Jefferson C. Davis

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Jefferson C. Davis was a controversial Union Army general during the American Civil War and later a U.S. Army officer involved in various Indian Wars in the American West.

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Label Occurrences
Jefferson C. Davis canonical 2

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Union Army general
United States Army officer
human
allegiance Union
causeOfNotability controversial killing of a fellow Union general in 1862
conflict American Civil War
United States–Native American wars
surface form: American Indian Wars
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
familyName Davis
givenName Jefferson
hasEthnicGroup European American
languageSpoken English
laterWork commander in U.S. Army operations against Native Americans in the West
militaryBranch Union Army
United States Army
militaryRank brevet major general
brigadier general
notableFor killing of Union General William "Bull" Nelson
service in post–Civil War campaigns in the American West
occupation military officer
soldier
participatedIn Battle of Chickamauga
Battle of Pea Ridge
Battle of Stones River
Sherman’s March to the Sea
partOf United States Army officer corps during the 19th century
positionHeld division commander in the Union Army
servedIn Army of the Cumberland
Army of the Ohio
sexOrGender male

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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: Jefferson C. Davis
Description of subject: Jefferson C. Davis was a controversial Union Army general during the American Civil War and later a U.S. Army officer involved in various Indian Wars in the American West.

Referenced by (2)

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

Modoc War hasCommander Jefferson C. Davis
Battle of Averasborough commander Jefferson C. Davis