The General

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The General is a 1998 Irish crime film directed by John Boorman that chronicles the life and criminal career of Dublin gangster Martin Cahill.

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The General canonical 2

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf biographical film
crime film
film
awardReceived Best Director Award at Cannes Film Festival
basedOn The General by Paul Williams NERFINISHED
life of Martin Cahill
character Frances Cahill NERFINISHED
Inspector Ned Kenny NERFINISHED
Martin Cahill NERFINISHED
cinematographyBy Seamus Deasy NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Ireland
director John Boorman NERFINISHED
distributor Warner Bros. Pictures
surface form: Warner Bros.
editedBy Ron Davis NERFINISHED
festival 1998 Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED
filmingLocation Dublin NERFINISHED
format black-and-white
genre biographical
crime
drama
hasColorInfo black-and-white cinematography
hasIMDbId tt0119214
mainSubject Martin Cahill NERFINISHED
musicBy Richie Buckley NERFINISHED
narrativeLocation Dublin NERFINISHED
notableFor Brendan Gleeson’s portrayal of Martin Cahill
originalLanguage English
portrays Irish organized crime
criminal underworld in Dublin
producer John Boorman NERFINISHED
productionCompany Castle Rock Entertainment NERFINISHED
releaseDate 1998-05-08
releaseYear 1998
runtimeMinutes 124
screenedAt Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED
screenwriter John Boorman NERFINISHED
setInCountry Ireland NERFINISHED
setInLocation Dublin NERFINISHED
starring Adrian Dunbar NERFINISHED
Brendan Gleeson NERFINISHED
Jon Voight NERFINISHED
Maria Doyle Kennedy NERFINISHED
Sean McGinley NERFINISHED
title The General NERFINISHED

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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 General
Description of subject: The General is a 1998 Irish crime film directed by John Boorman that chronicles the life and criminal career of Dublin gangster Martin Cahill.

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Laurence Kinlan notableWork The General
Hell Bent featuresCharacter The General