Gaylord Nelson

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Gaylord Nelson was an American politician and environmentalist best known as the founder of Earth Day and a longtime U.S. Senator from Wisconsin.

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Label Occurrences
Gaylord Nelson canonical 8

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American politician
environmentalist
human
awardReceived Ansel Adams Award
Presidential Medal of Freedom
burialPlace Clear Lake Cemetery, Clear Lake, Wisconsin
causeOfDeath cardiovascular disease
conflict World War II
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1916-06-04
dateOfDeath 2005-07-03
educatedAt San Jose State University
surface form: San Jose State College

University of Wisconsin Law School
University of Wisconsin–Madison
employer The Wilderness Society
endTime 1963-01-07
1981-01-03
familyName Nelson
fieldOfWork conservation policy
environmental protection
givenName Gaylord
inceptionOf Earth Day
knownFor founder of Earth Day
memberOf Democratic Party
surface form: Democratic Party (United States)

United States Senate
militaryBranch United States Army
notableWork founding of Earth Day
numberOfChildren 3
occupation environmentalist
lawyer
politician
officeContested United States Senate election in Wisconsin
placeOfBirth Clear Lake, Wisconsin
placeOfDeath Kensington, Maryland
politicalParty Democratic Party
surface form: Democratic Party (United States)
positionHeld Governor of Wisconsin
United States Senator
counselor at The Wilderness Society
religion Methodism
represented Wisconsin
residence Madison, Wisconsin, United States
surface form: Madison, Wisconsin

Washington, D.C.
sexOrGender male
spouse Carrie Lee Dotson Nelson
startTime 1959-01-05
1963-01-03
stateOfBirth Wisconsin

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: Gaylord Nelson
Description of subject: Gaylord Nelson was an American politician and environmentalist best known as the founder of Earth Day and a longtime U.S. Senator from Wisconsin.

Referenced by (8)

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

Earth Day wasFoundedBy Gaylord Nelson
Clear Lake Cemetery, Clear Lake, Wisconsin hasFounder Gaylord Nelson
subject surface form: Earth Day
Carrie Lee Dotson Nelson spouse Gaylord Nelson
Clear Lake, Wisconsin notablePerson Gaylord Nelson