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
George Washington natural causes via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
George Washington throat infection
Henry Clay Frick heart attack
Winston
surface form: Winston Churchill
stroke
Elizabeth II old age
Clementine Churchill heart attack
Mahatma Gandhi assassination by firearm
Adolf Hitler suicide via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Adolf Hitler gunshot wound
Douglas Adams heart attack
Douglas Fairbanks heart attack
Linus Pauling prostate cancer
Rebecca Nurse execution by hanging via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Rebecca Nurse execution
Ferdinand Magellan killed in battle
Napoleon Bonaparte stomach illness (disputed, possibly stomach cancer)
Dale Carnegie Hodgkin lymphoma
St. Margaret of Scotland (associated)
surface form: St. Margaret of Scotland
illness
Elizabeth Arden natural causes
Samuel Gompers heart failure
Vincent Astor heart attack
Abraham
surface form: Abraham Lincoln
assassination
Abraham
surface form: Abraham Lincoln
homicide via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Erwin Rommel forced suicide
Erwin Rommel cyanide poisoning
Erwin Rommel suicide via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Henry David Thoreau tuberculosis
Thomas Malthus heart disease
Lynn Margulis stroke
Isoroku Yamamoto killed in action via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Isoroku Yamamoto aircraft shootdown
Thurgood Marshall heart failure
John Maynard Keynes heart attack
Benito Mussolini execution by firing squad
Benito Mussolini extrajudicial killing via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Kato Svanidze tuberculosis
Thomas Alva Edison complications from diabetes
Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt natural causes
Henry A. Wallace amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Thomas Jefferson natural causes via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Thomas Jefferson illness associated with old age
Richard Nixon stroke
William Pitt the Elder probable stroke
Calvert Vaux drowning
C. Everett Koop natural causes
Douglas MacArthur biliary cirrhosis
Steve Jobs pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor
Steve Jobs respiratory arrest
Ray Dolby leukemia
Edward Everett stroke