1st Viscount Slim

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British Army officer Governor-General of Australia field marshal human viscount of the United Kingdom

1st Viscount Slim was a British field marshal and highly respected World War II commander who later served as Governor-General of Australia.

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All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
William Slim	10
1st Viscount Slim canonical	3
Viscount Slim	2
Field Marshal Sir William Slim	1
Sir William Slim	1
William "Bill" Slim	1
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim	1

Statements (42)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British Army officer ⓘ Governor-General of Australia ⓘ field marshal ⓘ human ⓘ viscount of the United Kingdom ⓘ
allegiance	United Kingdom ⓘ
awardReceived	Distinguished Service Order ⓘ Military Cross ⓘ Order of Merit ⓘ Order of the Bath ⓘ Order of the Garter ⓘ
birthDate	1891-08-06 ⓘ
conflict	World War I ⓘ World War II ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom ⓘ
deathDate	1970-12-14 ⓘ
familyName	Slim ⓘ
genre	military history ⓘ
givenName	William ⓘ
honorificPrefix	Field Marshal ⓘ
honorificSuffix	1st Viscount Slim self-link ⓘ
memberOf	House of Lords ⓘ
middleName	Joseph ⓘ
militaryBranch	British Army ⓘ
militaryRank	Field Marshal ⓘ
militaryUnit	Royal Warwickshire Regiment ⓘ
name	William Slim ⓘ surface form: William Joseph Slim
nobleTitle	Viscount in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ⓘ
notableAchievement	Commanded the British Fourteenth Army in Burma during World War II ⓘ Oversaw Allied land operations in South East Asia in the later stages of World War II ⓘ Served as Governor-General of Australia from 1953 to 1960 ⓘ
notableWork	Defeat Into Victory ⓘ
occupation	military writer ⓘ soldier ⓘ
positionHeld	Chief of the General Staff (United Kingdom) ⓘ surface form: Chief of the Imperial General Staff Commander of the Fourteenth Army ⓘ Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia ⓘ Governor-General of Australia ⓘ
theatreOfOperations	Burma campaign ⓘ surface form: Burma Campaign Battle of Gallipoli ⓘ surface form: Gallipoli campaign Middle East theatre of World War II ⓘ
title	1st Viscount Slim self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Viscount Slim

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: 1st Viscount Slim
Description of subject: 1st Viscount Slim was a British field marshal and highly respected World War II commander who later served as Governor-General of Australia.

Referenced by (19)

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

William Slim → title → 1st Viscount Slim ⓘ

Fourteenth Army → notableCommander → 1st Viscount Slim ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Slim

Battle of Imphal → commander → 1st Viscount Slim ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Slim

Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay → hasCommander → 1st Viscount Slim ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Slim

Battle of Kohima → commander → 1st Viscount Slim ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Slim

Field Marshal (British Army) → notableHolder → 1st Viscount Slim ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

Battle of Yenangyaung → commander → 1st Viscount Slim ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Slim

Battle of Deir ez-Zor → commander → 1st Viscount Slim ⓘ

this entity surface form: William "Bill" Slim

Brasenose College, Oxford → hasNotableAlumni → 1st Viscount Slim ⓘ

this entity surface form: Field Marshal Sir William Slim

Operation Thursday → commander → 1st Viscount Slim ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Slim

Bill Slim → honorificSuffix → 1st Viscount Slim ⓘ

Bill Slim → title → 1st Viscount Slim ⓘ

this entity surface form: Viscount Slim

Defeat Into Victory → author → 1st Viscount Slim ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Slim

1st Viscount Slim → honorificSuffix → 1st Viscount Slim self-link ⓘ

1st Viscount Slim → title → 1st Viscount Slim self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Viscount Slim

Commander-in-Chief Allied Land Forces South East Asia → notableCommander → 1st Viscount Slim ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sir William Slim

India Theater → notableCommander → 1st Viscount Slim ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Slim

XV Corps (British India) → notableCommander → 1st Viscount Slim ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Slim

British IV Corps → notableCommander → 1st Viscount Slim ⓘ

this entity surface form: William Slim