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Toshiro Mifune	Tell me about Toshiro Mifune.	[ "Toshiro Mifune, legendary Japanese actor", "Toshiro Mifune, the star of Akira Kurosawa's samurai films", "the actor who played in Seven Samurai and Rashomon", "Toshiro Mifune, Japanese cinema icon known for collaborations with Kurosawa", "Mifune, the celebrated performer in classic Japanese cinema" ]
Setsuko Hara	Tell me about Setsuko Hara.	[ "Setsuko Hara, legendary Japanese actress", "Setsuko Hara, the star of Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story", "the Japanese actress known as the Eternal Virgin", "Setsuko Hara, iconic performer in Japanese cinema from the 1930s to 1960s", "Masae Aida, who became famous as Setsuko Hara in Japanese film" ]
Madhubala	Tell me about Madhubala.	[ "Madhubala, iconic Indian actress of the 1950s", "Madhubala, the legendary Bollywood actress known for starring in Mughal-e-Azam", "the Indian film actress who played Anarkali in Mughal-e-Azam", "Madhubala in Hindi cinema's Golden Age", "Mumtaz Jehan Begum Dehlavi, known professionally as Madhubala" ]
Amitabh Bachchan	Tell me about Amitabh Bachchan.	[ "Amitabh Bachchan, legendary Bollywood actor", "Amitabh Bachchan, Indian film actor known as the 'Shahenshah of Bollywood'", "the star of Sholay and Deewar in Hindi cinema", "Amitabh Bachchan in Indian popular culture", "Big B, iconic Indian actor and television host" ]
Rajinikanth	Tell me about Rajinikanth.	[ "Rajinikanth, Indian actor and cultural icon", "Rajinikanth, the legendary Tamil cinema superstar known for his unique style", "Shivaji Rao Gaekwad, who performs as Rajinikanth", "the Indian actor famous for roles in Enthiran and Sivaji", "Thalaivar, the iconic Tamil film actor" ]
Jackie Chan	Tell me about Jackie Chan.	[ "Jackie Chan, Hong Kong martial artist and actor", "Jackie Chan, the actor known for combining martial arts with physical comedy", "Hong Kong-born action star Jackie Chan", "the star of Rush Hour and Police Story films", "Chan Kong-sang, internationally renowned martial arts actor and stuntman" ]
Rudolph Valentino	Tell me about Rudolph Valentino.	[ "Rudolph Valentino, silent film star of the 1920s", "Rudolph Valentino, the Italian-American actor known as the Latin Lover who starred in silent films", "the star of The Sheik and Blood and Sand", "Rudolph Valentino in early Hollywood cinema", "Valentino, the silent era's most famous romantic leading man" ]
Marlene Dietrich	Tell me about Marlene Dietrich.	[ "Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress and singer", "Marlene Dietrich, the star of The Blue Angel and Morocco", "the German actress known for her role in The Blue Angel (1930)", "Marlene Dietrich in Golden Age Hollywood cinema", "the cabaret performer who became a Hollywood icon in the 1930s" ]
Greta Garbo	Tell me about Greta Garbo.	[ "Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress of Hollywood's Golden Age", "Greta Garbo, the iconic silent film star who famously said 'I want to be alone'", "the Swedish actress born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson who became a Hollywood legend", "Greta Garbo in classic Hollywood cinema", "the reclusive MGM star known for Grand Hotel and Ninotchka" ]
Ingrid Bergman	Tell me about Ingrid Bergman.	[ "Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress and Hollywood star", "Ingrid Bergman, the Swedish actress who starred in Casablanca and won three Academy Awards", "the star of Casablanca and Notorious", "Ingrid Bergman's career in Golden Age Hollywood and European cinema", "Swedish-born actress Ingrid Bergman who worked with Hitchcock and Rossellini" ]
Marcello Mastroianni	Tell me about Marcello Mastroianni.	[ "Marcello Mastroianni, iconic Italian film actor", "Marcello Mastroianni, the Italian actor famous for La Dolce Vita and 8½", "the star of Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita", "Marcello Mastroianni in Italian cinema and international film", "Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni who starred opposite Sophia Loren" ]
Klaus Kinski	Tell me about Klaus Kinski.	[ "Klaus Kinski, German actor known for intense performances", "Klaus Kinski, the volatile German actor who starred in Werner Herzog films", "the star of Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Nosferatu the Vampyre", "Klaus Kinski in New German Cinema", "Nikolaus Karl Günther Nakszyński, the controversial German film actor" ]
Sophia Loren	Tell me about Sophia Loren.	[ "Sophia Loren, Italian actress and Hollywood icon", "Sophia Loren, the Academy Award-winning Italian actress known for her roles in the 1950s and 1960s", "the star of Two Women who won an Oscar in 1962", "Sophia Loren in classic Italian and international cinema", "Sofia Villani Scicolone, known professionally as Sophia Loren" ]
Sarah Bernhardt	Tell me about Sarah Bernhardt.	[ "Sarah Bernhardt, legendary French stage actress", "Sarah Bernhardt, the renowned French actress known as 'The Divine Sarah'", "the most famous actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Sarah Bernhardt", "Sarah Bernhardt in Belle Époque theater", "the Divine Sarah, French theatrical icon who performed into her seventies" ]
