt self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt Belmont
genreOfActivism	women’s rights ⓘ women’s suffrage ⓘ
givenName	Alva ⓘ
memberOf	National Woman's Party ⓘ surface form: National Woman’s Party Political Equality League ⓘ
movement	women’s suffrage movement in the United States ⓘ
notableFor	advocacy for women’s rights ⓘ prominent figure in Gilded Age New York high society ⓘ support for militant suffrage tactics ⓘ
notableWork	Founding role in the National Woman’s Party ⓘ Founding role in the Political Equality League ⓘ Leadership in the construction of Marble House in Newport ⓘ Leadership in the construction of the Petit Chateau on Fifth Avenue ⓘ
occupation	philanthropist ⓘ political activist ⓘ socialite ⓘ
organized	elaborate costume ball at the Vanderbilt Fifth Avenue mansion in 1883 ⓘ
parent	Murray Forbes Smith ⓘ Phoebe Ann Desha ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Mobile, Alabama ⓘ surface form: Mobile, Alabama, United States
placeOfDeath	Paris ⓘ surface form: Paris, France
religion	Episcopalian ⓘ
residence	New York City ⓘ surface form: New York City, New York, United States Newport, Rhode Island ⓘ surface form: Newport, Rhode Island, United States Paris ⓘ surface form: Paris, France
socialClass	Gilded Age elite ⓘ
spouse	Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont ⓘ William Kissam Vanderbilt ⓘ

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: Alva Erskine Vanderbilt
Description of subject: Alva Erskine Vanderbilt was a prominent American socialite and suffragist of the Gilded Age, known for her influential role in New York high society and her advocacy for women's rights.

Referenced by (18)

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

William K. Vanderbilt House (Petit Château), New York → client → Alva Erskine Vanderbilt ⓘ

subject surface form: William K. Vanderbilt House

Consuelo Vanderbilt → mother → Alva Erskine Vanderbilt ⓘ