Assertion: banjo | /r/CapableOf | begin life
Facets:
value: in working-class concert halls
type: LOCATION
value: in 2011
type: TEMPORAL
value: in minstrel shows
type: LOCATION
value: as a smartphone app
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Banjo began life in 2011 as a smartphone app that allowed users to find friends who were nearby, shifted its focus to sorting data to detect events in real time in 2013 and launched a new product in 2015 to help alert media outlets about situations that warranted news coverage.
text: Believe it or not, just over 100 years ago the banjo was a mostly urban phenomenon, which started its life in working-class concert halls and minstrel shows, briefly flirted with the wealthy establishment and the world of the parlour, and led the way in the Ragtime phenomenon.