Mother Holle

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Mother Holle is a German fairy tale character from the Brothers Grimm collection, known as a supernatural old woman who rewards diligence and punishes laziness.

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Label Occurrences
Mother Holle canonical 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fairy tale character
fictional character
folklore figure
supernatural being
appearsIn Grimms' Fairy Tales NERFINISHED
Kinder- und Hausmärchen NERFINISHED
associatedWith domestic chores
household work
snow
spinning
basedOn German folklore
characteristic lives in another world
old woman
supernatural powers
countryOfOrigin Germany
createdBy Brothers Grimm NERFINISHED
creator Jacob Grimm NERFINISHED
Wilhelm Grimm NERFINISHED
culture German culture
firstPublicationForm fairy tale collection
firstPublishedBy Brothers Grimm NERFINISHED
firstPublishedIn Germany NERFINISHED
gender female
genre children's literature
fairy tale
hasAlternativeName Frau Holle NERFINISHED
hasMotive to maintain moral order
hasNameInGerman Frau Holle NERFINISHED
hasTheme reward and punishment
virtue and vice
work ethic
influencedBy European folk beliefs
languageOfWork German
moralAlignment punishes laziness
rewards diligence
narrativeUniverse German fairy tales
notableFor shaking her featherbed to make it snow
testing the diligence of girls
partOf Grimm fairy tale canon
residesIn house beyond a well
otherworldly realm
role judge of human behavior
punisher
rewarder
symbolizes domestic virtue
industry
justice
targetAudience children and families

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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: Mother Holle
Description of subject: Mother Holle is a German fairy tale character from the Brothers Grimm collection, known as a supernatural old woman who rewards diligence and punishes laziness.

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