Jean Gabin	Tell me about Jean Gabin.	[ "Jean Gabin, iconic French actor and star", "Jean Gabin, the French actor known for his roles in poetic realism films", "the star of La Grande Illusion and Le Quai des brumes", "Jean Gabin in French cinema's golden age", "Jean-Alexis Moncorgé, the legendary French film actor" ]
Jeanne Moreau	Tell me about Jeanne Moreau.	[ "Jeanne Moreau, French actress and filmmaker", "Jeanne Moreau, the celebrated French actress who starred in Jules et Jim", "the French actress known for her roles in French New Wave cinema", "Jeanne Moreau, actress in over 100 films including The Lovers and La Notte", "the star of François Truffaut's Jules et Jim" ]
Brigitte Bardot	Tell me about Brigitte Bardot.	[ "Brigitte Bardot, French actress and animal rights activist", "Brigitte Bardot, the French film star who became an international sex symbol in the 1950s and 1960s", "Brigitte Bardot in French New Wave cinema", "the star of And God Created Woman who later became an animal welfare advocate", "BB, the iconic French actress and cultural phenomenon" ]
Alain Delon	Tell me about Alain Delon.	[ "Alain Delon, French actor and cinema icon", "Alain Delon, the French actor famous for films like Le Samouraï and Purple Noon", "the star of Plein Soleil and Rocco and His Brothers", "Alain Delon in French New Wave and crime cinema", "French actor known as one of Europe's most prominent film stars" ]
John Gielgud	Tell me about John Gielgud.	[ "John Gielgud, British actor and theatre director", "Sir John Gielgud, the renowned Shakespearean actor of the 20th century", "John Gielgud in classical British theatre and film", "the actor who won an Oscar for Arthur in 1981", "Arthur Gielgud, legendary stage performer known for his Hamlet" ]
Laurence Olivier	Tell me about Laurence Olivier.	[ "Laurence Olivier, legendary British actor and director", "Laurence Olivier, the acclaimed English actor known for Shakespearean roles and film adaptations", "Laurence Olivier in classical theatre and cinema", "the first director of the National Theatre of Great Britain", "Lord Olivier, winner of multiple Academy Awards and BAFTA honors" ]
Vivien Leigh	Tell me about Vivien Leigh.	[ "Vivien Leigh, British actress of stage and screen", "Vivien Leigh, the actress who played Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind", "the Oscar-winning actress who starred as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire", "Vivien Leigh in classic Hollywood cinema and British theatre", "Laurence Olivier's wife and frequent stage co-star Vivien Leigh" ]
Alec Guinness	Tell me about Alec Guinness.	[ "Alec Guinness, British actor known for Star Wars", "Alec Guinness, the actor who played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy", "the British actor who starred in The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Sir Alec Guinness, Academy Award-winning actor", "Alec Guinness in British cinema and theatre" ]
Audrey Hepburn	Tell me about Audrey Hepburn.	[ "Audrey Hepburn, British actress and humanitarian", "Audrey Hepburn, the star of Breakfast at Tiffany's and Roman Holiday", "Audrey Hepburn, Academy Award-winning actress known for her elegance and style in 1950s-60s cinema", "the actress who played Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's", "Audrey Hepburn's career in Golden Age Hollywood and later humanitarian work with UNICEF" ]
Sean Connery	Tell me about Sean Connery.	[ "Sean Connery, Scottish actor and original James Bond", "Sean Connery, the actor who portrayed James Bond in seven films", "the Scottish actor who starred in Dr. No and Goldfinger", "Sir Thomas Sean Connery", "the original cinematic James Bond actor from Edinburgh" ]
Peter O'Toole	Tell me about Peter O'Toole.	[ "Peter O'Toole, Irish-British actor of the 20th century", "Peter O'Toole, the actor who played Lawrence of Arabia in the 1962 film", "the star of Lawrence of Arabia and The Lion in Winter", "Peter O'Toole in classic Hollywood cinema", "the eight-time Oscar-nominated actor Peter O'Toole" ]
Julie Andrews	Tell me about Julie Andrews.	[ "Julie Andrews, British actress and singer", "Julie Andrews, the actress who starred in The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins", "Dame Julie Andrews, Academy Award-winning performer known for musical films", "the star of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music", "Julie Andrews in musical theatre and film" ]
Mary Pickford	Tell me about Mary Pickford.	[ "Mary Pickford, silent film star and co-founder of United Artists", "Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress known as 'America's Sweetheart' in early Hollywood", "the co-founder of United Artists with Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith", "Gladys Louise Smith, better known as Mary Pickford", "Mary Pickford in early cinema and film production" ]
Lillian Gish	Tell me about Lillian Gish.	[ "Lillian Gish, pioneering American silent film actress", "Lillian Gish, actress known as the First Lady of American Cinema", "the star of D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation and Intolerance", "Lillian Gish in early Hollywood and silent film history", "Dorothy Gish's sister and legendary silent screen performer" ]
Humphrey Bogart	Tell me about Humphrey Bogart.	[ "Humphrey Bogart, classic Hollywood actor and cultural icon", "Humphrey Bogart, American actor famous for Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon", "Bogart's career in film noir and romantic dramas", "the star of Casablanca who played Rick Blaine", "Humphrey DeForest Bogart, Golden Age Hollywood leading man" ]
