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
Elizabeth Howe hanging
John Carver illness
John A. Roebling tetanus
John A. Roebling accident via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. enemy fire
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. killed in action via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. artillery fire via predicate surface "deathCause"
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski cancer
Pablo Picasso pulmonary edema
Andy Warhol cardiac arrhythmia
Claude Monet lung disease
Herbert Marcuse stroke
Louis Botha heart failure
Sully Prudhomme stroke
Laurence Olivier kidney failure
Lester B. Pearson cancer
Voltaire illness
Augustus natural causes
Constantine XI Palaiologos killed in action via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Constantine XI Palaiologos battlefield death during Ottoman assault on Constantinople
Wilfred Owen killed in action
Paul Broca cerebral hemorrhage
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna execution by shooting via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Anne Morrow Lindbergh stroke
Edgar Allan Poe unknown
Edward, son of Malcolm III and Margaret wounds received in battle via predicate surface "deathCause"
John Wilkes Booth gunshot wound via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
John Wilkes Booth gunshot wound
John Calvin illness
René Descartes pneumonia
Augustin-Jean Fresnel tuberculosis
Stonewall Jackson pneumonia
Stonewall Jackson friendly fire wounds
Vangelis heart failure
Truman Capote liver disease
James Randi age-related causes
Isaac Asimov complications of HIV/AIDS
Norman Wisdom vascular dementia
Norman Wisdom natural causes via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Neil A. Armstrong complications from cardiovascular surgery
Leonard Bernstein heart attack
Leonard Bernstein mesothelioma
Yuri Gagarin aviation accident via predicate surface "mannerOfDeath"
Sergei Eisenstein heart attack
Elbert H. Gary natural causes
Peter Lorre stroke
George V chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Prince John of the United Kingdom seizure
Jon Lindbergh renal cancer
Henry Knox infection