Air Marshal Sir Basil Embry
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Air Marshal Sir Basil Embry was a distinguished Royal Air Force commander and World War II fighter leader renowned for his daring operational flying and later high-level leadership roles.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Air Chief Marshal Sir Basil Embry | 1 |
| Air Marshal Sir Basil Embry canonical | 1 |
| Air Vice-Marshal Basil Embry | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Air Force officer
ⓘ
World War II veteran ⓘ air marshal ⓘ fighter pilot ⓘ human ⓘ military commander ⓘ |
| allegiance | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| authorOf | Mission Completed ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur
ⓘ
surface form:
Commander of the Legion of Honour
Legion of Merit ⓘ
surface form:
Commander of the Legion of Merit
Croix de Guerre ⓘ
surface form:
Croix de Guerre 1939–1945
Air Force Cross ⓘ
surface form:
Distinguished Flying Cross
Distinguished Service Order ⓘ Distinguished Service Order ⓘ
surface form:
Distinguished Service Order and Two Bars
Order of the Bath ⓘ
surface form:
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Order of Polonia Restituta ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1902-02-28 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Gloucestershire ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War I
ⓘ
surface form:
First World War
World War II ⓘ
surface form:
Second World War
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1977-12-07 ⓘ |
| education |
RAF Cranwell
ⓘ
surface form:
Royal Air Force College Cranwell
|
| familyName | Embry ⓘ |
| genre | military autobiography ⓘ |
| givenName | Basil ⓘ |
| hasMilitaryRole |
fighter leader
ⓘ
operational commander ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Sir ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Air Marshal ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Escape from German captivity in 1940 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
daring low-level attack operations in World War II
ⓘ
high-level leadership in RAF Fighter Command after World War II ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Mission Completed
ⓘ
Operational leadership of RAF 2 Group during World War II ⓘ |
| occupation |
fighter pilot
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ |
| partOf |
Royal Air Force Bomber Command
ⓘ
Royal Air Force Fighter Command ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Dorset ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
No. 10 Group RAF
ⓘ
surface form:
Air Officer Commanding No. 10 Group
No. 2 Group RAF ⓘ
surface form:
Air Officer Commanding No. 2 Group
No. 2 Group RAF ⓘ
surface form:
Air Officer Commanding No. 2 Group RAF
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Fighter Command ⓘ Royal Air Force Fighter Command ⓘ
surface form:
Commander-in-Chief Fighter Command
|
| serviceNumber | Royal Air Force officer number (unknown exact value) ⓘ |
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: Air Marshal Sir Basil Embry Description of subject: Air Marshal Sir Basil Embry was a distinguished Royal Air Force commander and World War II fighter leader renowned for his daring operational flying and later high-level leadership roles.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Air Vice-Marshal Basil Embry
this entity surface form:
Air Chief Marshal Sir Basil Embry