Spencer Tracy	Tell me about Spencer Tracy.	[ "Spencer Tracy, acclaimed American film actor", "Spencer Tracy, the Hollywood legend who won two consecutive Best Actor Oscars", "the star of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and Inherit the Wind", "Spencer Tracy in classic Hollywood cinema", "American actor known for his naturalistic acting style and nine Oscar nominations" ]
Clark Gable	Tell me about Clark Gable.	[ "Clark Gable, Hollywood actor known as the King of Hollywood", "Clark Gable, American film actor who starred in Gone with the Wind", "the actor who played Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind", "Clark Gable in Golden Age Hollywood cinema", "William Clark Gable, iconic leading man of 1930s-1950s cinema" ]
Gary Cooper	Tell me about Gary Cooper.	[ "Gary Cooper, American film actor", "Gary Cooper, the Hollywood star known for High Noon and Sergeant York", "the Academy Award-winning actor who starred in High Noon", "Gary Cooper in classic Hollywood cinema", "Frank James Cooper, the legendary American actor" ]
Cary Grant	Tell me about Cary Grant.	[ "Cary Grant, classic Hollywood leading man", "Cary Grant, British-American actor famous for romantic comedies and Hitchcock thrillers", "the star of North by Northwest and Bringing Up Baby", "Archibald Leach, who became Hollywood icon Cary Grant", "Cary Grant in Golden Age Hollywood cinema" ]
Joan Crawford	Tell me about Joan Crawford.	[ "Joan Crawford, iconic Hollywood actress of the 1930s-1960s", "Joan Crawford, American film and television actress known for roles in Mildred Pierce and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?", "the star of Mildred Pierce who won an Academy Award in 1946", "Lucille Fay LeSueur, who became one of Hollywood's most enduring stars", "Joan Crawford in Golden Age Hollywood cinema" ]
Henry Fonda	Tell me about Henry Fonda.	[ "Henry Fonda, American film and stage actor", "Henry Fonda, the Oscar-winning star of 12 Angry Men and The Grapes of Wrath", "the actor who played Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath", "Henry Fonda in classic Hollywood cinema", "father of Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda, legendary American actor" ]
Katharine Hepburn	Tell me about Katharine Hepburn.	[ "Katharine Hepburn, iconic American actress of Hollywood's Golden Age", "Katharine Hepburn, four-time Academy Award winning actress known for The Philadelphia Story", "the actress who won the most Best Actress Oscars in history", "Katharine Hepburn in classic Hollywood cinema", "Spencer Tracy's longtime romantic partner and co-star" ]
John Wayne	Tell me about John Wayne.	[ "John Wayne, iconic American actor and Western film star", "John Wayne, the actor who starred in True Grit and The Searchers", "Marion Robert Morrison, known professionally as John Wayne", "the Duke, legendary Hollywood Western and war film actor", "John Wayne in American cinema and Western genre films" ]
Barbara Stanwyck	Tell me about Barbara Stanwyck.	[ "Barbara Stanwyck, Golden Age Hollywood actress", "Barbara Stanwyck, American film and television actress known for Double Indemnity and The Big Valley", "the star of Double Indemnity and Ball of Fire", "Barbara Stanwyck in classic Hollywood cinema", "Ruby Catherine Stevens, known professionally as Barbara Stanwyck" ]
Bette Davis	Tell me about Bette Davis.	[ "Bette Davis, iconic Hollywood actress", "Bette Davis, the two-time Academy Award-winning actress known for dramatic roles", "the star of All About Eve and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?", "Bette Davis in Golden Age Hollywood cinema", "Ruth Elizabeth Davis, legendary American film actress" ]
James Stewart	Tell me about James Stewart.	[ "James Stewart, classic Hollywood actor", "James Stewart, the American actor who starred in It's a Wonderful Life and Vertigo", "the star of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Rear Window", "Jimmy Stewart, beloved actor of Hollywood's Golden Age", "James Maitland Stewart, five-time Academy Award nominee" ]
Gregory Peck	Tell me about Gregory Peck.	[ "Gregory Peck, iconic American actor from Hollywood's Golden Age", "Gregory Peck, the Oscar-winning actor known for his portrayal of Atticus Finch", "the star of To Kill a Mockingbird who became an American film icon", "Gregory Peck in classic Hollywood cinema", "Eldred Gregory Peck, legendary leading man of 1950s and 1960s cinema" ]
Rita Hayworth	Tell me about Rita Hayworth.	[ "Rita Hayworth, Hollywood actress and dancer", "Rita Hayworth, the iconic 1940s film star known for Gilda", "the actress who starred as the title character in Gilda (1946)", "Margarita Carmen Cansino, who became Rita Hayworth", "Rita Hayworth in Golden Age Hollywood cinema" ]
Doris Day	Tell me about Doris Day.	[ "Doris Day, American actress and singer", "Doris Day, the Hollywood star known for Pillow Talk and Calamity Jane", "the actress and singer born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff", "Doris Day's career in Golden Age Hollywood musicals and romantic comedies", "the performer of 'Que Sera, Sera' and star of The Doris Day Show" ]
