The George Cross

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civilian decoration decoration of the United Kingdom gallantry award

The George Cross is the United Kingdom’s highest civilian decoration for bravery, awarded for acts of the greatest heroism or most conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme danger.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
George Cross	17
The George Cross canonical	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	civilian decoration ⓘ decoration of the United Kingdom ⓘ gallantry award ⓘ
announcedIn	London Gazette ⓘ
awardedBy	letters patent ⓘ
awardedFor	acts of the greatest heroism ⓘ civilian gallantry ⓘ military gallantry not in the presence of the enemy ⓘ most conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme danger ⓘ
awardingAuthority	monarch of the United Kingdom ⓘ
canBeAwardedCollectively	true ⓘ
canBeAwardedPosthumously	true ⓘ
category	Bravery awards ⓘ British honours system ⓘ surface form: Civil awards and decorations of the United Kingdom
collectiveAwardsKnownAs	George Cross to a collective body ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
eligibility	Commonwealth citizens ⓘ allied nationals ⓘ civilians ⓘ military personnel ⓘ
establishedBy	George VI ⓘ surface form: King George VI
establishedDuring	World War II ⓘ surface form: Second World War
establishedOn	1940-09-24 ⓘ
firstAwardsMade	1941 ⓘ
hasPostNominalEntitlement	true ⓘ
higherAward	none ⓘ
isHighestCivilianDecorationOf	United Kingdom ⓘ
isHighestGallantryAwardFor	civilians in the United Kingdom ⓘ
isOftenGroupedWith	The Victoria Cross ⓘ surface form: Victoria Cross
isPartOf	British honours system ⓘ
languageOfInscription	English ⓘ
material	silver ⓘ
namedAfter	George VI ⓘ surface form: King George VI
notableCollectiveRecipient	Malta ⓘ surface form: Island of Malta National Health Service ⓘ surface form: National Health Service of the United Kingdom Royal Ulster Constabulary ⓘ
obverseDesign	Saint George and the Dragon ⓘ surface form: St George slaying the dragon
obverseInscription	FOR GALLANTRY ⓘ
postNominalLetters	GC ⓘ
rankInOrderOfWear	second only to Victoria Cross ⓘ
recommendationBy	Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom ⓘ surface form: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
relativeRank	equal to Victoria Cross ⓘ
replaced	The Queen's Gallantry Medal ⓘ surface form: Empire Gallantry Medal
reverseFeature	recipient’s name and date engraved ⓘ
ribbonColor	dark blue ⓘ
shape	silver cross ⓘ
status	currently awarded ⓘ
type	non-combat gallantry award ⓘ

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: The George Cross
Description of subject: The George Cross is the United Kingdom’s highest civilian decoration for bravery, awarded for acts of the greatest heroism or most conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme danger.