Alexander Macomb

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Alexander Macomb was a prominent early 19th-century U.S. Army general who served as Commanding General of the Army and played key roles in conflicts such as the War of 1812 and the Seminole Wars.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Alexander Macomb canonical 4
Alexander Macomb Sr. 1
Alexander Macomb, Jr. 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf United States Army general
human
military officer
awardReceived Congressional Gold Medal
Thanks of Congress
burialPlace Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
surface form: Congressional Cemetery

Washington, D.C.
conflict Second Seminole War
Seminole Wars
War of 1812
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1782-04-03
dateOfDeath 1841-06-25
educatedAt United States Military Academy
endTime 1841
endTimeOfPositionHeld_CommandingGeneralOfTheUnitedStatesArmy 1841
ethnicGroup Scottish American
familyName Macomb, Illinois
surface form: Macomb
father Alexander Macomb self-linksurface differs
surface form: Alexander Macomb Sr.
fieldOfWork military engineering
military strategy
givenName Alexander
hasPartInName Fort Macomb
Macomb County, Michigan
mannerOfDeath natural causes
memberOf U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
surface form: United States Army Corps of Engineers
militaryBranch United States Army
militaryRank Brevet Major General
Major General
namesakeOf Fort Macomb
Macomb County, Michigan
notableAchievement successfully defended Plattsburgh against British invasion in 1814
notableEvent commanded U.S. forces at the Battle of Plattsburgh
served in the Mexican–American border negotiations (early 19th century)
notableWork A Treatise on Martial Law and Courts-Martial
Battle of Plattsburgh
surface form: defense of Plattsburgh
occupation military officer
placeOfBirth Detroit
surface form: Detroit, Michigan

Detroit, Michigan Territory
placeOfDeath Washington, D.C.
positionHeld Chief of the Army
Commanding General of the United States Army
precededBy Jacob Brown
residence New York City
Washington, D.C.
sexOrGender male
spouse Catherine Macomb
startTime 1828
startTimeOfPositionHeld_CommandingGeneralOfTheUnitedStatesArmy 1828
succeededBy Winfield Scott

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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
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- 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: Alexander Macomb
Description of subject: Alexander Macomb was a prominent early 19th-century U.S. Army general who served as Commanding General of the Army and played key roles in conflicts such as the War of 1812 and the Seminole Wars.

Referenced by (7)

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

Second Seminole War commander Alexander Macomb
Battle of Plattsburgh commander Alexander Macomb
Battle of Plattsburgh landCommander Alexander Macomb
Macomb County, Michigan namedAfter Alexander Macomb
this entity surface form: Alexander Macomb, Jr.
Alexander Macomb father Alexander Macomb self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Alexander Macomb Sr.
Lake Champlain campaign notableCommander Alexander Macomb
Fort Macomb namedAfter Alexander Macomb
this entity surface form: General Alexander Macomb