Judy Garland	Tell me about Judy Garland.	[ "Judy Garland, American actress and singer", "Judy Garland, the actress who played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz", "the star of The Wizard of Oz and A Star Is Born", "Judy Garland in Hollywood's Golden Age cinema", "Frances Ethel Gumm, known professionally as Judy Garland" ]
Marlon Brando	Tell me about Marlon Brando.	[ "Marlon Brando, iconic American actor of the 20th century", "Marlon Brando, the actor who starred in The Godfather and A Streetcar Named Desire", "the actor who played Vito Corleone in The Godfather", "Marlon Brando's method acting and Hollywood career", "Brando, two-time Academy Award winning actor and cultural icon" ]
Lauren Bacall	Tell me about Lauren Bacall.	[ "Lauren Bacall, iconic Hollywood actress and model", "Lauren Bacall, the American actress known for her distinctive voice and sultry persona", "Humphrey Bogart's wife and co-star in classic film noir", "the actress who starred in To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep", "Betty Joan Perske, known professionally as Lauren Bacall" ]
Marilyn Monroe	Tell me about Marilyn Monroe.	[ "Marilyn Monroe, American actress and cultural icon", "Marilyn Monroe, the actress who starred in Some Like It Hot and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", "the Hollywood sex symbol born as Norma Jeane Mortenson", "Marilyn Monroe in 1950s American cinema", "the blonde bombshell who became one of the most famous actresses of the 20th century" ]
Sidney Poitier	Tell me about Sidney Poitier.	[ "Sidney Poitier, pioneering Black actor and director", "Sidney Poitier, the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor", "the Bahamian-American actor who starred in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and In the Heat of the Night", "Sir Sidney Poitier, trailblazing actor in Hollywood's civil rights era", "the star of Lilies of the Field who won the 1964 Best Actor Oscar" ]
Shirley Temple	Tell me about Shirley Temple.	[ "Shirley Temple, child star of 1930s Hollywood", "Shirley Temple, the famous child actress who became a U.S. diplomat", "the star of Bright Eyes and other classic children's films", "Shirley Temple Black, actress and diplomat", "Shirley Temple in Golden Age Hollywood cinema" ]
Grace Kelly	Tell me about Grace Kelly.	[ "Grace Kelly, American actress who became Princess of Monaco", "Grace Kelly, the Oscar-winning actress who married Prince Rainier III in 1956", "the Hollywood star who became Princess Grace of Monaco", "Grace Kelly in classic Hollywood cinema and Monaco royalty", "the leading lady of Hitchcock films who retired to marry royalty" ]
Clint Eastwood	Tell me about Clint Eastwood.	[ "Clint Eastwood, American actor and director", "Clint Eastwood, the star of Dirty Harry and Gran Torino", "Clint Eastwood, the actor who played the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's westerns", "the director of Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, and American Sniper", "Clinton Eastwood Jr., iconic Hollywood figure known for both acting and directing" ]
Elizabeth Taylor	Tell me about Elizabeth Taylor.	[ "Elizabeth Taylor, iconic Hollywood actress and humanitarian", "Elizabeth Taylor, the legendary actress known for Cleopatra and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", "Dame Elizabeth Taylor in classic Hollywood cinema", "the violet-eyed star who won two Academy Awards", "Liz Taylor, famous for her eight marriages and film career" ]
Jack Nicholson	Tell me about Jack Nicholson.	[ "Jack Nicholson, American actor and filmmaker", "Jack Nicholson, the actor known for playing the Joker and Jack Torrance in The Shining", "the three-time Academy Award-winning actor Jack Nicholson", "the star of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Chinatown", "Jack Nicholson in American cinema" ]
Robert De Niro	Tell me about Robert De Niro.	[ "Robert De Niro, acclaimed American actor", "Robert De Niro, the actor known for Taxi Driver and Raging Bull", "the star of The Godfather Part II and Goodfellas", "Robert De Niro in American cinema and method acting", "De Niro, two-time Academy Award winning actor" ]
Meryl Streep	Tell me about Meryl Streep.	[ "Meryl Streep, acclaimed American actress", "Meryl Streep, the actress with the most Academy Award nominations in history", "the star of The Devil Wears Prada and Sophie's Choice", "Mary Louise Streep, three-time Oscar-winning actress", "Meryl Streep in American cinema and theater" ]
Tom Hanks	Tell me about Tom Hanks.	[ "Tom Hanks, American actor and filmmaker", "Tom Hanks, the Oscar-winning star of Forrest Gump and Philadelphia", "the actor who played Forrest Gump and won two consecutive Academy Awards", "Tom Hanks in Hollywood cinema and American film", "Thomas Jeffrey Hanks, beloved American actor known for Saving Private Ryan" ]
Marius Petipa	Tell me about Marius Petipa.	[ "Marius Petipa, French-Russian ballet choreographer and master", "Marius Petipa, the choreographer who created The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake", "the father of classical ballet who worked at the Imperial Russian Ballet", "Marius Petipa's contributions to 19th-century ballet in St. Petersburg", "French-born ballet master who choreographed over 50 ballets for the Imperial Theatres" ]
Anna Pavlova	Tell me about Anna Pavlova.	[ "Anna Pavlova, Russian prima ballerina of early 20th century", "Anna Pavlova, the legendary Russian ballerina famous for The Dying Swan", "the prima ballerina who created the iconic role in The Dying Swan", "Anna Pavlova in classical ballet history", "the Russian dancer who toured internationally and inspired the pavlova dessert" ]
