August Willich

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human

August Willich was a 19th-century German revolutionary and former Prussian officer who became a prominent communist activist and later a Union general in the American Civil War.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
August Willich canonical	2

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ
allegiance	Prussia ⓘ Union ⓘ
burialPlace	Elmwood Cemetery, St. Marys, Ohio ⓘ
causeOfDeath	stroke ⓘ
citizenship	Prussia ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
countryOfBirth	Prussia ⓘ
countryOfDeath	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1810-11-19 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1878-01-22 ⓘ
educatedAt	Prussian military academy ⓘ surface form: Prussian Cadet Corps
familyName	Willich ⓘ
givenName	August ⓘ
ideology	communism ⓘ republicanism ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ German ⓘ
militaryBranch	Prussian Army ⓘ Union Army ⓘ
militaryRank	brigadier general ⓘ
movement	communism ⓘ revolutionary socialism ⓘ
name	August Willich self-link ⓘ
notableFor	being a former Prussian officer turned communist revolutionary ⓘ being a radical opponent of Karl Marx within the communist movement ⓘ
notableWork	command of German regiments in the Union Army ⓘ leadership of German revolutionary forces in 1848–1849 ⓘ
occupation	Union Army general ⓘ communist activist ⓘ military officer ⓘ newspaper editor ⓘ revolutionary ⓘ trade unionist ⓘ
participantIn	American Civil War ⓘ Atlanta Campaign ⓘ surface form: Atlanta campaign Battle of Chickamauga ⓘ Battle of Shiloh ⓘ Battle of Stones River ⓘ Revolutions of 1848 in the German states ⓘ surface form: German revolutions of 1848–1849 1848 revolutions ⓘ surface form: Revolutions of 1848
placeOfBirth	Braunsberg ⓘ Prussia ⓘ surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
placeOfDeath	St. Marys, Ohio ⓘ
positionHeld	brigade commander in the Army of the Cumberland ⓘ commander of the 32nd Indiana Infantry Regiment ⓘ officer in the Prussian Army ⓘ
residence	Cincinnati, Ohio, United States ⓘ surface form: Cincinnati, Ohio Indiana ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

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: August Willich
Description of subject: August Willich was a 19th-century German revolutionary and former Prussian officer who became a prominent communist activist and later a Union general in the American Civil War.

Referenced by (2)

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

Communist League → notableMember → August Willich ⓘ

August Willich → name → August Willich self-link ⓘ