Henri Giraud

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Henri Giraud was a French general and key Free French leader during World War II who briefly co-led the French Committee of National Liberation alongside Charles de Gaulle.

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Label Occurrences
Henri Giraud canonical 7

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf French general
World War II military personnel
human
military officer
alliedWith Allies of World War II
surface form: Allied powers

Charles de Gaulle
United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States
awardReceived Légion d'honneur
coLed Free France
surface form: French Committee of National Liberation
conflict World War I
World War II
countryOfCitizenship France
describedAs key Free French leader during World War II
escapeFrom German captivity in World War II
familyName Giraud
givenName Henri
ideology French nationalism
languageSpoken French
memberOf Free French Forces
surface form: Free French forces

French Army
militaryBranch French Army
militaryRank general
militaryStatus prisoner of war of Germany during World War II
notableEvent co-presidency of the French Committee of National Liberation in Algiers
notableFor escape from German captivity during World War II
rivalry and political tension with Charles de Gaulle
role in aligning French North Africa with the Allies
notableWork leadership of Free French forces in North Africa
occupation military officer
opposedBy Nazi Germany
Vichy
surface form: Vichy regime
participantIn French campaign of 1940
North African campaign
World War II
politicalAlignment Free France
surface form: Free French movement
positionHeld Commander-in-Chief of French forces in North Africa
co-leader of the French Committee of National Liberation
residence French North Africa
roleIn transition of French North Africa from Vichy to Free French control
sexOrGender male
sharesPowerWith Charles de Gaulle

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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: Henri Giraud
Description of subject: Henri Giraud was a French general and key Free French leader during World War II who briefly co-led the French Committee of National Liberation alongside Charles de Gaulle.

Referenced by (7)

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

Operation Torch commander Henri Giraud
FFL notableCommander Henri Giraud
subject surface form: Free French Forces
Giraud hasNotableBearer Henri Giraud
Anfa Conference hasParticipant Henri Giraud
Anfa Hotel associatedWith Henri Giraud
Anfa Hotel visitedBy Henri Giraud