Curly McLain

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Curly McLain is the charming cowboy protagonist of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!"

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Curly McLain canonical 17
Curly McLain in Oklahoma! 2
Curly 1

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
male character
stage musical character
adaptationAppearance 1955 film adaptation of "Oklahoma!"
appearsIn Oklahoma! (stage production)
surface form: Oklahoma!
basedOn Curly McLain self-linksurface differs
surface form: Curly (character in the play "Green Grow the Lilacs")
centralThemeRelation American frontier life
romantic love
rural community
characterTrait charming
confident
romantic
countryOfFictionalOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
createdBy Oscar Hammerstein II
Richard Rodgers
firstAppearance Oklahoma! (stage production)
surface form: stage musical "Oklahoma!" (1943)
genreOfWorkAppearsIn musical theatre
hasFictionalResidence a ranch near Laurey Williams's farm
hasPersonalityArchetype cowboy hero
hasRival Jud Fry
hasRomanticRelationshipWith Laurey Williams
hasStageVoiceType baritone
isTitleCharacterOfSong "Curly's Song" sections in "Oklahoma!" score
languageOfCharacter English
loveInterest Laurey Williams
medium film
stage
narrativeFunction hero
romantic lead
occupation cowboy
partOf Rodgers and Hammerstein character roster
portrayedBy Alfred Drake
Gordon MacRae
roleInWork protagonist of "Oklahoma!"
settingOfActivity Oklahoma
surface form: Oklahoma Territory
singsSong Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'
Oklahoma! (stage production)
surface form: Oklahoma!

People Will Say We're in Love
Pore Jud Is Daid
The Surrey with the Fringe on Top
timePeriodOfFictionalSetting early 20th century
workAuthor Rodgers and Hammerstein

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: Curly McLain
Description of subject: Curly McLain is the charming cowboy protagonist of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!"

Referenced by (21)

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

Oklahoma! (stage production) featuresCharacter Curly McLain
subject surface form: Oklahoma!
Green Grow the Lilacs hasMainCharacter Curly McLain
this entity surface form: Curly
Curly McLain basedOn Curly McLain self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Curly (character in the play "Green Grow the Lilacs")
Aunt Eller hasRelationship Curly McLain
Jud Fry hasRival Curly McLain
Jud Fry threatens Curly McLain
Laurey Williams hasLoveInterest Curly McLain
Laurey Williams pursuedBy Curly McLain
Laurey Williams engagedTo Curly McLain
Laurey Williams marriedTo Curly McLain
Pore Jud Is Daid characterSinging Curly McLain
Jud Fry in Oklahoma! (original Broadway production) romanticRivalOf Curly McLain
subject surface form: Jud Fry
Alfred Capurro notableRole Curly McLain
subject surface form: Alfred Drake
this entity surface form: Curly McLain in Oklahoma!
Albert Gordon MacRae portrayed Curly McLain
this entity surface form: Curly McLain in Oklahoma!