causeOfDeath

P144
predicate

Indicates the specific factor, event, or condition that directly resulted in an entity’s death.

All labels observed (92)

Label Occurrences
causeOfDeath canonical 20,973
mannerOfDeath 4,213
deathCause 1,836

Description generation (PDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the predicate name and this instruction.

Instruction
Given a predicate that represents a relationship or action between entities, generate a one-sentence description explaining its meaning.  
# Instructions
Focus on describing the relationship, not the entities themselves. 
# Response Format
Begin the description with \' Indicates...\'
Input
Predicate: causeOfDeath
Generated description
Indicates the specific factor, event, or condition that directly resulted in an entity’s death.

Sample triples (27,597)

Subject Object
William Marsh Rice murder via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Bridget Bishop execution via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Bridget Bishop hanging
Saskia van Uylenburgh likely tuberculosis
Edsel Ford stomach cancer
Samuel Smith natural causes
Vespasian illness
Headless Horseman cannonball via predicate surface "causeOfDecapitation"
Émile Zola carbon monoxide poisoning
Kate Chopin cerebral hemorrhage
Langston Hughes complications from prostate cancer
Paul Cézanne pneumonia
Jacques Balmat mountain accident
Gustave Courbet liver disease
James Baldwin stomach cancer
Sylvia Plath suicide
Sylvia Plath suicide by gas inhalation via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Hannibal (Carthaginian general)
surface form: Hannibal
suicide by poison via predicate surface "deathCause"
Giuseppe Mercalli house fire
Mickey Mantle liver cancer
Red Holzman leukemia
Sam Huff complications of dementia
Bertram Ramsay air crash
Hernán Cortés pleurisy
Joe Fulks gunshot wound
Hendrickje Stoffels plague
Cornelis de Witt lynching via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Cornelis de Witt political assassination
Dorothy Hodgkin stroke
Karl Schwarzschild autoimmune disease
Karl Schwarzschild pemphigus
James W. Marshall illness
Winfield Scott natural causes via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Paul Gauguin syphilis
Jacques Anquetil stomach cancer
Pericles plague
Graham Chapman spinal cancer
Graham Chapman throat cancer
Alexandre Dumas stroke
Athos grief over Raoul’s death via predicate surface "deathCause"
Rudolf Virchow complications from a hip fracture
Leslie R. Groves Jr. heart attack
Leonid Brezhnev heart attack
Rudolf Hess suicide via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Rudolf Hess hanging
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga cancer
James Roosevelt II stroke
Darryl F. Zanuck pneumonia
Clark Gable heart attack
Katharine Hepburn cardiac arrest