Robert Heriot Barclay commanded the British squadron

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Royal Navy officer person

Robert Heriot Barclay commanded the British naval forces during the War of 1812’s Battle of Lake Erie.

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Label Occurrences
Robert Heriot Barclay commanded the British squadron canonical 1

Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Royal Navy officer ⓘ
person ⓘ
allegiance Great Britain ⓘ
birthDate 1786-09-18 ⓘ
causeOfNotability command of British naval forces during the Battle of Lake Erie ⓘ
commanded British naval forces at the Battle of Lake Erie ⓘ
British squadron on Lake Erie ⓘ
conflict War of 1812 ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom ⓘ
deathDate 1837-05-08 ⓘ
familyName Barclay ⓘ
givenName Robert ⓘ
historicalPeriod Napoleonic era ⓘ
surface form: Napoleonic Wars era

War of 1812 era ⓘ
lostTo U.S. Lake Erie Squadron ⓘ
surface form: United States Navy squadron on Lake Erie
militaryBranch Royal Navy ⓘ
militaryRank commander ⓘ
notableEvent defeat at the Battle of Lake Erie ⓘ
notableWork command of British squadron on Lake Erie ⓘ
occupation naval officer ⓘ
opponent Oliver Hazard Perry ⓘ
participatedIn Battle of Lake Erie ⓘ
placeOfBirth Kincardineshire ⓘ
surface form: Kincardineshire, Scotland
placeOfDeath Edinburgh ⓘ
surface form: Edinburgh, Scotland
serviceEndYear 1815 ⓘ
serviceStartYear 1798 ⓘ
side British Empire ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ
theatreOfOperations Lake Erie ⓘ

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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.
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Subject: Robert Heriot Barclay commanded the British squadron
Description of subject: Robert Heriot Barclay commanded the British naval forces during the War of 1812’s Battle of Lake Erie.

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

Battle of Lake Erie → commanderRole → Robert Heriot Barclay commanded the British squadron ⓘ