The Sky at Night

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The Sky at Night is a long-running BBC television series about astronomy and space science, best known for being presented for decades by British astronomer Patrick Moore.

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Label Occurrences
The Sky at Night canonical 3

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf television series
aimsTo explain astronomy to a wide audience
basedIn United Kingdom
broadcastFormat television
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator BBC NERFINISHED
distribution broadcast television
firstAired 1957
firstAiredOnChannel BBC Television NERFINISHED
genre astronomy television programme
science documentary
hasAudience amateur astronomers
general public
hasCoverageArea astronomical phenomena visible from Earth
space science developments
hasEpisodeType monthly episode
hasFormat documentary series
hasRegularSegment night sky observing guide
hasTopic cosmology
galaxies
observational astronomy
planets
space exploration
space missions
stars
language English
medium television
notableFor being one of the longest-running television series about astronomy
long-term presentation by Patrick Moore
notablePresenter Patrick Moore NERFINISHED
originalLanguage English
originalNetwork BBC NERFINISHED
BBC Four NERFINISHED
BBC One
presenter Chris Lintott NERFINISHED
Lucie Green NERFINISHED
Maggie Aderin-Pocock NERFINISHED
Patrick Moore NERFINISHED
Paul Abel NERFINISHED
Pete Lawrence NERFINISHED
producedBy BBC Science Unit NERFINISHED
productionCompany BBC
subject astronomy
astrophysics
space science
typicalRuntime 30 minutes

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.
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Subject: The Sky at Night
Description of subject: The Sky at Night is a long-running BBC television series about astronomy and space science, best known for being presented for decades by British astronomer Patrick Moore.

Referenced by (3)

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

Patrick Moore notableWork The Sky at Night
Chris Lintott notableWork The Sky at Night
Chris Lintott presenterOf The Sky at Night