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
Anna
surface form: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
tuberculosis
Nadezhda Alliluyeva suicide by firearm
Nadezhda Alliluyeva suicide via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Kim Il Sung heart attack
Giles Corey pressed to death via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Giles Corey pressing under heavy stones
Oscar Niemeyer respiratory infection
Fidel Castro natural causes
Byron Nelson natural causes
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. heart attack
Mickey Rooney natural causes
Estelle Getty dementia with Lewy bodies
Chris Cornell suicide by hanging
Fay Wray natural causes
Victor Fleming heart attack
Elie Wiesel natural causes
Dee Dee Warwick complications of ill health
Francis Drake disease via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Francis Drake dysentery
Norman Kirk heart attack
Charlie Chaplin stroke
René Cassin disease
Thomas Cranmer execution by burning
Jonathan Edwards smallpox
Hermann Göring suicide by cyanide poisoning
Ralph Waldo Emerson pneumonia
Emmy Noether postoperative infection
Anwar Sadat assassination via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Anwar Sadat gunshot wounds
John H. Conway COVID-19
Crimean War disease rather than combat via predicate surface "majorityOfDeathsCause"
Henry Armstrong heart failure
Louis Agassiz natural causes via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Mary Wollstonecraft puerperal fever
Muhammad Ali Jinnah tuberculosis
Mario Savio heart attack
Le Duc Tho illness
John Gay fever
Jane Addams abdominal cancer
Norman Lear natural causes
Norman Bethune septicemia
Norman Bethune infection from a cut during surgery
George Westinghouse heart disease
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. lung cancer
Margaret Truman respiratory failure
Al Smith heart attack
George H. W. Bush vascular Parkinsonism
Murray Gell-Mann heart disease
Paul Revere natural causes
Elizabeth Howe execution via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"