Oliver Wolcott Sr.

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American Revolutionary War officer Founding Father of the United States Governor of Connecticut human signer of the United States Declaration of Independence

Oliver Wolcott Sr. was an American Founding Father, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary War officer, and later governor of Connecticut.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Oliver Wolcott Sr. canonical	4
Oliver Wolcott	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American Revolutionary War officer ⓘ Founding Father of the United States ⓘ Governor of Connecticut ⓘ human ⓘ signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ⓘ
allegiance	Great Britain ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
birthDate	1726-11-20 ⓘ
birthPlace	Windsor, Connecticut ⓘ surface form: Windsor, Connecticut Colony
burialPlace	East Cemetery, Litchfield, Connecticut ⓘ
child	Oliver Wolcott Jr. ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Great Britain ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
deathDate	1797-12-01 ⓘ
deathPlace	Farmington, Connecticut ⓘ
educatedAt	Yale College ⓘ
endTime	term as Governor of Connecticut ended in 1797 ⓘ
ethnicGroup	English American ⓘ
familyName	Wolcott ⓘ
fullName	Oliver Wolcott Sr. self-link ⓘ
givenName	Oliver ⓘ
graduationYear	1747 ⓘ
memberOf	Continental Congress ⓘ
militaryRank	major general ⓘ
notableFor	being one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence from Connecticut ⓘ
notableWork	leadership in the Connecticut militia during the American Revolutionary War ⓘ signing the United States Declaration of Independence ⓘ
occupation	judge ⓘ military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ
parent	Roger Wolcott (grandfather) ⓘ surface form: Roger Wolcott
partOf	American Revolutionary era ⓘ surface form: American Revolution
positionHeld	Governor of Connecticut ⓘ Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut ⓘ Sheriff of Litchfield County, Connecticut ⓘ judge of the court of common pleas in Litchfield County ⓘ
precededBy	Samuel Huntington as Governor of Connecticut ⓘ
religion	Congregationalism ⓘ
represented	Connecticut ⓘ
residence	Litchfield, Connecticut, United States ⓘ surface form: Litchfield, Connecticut
servedIn	Connecticut militia ⓘ Continental Army ⓘ
signatoryTo	Articles of Confederation ⓘ American Declaration of Independence ⓘ surface form: United States Declaration of Independence
spouse	Laura Collins Wolcott ⓘ
startTime	term as Governor of Connecticut began in 1796 ⓘ
succeededBy	Jonathan Trumbull Jr. as Governor of Connecticut ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

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.

Input

Subject: Oliver Wolcott Sr.
Description of subject: Oliver Wolcott Sr. was an American Founding Father, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary War officer, and later governor of Connecticut.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Litchfield, Connecticut, United States → hasNotableResident → Oliver Wolcott Sr. ⓘ

subject surface form: Litchfield, Connecticut

Oliver Wolcott Jr. → father → Oliver Wolcott Sr. ⓘ

Oliver Wolcott Sr. → fullName → Oliver Wolcott Sr. self-link ⓘ

Wolcott, New Haven County, Connecticut → namedAfter → Oliver Wolcott Sr. ⓘ

this entity surface form: Oliver Wolcott

Roger Wolcott (grandfather) → isAncestorOf → Oliver Wolcott Sr. ⓘ