Vaslav Nijinsky	Tell me about Vaslav Nijinsky.	[ "Vaslav Nijinsky, legendary Russian ballet dancer and choreographer", "Vaslav Nijinsky, the virtuoso dancer who revolutionized early 20th-century ballet with the Ballets Russes", "Nijinsky's groundbreaking choreography in modernist ballet", "the dancer who starred in The Rite of Spring and L'Après-midi d'un faune", "Vaslav Nijinsky" ]
George Balanchine	Tell me about George Balanchine.	[ "George Balanchine, pioneering 20th century ballet choreographer", "George Balanchine, the Georgian-American choreographer who co-founded New York City Ballet", "the father of American ballet and creator of neoclassical ballet style", "Balanchine's contributions to 20th century dance and choreography", "George Balanchine, choreographer of Apollo and The Nutcracker for NYCB" ]
Margot Fonteyn	Tell me about Margot Fonteyn.	[ "Margot Fonteyn, legendary British prima ballerina", "Margot Fonteyn, the renowned English ballet dancer who partnered with Rudolf Nureyev", "Dame Margot Fonteyn in classical ballet history", "the prima ballerina assoluta of The Royal Ballet", "Margot Fonteyn, born Margaret Hookham" ]
Rudolf Nureyev	Tell me about Rudolf Nureyev.	[ "Rudolf Nureyev, legendary Soviet-born ballet dancer", "Rudolf Nureyev, the ballet dancer who defected from the Soviet Union in 1961", "the principal dancer of the Royal Ballet who partnered with Margot Fonteyn", "Nureyev, one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century", "Rudolf Nureyev in classical ballet and dance history" ]
Mikhail Baryshnikov	Tell me about Mikhail Baryshnikov.	[ "Mikhail Baryshnikov, renowned ballet dancer and choreographer", "Mikhail Baryshnikov, Soviet-American dancer who defected to the West in 1974", "the legendary Russian ballet dancer who became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre", "Baryshnikov, one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century", "Misha Baryshnikov, the Riga-born dancer who starred in White Nights" ]
Izumo no Okuni	Tell me about Izumo no Okuni.	[ "Izumo no Okuni, founder of kabuki theater", "Izumo no Okuni, the Japanese performer who created kabuki in the early 17th century", "Izumo no Okuni in Japanese theater history", "Okuni, the shrine maiden who originated kabuki", "the female performer credited with founding kabuki theater in Kyoto" ]
Isadora Duncan	Tell me about Isadora Duncan.	[ "Isadora Duncan, pioneer of modern dance", "Isadora Duncan, American dancer who revolutionized dance in the early 20th century", "Isadora Duncan in the history of modern dance", "the American dancer known for her free-flowing interpretive dance style", "the dancer who died tragically when her scarf caught in a car wheel" ]
Martha Graham	Tell me about Martha Graham.	[ "Martha Graham, pioneering American modern dancer and choreographer", "Martha Graham, the dancer who created the Graham technique of modern dance", "the founder of the Martha Graham Dance Company", "Graham technique creator and American modern dance pioneer", "Martha Graham, influential 20th-century choreographer who developed contraction and release" ]
Fred Astaire	Tell me about Fred Astaire.	[ "Fred Astaire, legendary American dancer and actor", "Fred Astaire, the dancer and actor famous for partnering with Ginger Rogers in Hollywood musicals", "the star of Top Hat and Swing Time", "Fred Astaire in classic Hollywood musical cinema", "the performer known for his elegant dance routines and partnership with Ginger Rogers" ]
Josephine Baker	Tell me about Josephine Baker.	[ "Josephine Baker, American-French entertainer and civil rights activist", "Josephine Baker, the famous Jazz Age dancer who performed in Paris", "the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture and perform at the Folies Bergère", "Josephine Baker in entertainment history and the French Resistance", "the performer known for her banana skirt dance at the Folies Bergère" ]
Ginger Rogers	Tell me about Ginger Rogers.	[ "Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer", "Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire's most famous dancing partner in 1930s Hollywood musicals", "the Oscar-winning star of Top Hat and Swing Time", "Ginger Rogers in Golden Age Hollywood cinema", "Virginia Katherine McMath, known professionally as Ginger Rogers" ]
Gene Kelly	Tell me about Gene Kelly.	[ "Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor", "Gene Kelly, the star of Singin' in the Rain and An American in Paris", "the choreographer and director famous for his athletic dancing style in Hollywood musicals", "Eugene Curran Kelly, iconic performer of Golden Age Hollywood", "Gene Kelly in American musical cinema" ]
Bob Fosse	Tell me about Bob Fosse.	[ "Bob Fosse, American choreographer and film director", "Bob Fosse, the choreographer known for his distinctive jazz dance style with turned-in knees and jazz hands", "the director of Cabaret and All That Jazz", "Robert Louis Fosse, Broadway choreographer and filmmaker", "Bob Fosse's contributions to American musical theater and cinema" ]
