Clive James

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Clive James was an Australian-born critic, broadcaster, poet, and memoirist renowned for his sharp wit, television criticism, and autobiographical works.

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Label Occurrences
Clive James canonical 5
Clive James on Television 1

Statements (57)

Predicate Object
instanceOf broadcaster
critic
human
memoirist
poet
television critic
writer
awardReceived Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Order of Australia
birthName Vivian Leopold James
causeOfDeath leukemia
countryOfBirth Australia
countryOfCitizenship Australia
United Kingdom
countryOfDeath United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1939-10-07
dateOfDeath 2019-11-24
describedBySource renowned for his sharp wit and television criticism
educatedAt Pembroke College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
Sydney Technical High School
University of Sydney
employer BBC
ITV
The Observer
familyName James
genre literary criticism
memoir
poetry
television criticism
givenName Vivian
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Footlights
name Clive James self-link
notableWork Clive James self-linksurface differs
surface form: Clive James on Television

Cultural Amnesia
Falling Towards England
May Week
surface form: May Week Was in June

North Face of Soho
Saturday Night Clive
The Blaze of Obscurity
Unreliable Memoirs
occupation broadcaster
critic
essayist
memoirist
novelist
poet
television critic
television presenter
placeOfBirth Kogarah
Sydney
placeOfDeath Cambridge, England
surface form: Cambridge

England
residence Cambridge, England
surface form: Cambridge

London, England
surface form: London
sexOrGender male
spouse Prue Shaw

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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: Clive James
Description of subject: Clive James was an Australian-born critic, broadcaster, poet, and memoirist renowned for his sharp wit, television criticism, and autobiographical works.

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

Clive James name Clive James self-link
Clive James notableWork Clive James self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Clive James on Television