Code of Handsome Lake

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Iroquois religious movement moral code religious code

The Code of Handsome Lake is a set of moral and religious teachings revealed to the Seneca prophet Handsome Lake in the early 19th century, which reformed traditional Iroquois beliefs and practices while incorporating selected elements of Christianity.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Code of Handsome Lake canonical	3

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Iroquois religious movement ⓘ moral code ⓘ religious code ⓘ
aimsTo	adapt Iroquois religion to changing conditions ⓘ reform Iroquois society ⓘ resist cultural disintegration ⓘ
associatedWithEthnicGroup	Iroquois peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Seneca people NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWithPerson	Handsome Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ
basedOn	Seneca traditional religion NERFINISHED ⓘ
centralTheme	cultural preservation ⓘ moral reform ⓘ religious renewal ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
encourages	agriculture ⓘ family responsibility ⓘ honesty ⓘ observance of traditional ceremonies ⓘ sobriety ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Gaiwiio NERFINISHED ⓘ Good Message NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCreator	Handsome Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasEffectOn	Iroquois moral norms ⓘ Iroquois religious practice ⓘ Seneca social organization NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasInfluenced	Longhouse Religion NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPart	moral teachings ⓘ prophecies ⓘ religious teachings ⓘ ritual prescriptions ⓘ social regulations ⓘ visions of Handsome Lake ⓘ
inception	early 19th century ⓘ
influencedBy	Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageOfExpression	Seneca language ⓘ
laterDocumentedBy	anthropologists ⓘ missionaries ⓘ
mainRegion	Iroquois Confederacy NERFINISHED ⓘ New York NERFINISHED ⓘ
prohibits	alcohol consumption ⓘ domestic violence ⓘ gambling ⓘ sexual immorality ⓘ witchcraft ⓘ
religiousStatus	still practiced by some Haudenosaunee communities ⓘ
religiousTradition	Haudenosaunee NERFINISHED ⓘ Iroquois NERFINISHED ⓘ Seneca NERFINISHED ⓘ
transmissionMethod	oral tradition ⓘ
viewedAs	compromise between traditional Iroquois beliefs and Christianity ⓘ

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: Code of Handsome Lake
Description of subject: The Code of Handsome Lake is a set of moral and religious teachings revealed to the Seneca prophet Handsome Lake in the early 19th century, which reformed traditional Iroquois beliefs and practices while incorporating selected elements of Christianity.

Referenced by (3)

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

Longhouse religion → hasAlternativeName → Code of Handsome Lake ⓘ

Longhouse religion → coreText → Code of Handsome Lake ⓘ

Handsome Lake → notableWork → Code of Handsome Lake ⓘ