Marx Brothers	Tell me about the Marx Brothers.	[ "Marx Brothers, American comedy team from the early 20th century", "the Marx Brothers, a family comedy act featuring Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and others", "Marx Brothers in vaudeville and classic Hollywood cinema", "Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and the other Marx Brothers", "the comedy team behind Duck Soup and A Night at the Opera" ]
Laurel and Hardy	Tell me about Laurel and Hardy.	[ "Laurel and Hardy, classic comedy duo", "Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, the famous film comedy partnership", "Laurel and Hardy in silent and early sound cinema", "the iconic thin man and fat man comedy team", "Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's slapstick film partnership from the 1920s-1940s" ]
Mae West	Tell me about Mae West.	[ "Mae West, iconic American actress and sex symbol", "Mae West, the Hollywood star known for her witty double entendres and provocative persona", "Mae West in Golden Age Hollywood cinema", "the actress who said 'Why don't you come up sometime and see me?'", "Mary Jane West, 1930s film icon and playwright" ]
Lucille Ball	Tell me about Lucille Ball.	[ "Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian", "Lucille Ball, the star of I Love Lucy", "the pioneering television comedian who played Lucy Ricardo", "Lucille Ball, actress and producer who founded Desilu Productions", "the red-haired comedic actress famous for I Love Lucy" ]
Louis de Funès	Tell me about Louis de Funès.	[ "Louis de Funès, French actor and comedian", "Louis de Funès, the star of French comedy films in the 1960s and 1970s", "the lead actor in the Gendarme film series", "Louis de Funès, known for his roles in La Grande Vadrouille and Rabbi Jacob", "the French comic actor famous for physical comedy and expressive facial gestures" ]
Carol Burnett	Tell me about Carol Burnett.	[ "Carol Burnett, American comedian and actress", "Carol Burnett, the star of The Carol Burnett Show variety series", "the comedian who created the iconic Tarzan yell on her variety show", "Carol Burnett, pioneer of sketch comedy television in the 1960s-70s", "the actress known for her ear tug signature gesture" ]
George Carlin	Tell me about George Carlin.	[ "George Carlin, American stand-up comedian and social critic", "George Carlin, comedian famous for his 'Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television' routine", "the comedian who performed the 'Hippy Dippy Weatherman' character", "George Carlin's influence on American comedy and free speech", "the stand-up comic known for observational humor about language and American culture" ]
Bill Cosby	Tell me about Bill Cosby.	[ "Bill Cosby, American comedian and actor", "Bill Cosby, the comedian who starred in The Cosby Show", "William Henry Cosby Jr., stand-up comedian convicted of sexual assault", "the creator and star of The Cosby Show sitcom", "Cosby, the Fat Albert creator and former America's Dad figure" ]
Richard Pryor	Tell me about Richard Pryor.	[ "Richard Pryor, influential American stand-up comedian", "Richard Pryor, the groundbreaking comedian known for his raw observational humor and social commentary", "Richard Pryor in American comedy and film", "the comedian who starred in Silver Streak and Stir Crazy", "Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor" ]
Monty Python	Tell me about Monty Python.	[ "Monty Python, the British surreal comedy troupe", "the comedy group famous for Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Holy Grail", "Monty Python, the six-member British comedy collective formed in 1969", "the British surreal comedy group in television and film history", "the creators of Monty Python's Flying Circus and Life of Brian" ]
P. T. Barnum	Tell me about P. T. Barnum.	[ "P. T. Barnum, American showman and circus founder", "P. T. Barnum, the founder of Barnum & Bailey Circus", "Phineas Taylor Barnum, 19th-century entertainment entrepreneur", "the showman known for 'The Greatest Show on Earth'", "P. T. Barnum in American entertainment history" ]
Harry Houdini	Tell me about Harry Houdini.	[ "Harry Houdini, famous escape artist and illusionist", "Harry Houdini, the legendary magician known for his death-defying escape acts in the early 20th century", "Harry Houdini in the history of stage magic and illusion", "the Hungarian-American escapologist born Erik Weisz", "Houdini, the magician who escaped from straitjackets and water tanks" ]
Marcel Marceau	Tell me about Marcel Marceau.	[ "Marcel Marceau, French mime artist and actor", "Marcel Marceau, the renowned French mime who created the character Bip the Clown", "the creator of Bip the Clown in mime performance", "Marcel Marceau in modern mime and physical theater", "the French mime artist famous for silent performance art" ]
Johnny Carson	Tell me about Johnny Carson.	[ "Johnny Carson, legendary American television host", "Johnny Carson, the host of The Tonight Show for 30 years", "the King of Late Night television", "Johnny Carson in American broadcasting and entertainment history", "the iconic Tonight Show host who defined late-night comedy from 1962 to 1992" ]
Fred Rogers	Tell me about Fred Rogers.	[ "Fred Rogers, beloved children's television host", "Fred Rogers, the creator and host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", "Mister Rogers, American television personality and Presbyterian minister", "the host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood who taught kindness to generations", "Fred Rogers in American children's educational television" ]
