John Schofield

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Commanding General of the United States Army Union Army general United States Secretary of War human

John Schofield was a Union Army general during the American Civil War who later served as U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
John M. Schofield	7
John McAllister Schofield	1
John Schofield canonical	1

Statements (29)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Commanding General of the United States Army ⓘ Union Army general ⓘ United States Secretary of War ⓘ human ⓘ
conflict	American Civil War ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
employer	United States Army ⓘ United States government ⓘ
familyName	Schofield Barracks ⓘ surface form: Schofield
fieldOfWork	military leadership ⓘ war administration ⓘ
givenName	John ⓘ
hasRole	army commander ⓘ cabinet secretary ⓘ general ⓘ
memberOf	United States Army ⓘ
militaryBranch	Union Army ⓘ
notableFor	commanding Union forces during the American Civil War ⓘ serving as Commanding General of the U.S. Army ⓘ serving as U.S. Secretary of War ⓘ
notableWork	leadership as Commanding General of the U.S. Army ⓘ service as a Union general in the American Civil War ⓘ tenure as U.S. Secretary of War ⓘ
occupation	military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ
positionHeld	Commanding General of the United States Army ⓘ United States Army general ⓘ Secretary of War ⓘ surface form: United States Secretary of War
sexOrGender	male ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

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: John Schofield
Description of subject: John Schofield was a Union Army general during the American Civil War who later served as U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army.