Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
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Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. canonical | 6 |
| Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T36784 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. Context triple: [Battle of Okinawa, commander, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.]
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Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee was a prominent 19th-century American military officer best known as the leading Confederate general during the American Civil War.
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Alexander Vandegrift
Alexander Vandegrift was a highly decorated U.S. Marine Corps general best known for leading the 1st Marine Division to victory in the Guadalcanal Campaign during World War II and later serving as Commandant of the Marine Corps.
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John Taylor Johnston
John Taylor Johnston was a 19th-century American businessman and arts patron who served as the first president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and played a key role in its early development.
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Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur was a prominent American five-star general who played a leading role in the Pacific theater during World War II and later oversaw the Allied occupation of Japan.
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E.
George Cockburn
George Cockburn was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for leading raids along the American coast during the War of 1812, including the burning of Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. Target entity description: Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
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A.
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee was a prominent 19th-century American military officer best known as the leading Confederate general during the American Civil War.
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B.
Alexander Vandegrift
Alexander Vandegrift was a highly decorated U.S. Marine Corps general best known for leading the 1st Marine Division to victory in the Guadalcanal Campaign during World War II and later serving as Commandant of the Marine Corps.
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C.
John Taylor Johnston
John Taylor Johnston was a 19th-century American businessman and arts patron who served as the first president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and played a key role in its early development.
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D.
Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur was a prominent American five-star general who played a leading role in the Pacific theater during World War II and later oversaw the Allied occupation of Japan.
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E.
George Cockburn
George Cockburn was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for leading raids along the American coast during the War of 1812, including the burning of Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army officer
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general ⓘ human ⓘ military leader ⓘ |
| allegiance |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| awardReceived |
Army Distinguished Service Medal
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Distinguished Service Cross ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ Purple Heart ⓘ Silver Star ⓘ |
| battle | Battle of Okinawa ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | enemy fire ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathCause | artillery fire ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Okinawa Island
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surface form:
Okinawa
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| educatedAt | United States Military Academy ⓘ |
| familyName | Buckner ⓘ |
| father | Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
ground warfare
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military strategy ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Simon ⓘ |
| hasPart |
U.S. Army ground forces under Tenth Army command
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U.S. Marine Corps units under Tenth Army command ⓘ |
| honorificSuffix | Jr. ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRankAtDeath | lieutenant general ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire in World War II
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commanding U.S. Tenth Army in the Pacific during World War II ⓘ commanding U.S. forces during the Battle of Okinawa ⓘ joint Army-Marine command structure on Okinawa ⓘ senior U.S. ground commander in the Battle of Okinawa ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of Tenth Army in the Pacific ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Armed Forces in World War II ⓘ |
| positionHeld | commander of the Tenth Army ⓘ |
| rank | lieutenant general ⓘ |
| serviceNumber | O-2559 ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
Pacific War
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surface form:
Pacific Theater
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How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. Description of subject: Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
Referenced by (7)
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