Oprah Winfrey	Tell me about Oprah Winfrey.	[ "Oprah Winfrey, American media mogul and talk show host", "Oprah Winfrey, the host of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 to 2011", "the founder of OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network)", "Oprah Winfrey in American television and media", "the Chicago-based talk show host who became a billionaire media executive" ]
Giotto	Tell me about Giotto.	[ "Giotto di Bondone, Italian painter and architect", "Giotto, the proto-Renaissance Florentine artist who painted the Scrovegni Chapel frescoes", "the father of European painting who broke from Byzantine style in the early 14th century", "Giotto di Bondone in art history", "the medieval Italian master known for naturalistic religious paintings" ]
Jan van Eyck	Tell me about Jan van Eyck.	[ "Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter of the early 15th century", "Jan van Eyck, Early Netherlandish painter known for pioneering oil painting techniques and realistic detail", "the Flemish master who painted the Ghent Altarpiece", "Jan van Eyck in Northern Renaissance art", "the artist who created the Arnolfini Portrait" ]
Masaccio	Tell me about Masaccio.	[ "Masaccio, Italian Renaissance painter of the early 15th century", "Masaccio, pioneering early Renaissance painter known for his use of perspective and naturalism", "Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, known as Masaccio", "the painter of the Brancacci Chapel frescoes", "Masaccio in early Renaissance Florentine art" ]
Sandro Botticelli	Tell me about Sandro Botticelli.	[ "Sandro Botticelli, Italian Renaissance painter", "Sandro Botticelli, the Florentine artist who painted The Birth of Venus and Primavera", "the painter of The Birth of Venus", "Botticelli's art in Renaissance Florence", "Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, known as Botticelli" ]
Hieronymus Bosch	Tell me about Hieronymus Bosch.	[ "Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter of the 15th-16th centuries", "Hieronymus Bosch, Early Netherlandish painter known for fantastical and surreal religious scenes", "the creator of The Garden of Earthly Delights triptych", "Hieronymus Bosch in Northern Renaissance art", "Jheronimus Bosch, Dutch master of bizarre and hellish imagery" ]
Leonardo da Vinci	Tell me about Leonardo da Vinci.	[ "Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath and artist", "Leonardo da Vinci, the painter of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper", "the Renaissance master who painted the Mona Lisa", "Leonardo da Vinci in Renaissance art and science", "the Florentine inventor, artist, and scientist of the 15th-16th centuries" ]
Albrecht Dürer	Tell me about Albrecht Dürer.	[ "Albrecht Dürer, German Renaissance artist and printmaker", "Albrecht Dürer, the painter who created Melencolia I and other masterworks", "Dürer, German artist famous for his detailed engravings and woodcuts", "the Northern Renaissance master who created the Praying Hands", "Albrecht Dürer in Renaissance printmaking and painting" ]
Titian	Tell me about Titian.	[ "Titian, Venetian Renaissance painter", "Titian, the Italian master known for his use of color and portraiture", "Tiziano Vecellio, 16th-century Venetian painter", "the artist who painted Venus of Urbino and Assumption of the Virgin", "Titian in Renaissance art history" ]
Raphael	Tell me about Raphael.	[ "Raphael, Italian Renaissance painter and architect", "Raphael, master painter known for his Madonnas and work in the Vatican", "the Renaissance artist born Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino", "Raphael in High Renaissance art", "the painter of The School of Athens" ]
Hans Holbein the Younger	Tell me about Hans Holbein the Younger.	[ "Hans Holbein the Younger, German Renaissance portrait painter", "Hans Holbein the Younger, the 16th-century artist who painted The Ambassadors", "the German painter who became court artist to Henry VIII", "Holbein the Younger in Northern Renaissance art", "the painter of portrait miniatures and The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb" ]
Pieter Bruegel the Elder	Tell me about Pieter Bruegel the Elder.	[ "Pieter Bruegel the Elder", "Pieter Bruegel the Elder, renowned Netherlandish Renaissance painter of the 16th century", "the Flemish master who painted The Hunters in the Snow and The Tower of Babel", "Pieter Bruegel the Elder in Northern Renaissance art", "the painter of peasant scenes and landscapes who founded the Bruegel dynasty" ]
El Greco	Tell me about El Greco.	[ "El Greco, Renaissance painter born in Crete", "Doménikos Theotokópoulos, the Greek painter who worked in Spain", "El Greco, the artist known for elongated figures and dramatic use of color", "the Cretan-born Spanish Renaissance master famous for View of Toledo", "El Greco's mannerist style in 16th-century Spanish art" ]
Caravaggio	Tell me about Caravaggio.	[ "Caravaggio, Italian Baroque painter of the late 16th century", "Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, the master of dramatic chiaroscuro and tenebrism", "the Italian artist who revolutionized Baroque painting with dramatic light and shadow", "Caravaggio in Baroque art history", "the painter of The Calling of Saint Matthew and Judith Beheading Holofernes" ]

