General Joseph F. Dunford Jr.

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General Joseph F. Dunford Jr. is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and held several key command roles in major U.S. and NATO operations.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
General Joseph F. Dunford Jr. canonical 2
Joseph Dunford 1

Statements (59)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
United States Marine Corps general
four-star general
human
appointedBy Barack Obama
awardReceived Bronze Star Medal
Defense Distinguished Service Medal
Defense Superior Service Medal
Legion of Merit
Meritorious Service Medal
surface form: Meritorious Service Medal (United States)

Navy Distinguished Service Medal
Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal
Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal
birthDate 1955-12-08
birthPlace Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
confirmedBy United States Senate
conflict Global War on Terrorism
Iraq War
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
surface form: War in Afghanistan
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
educatedAt Georgetown University
Marine Corps University
surface form: Marine Corps Command and Staff College

Saint Michael's College
United States Army War College
endTime Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff term 2019-09-30
Commandant of the Marine Corps term 2015-09-24
familyName Dunford
givenName Joseph
hasChild three children
honorificSuffix Jr.
memberOf Joint Chiefs of Staff
militaryBranch United States Marine Corps
militaryRank General
four-star general
militaryUnit 1st Marine Division (United States)
surface form: 1st Marine Division

5th Marine Regiment
Headquarters Marine Corps
surface form: Marine Corps Headquarters
nickname Fighting Joe
nominatedBy Barack Obama
notableWork Leadership of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan
Service as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
occupation United States Marine Corps general
military officer
positionHeld 19th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
36th Commandant of the Marine Corps
Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
Commander of U.S. Forces – Afghanistan
Commander of the International Security Assistance Force
Commander, I Marine Expeditionary Force
Commander, U.S. Marine Forces Central Command
Platoon commander, 1st Marine Division
religion Roman Catholicism
residence Virginia
surface form: Virginia, United States
retirementDate 2019-11-01
serviceNumber United States Marine Corps officer
sexOrGender male
spouse Ellyn Dunford
startTime Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff term 2015-10-01
Commandant of the Marine Corps term 2014-10-17

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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: General Joseph F. Dunford Jr.
Description of subject: General Joseph F. Dunford Jr. is a retired United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and held several key command roles in major U.S. and NATO operations.

Referenced by (3)

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

International Security Assistance Force notableCommander General Joseph F. Dunford Jr.
Commander, U.S. Forces – Afghanistan notableOfficeHolder General Joseph F. Dunford Jr.
Mark Milley predecessor General Joseph F. Dunford Jr.
this entity surface form: Joseph Dunford