General Officer Commanding 1st Airborne Division

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The General Officer Commanding 1st Airborne Division was the senior British Army commander responsible for leading the 1st Airborne Division, notably during major airborne operations of the Second World War.

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Label Occurrences
General Officer Commanding 1st Airborne Division canonical 2

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf army command
military position
appliesToUnit 1st Airborne Division
associatedWith British airborne doctrine
British airborne operations in World War II
airborne assault operations
commandResponsibility air-landing units
parachute infantry units
support and service units of 1st Airborne Division
commandStructure divisional command
commandType combat formation command
conflict World War II
surface form: Second World War
country United Kingdom
garrisonedForce 1st Airborne Division
hasDuty coordinating with air forces for airborne drops
ensuring combat readiness of airborne troops
leading airborne operations
planning airborne operations
historicalContext European theatre of World War II
languageOfTitle English
militaryBranch land forces
notableFor command during major airborne operations of the Second World War
operationalLevel operational
tactical
partOf British Army
reportsTo army group commander
corps commander
higher army command
responsibleFor administration of 1st Airborne Division
operational command of 1st Airborne Division
training of 1st Airborne Division
role senior commander of 1st Airborne Division
scopeOfCommand division-level formation
selectionCriteria senior professional officer of the British Army
serviceBranch British Army
airborne forces
shortForm British 1st Airborne Division
surface form: GOC 1st Airborne Division
timePeriod 20th century
World War II era
typeOfCommand field command
typicalRank major general

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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: General Officer Commanding 1st Airborne Division
Description of subject: The General Officer Commanding 1st Airborne Division was the senior British Army commander responsible for leading the 1st Airborne Division, notably during major airborne operations of the Second World War.

Referenced by (2)

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

Roy Urquhart positionHeld General Officer Commanding 1st Airborne Division
Major-General Roy Urquhart positionHeld General Officer Commanding 1st Airborne Division
subject surface form: Roy Urquhart