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The Ten Thousand Things Dataset

This dataset contains 10,008 topics with associated prompts and labels, derived from Wikipedia's vital articles.

Dataset Structure

Each record contains:

original_title: The original Wikipedia article title
prompt: A prompt asking about the topic
labels: A list of 5 alternative phrasings/descriptions of the topic

Example

{
  "original_title": "Toshiro Mifune",
  "prompt": "Tell me about Toshiro Mifune.",
  "labels": [
    "Toshiro Mifune, legendary Japanese actor",
    "Toshiro Mifune, the star of Akira Kurosawa's samurai films",
    "the actor who played in Seven Samurai and Rashomon",
    "Toshiro Mifune, Japanese cinema icon known for collaborations with Kurosawa",
    "Mifune, the celebrated performer in classic Japanese cinema"
  ]
}

Usage

Using the datasets library

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("keenanpepper/ten-thousand-things")

# Access the data
for item in dataset['train']:
    print(f"Title: {item['original_title']}")
    print(f"Prompt: {item['prompt']}")
    print(f"Labels: {item['labels']}")
    break

Manual loading

import json

# Load JSONL format
topics = []
with open('ten-thousand-things.jsonl', 'r') as f:
    for line in f:
        topics.append(json.loads(line))

print(f"Loaded {len(topics)} topics")

Dataset Statistics

Total topics: 10,008
Labels per topic: 5
Source: Wikipedia Vital Articles (Level 4)

Use Cases

Training language models to recognize different phrasings of the same topic
Topic modeling and classification
Semantic similarity tasks
Knowledge base construction

License

MIT License

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Size of downloaded dataset files:

4.07 MB

Size of the auto-converted Parquet files:

1.83 MB

Number of rows:

10,008