Devil's Den

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Devil's Den is a rocky hill and famous Civil War battlefield site at Gettysburg known for its intense fighting and iconic wartime photographs.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Devil's Den canonical 5
Devil’s Den 2
Devil's Den area 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American Civil War battlefield location
historic site
rocky hill
associatedWithEvent Battle of Gettysburg
associatedWithMilitaryUnit Birney's Division
Hood's Division
attackedBy Army of Northern Virginia
surface form: Confederate Army of Northern Virginia units
battlefieldSector southern part of Gettysburg line
category American Civil War sites in Pennsylvania
Battle of Gettysburg
Landforms of Adams County, Pennsylvania
conflict American Civil War
controlledBy Confederate forces on July 2, 1863
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dateOfEvent July 2, 1863
defendedBy Army of the Potomac
surface form: Union Army of the Potomac units
elevationRelative lower than Little Round Top
geologicalType diabase boulder field
hasAlternativeClassification boulder-strewn hill
hasFeature interpretive markers
parking area nearby
walking trails
hasNameOrigin name predates the Civil War and is associated with local folklore
hasStrategicSignificance overlooked Plum Run Valley
hasViewOf Valley of Death
surface form: Valley of Death (Plum Run Valley)
heritageDesignation part of Gettysburg National Military Park
knownFor iconic Civil War battlefield photographs
intense fighting during the Battle of Gettysburg
locatedIn Adams County, Pennsylvania
Gettysburg National Military Park
United States of America
surface form: United States
managedBy National Park Service
memorializedBy various regimental monuments nearby
nearbyFeature Houck's Ridge
Little Round Top
Plum Run
notablePhotograph "Dead Confederate Sharpshooter in Devil's Den"
ownership United States government
surface form: federal government of the United States
partOf Gettysburg National Military Park
surface form: Gettysburg Battlefield
photographedBy Alexander Gardner
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
state Pennsylvania
terrainFeature large boulders
rocky outcroppings
timePeriodOfSignificance July 1–3, 1863
tourism popular visitor site at Gettysburg
usedAs Confederate artillery position during the battle
visitorAccess open to the public

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: Devil's Den
Description of subject: Devil's Den is a rocky hill and famous Civil War battlefield site at Gettysburg known for its intense fighting and iconic wartime photographs.

Referenced by (8)

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

Little Round Top (nearby) overlooks Devil's Den
subject surface form: Little Round Top
this entity surface form: Devil's Den area
Gettysburg hasLandmark Devil's Den
this entity surface form: Devil’s Den
fighting at Devil’s Den location Devil's Den
subject surface form: Fighting at Devil’s Den
this entity surface form: Devil’s Den
Valley of Death adjacentTo Devil's Den
Plum Run flowsNear Devil's Den
Little Round Top overlooks Devil's Den
Big Round Top nearbyFeature Devil's Den