Grave

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Grave is a Dutch town in the province of North Brabant, historically notable for its strategic river crossing and well-preserved medieval fortifications.

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Label Occurrences
Grave canonical 27

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf municipality
town
areaCode 0486
capturedBy Allied forces in September 1944
coordinateLocation 51.759°N 5.738°E
country Netherlands
crossingCapturedBy 82nd Airborne Division (US) in 1944
formerMunicipalityOf Escharen
Gassel
North Brabant
surface form: Velp (North Brabant)
hasCityRights yes
hasCityRightsSince 1233
hasCulturalEvent local carnival celebrations
hasEconomicActivity small-scale services
tourism
hasFeature bastions
city walls remnants
historic town center
medieval fortifications
moats
strategic river crossing
hasHeritageDesignation protected cityscape
hasLandmark Canons of Grave (artillery pieces)
Hampoort city gate
John S. Thompsonbrug
St. Elisabeth Church
hasMunicipalStatusChange merged into Land van Cuijk municipality in 2022
hasMuseum Graafs Museum
hasPopulation approximately 8700 (town)
hasPopulationAsOf around 2021
historicallyPartOf Duchy of Brabant
Meierij van ’s-Hertogenbosch
historicalRegion Land van Cuijk region
surface form: Land van Cuijk
localDialect Brabants (East Brabantian dialect)
locatedIn North Brabant
locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity province of North Brabant
locatedInTimeZone CET
locatedOnRiver Maas
Meuse
officialLanguage Dutch
partOf Land van Cuijk region
postalCode 5361
roadAccess N321
N324
significantEvent liberation during Operation Market Garden
siege of Grave (1674) in the Franco-Dutch War
siege of Grave (1794) in the French Revolutionary Wars
usesDaylightSavingTime CEST

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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: Grave
Description of subject: Grave is a Dutch town in the province of North Brabant, historically notable for its strategic river crossing and well-preserved medieval fortifications.

Referenced by (27)

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

Canons of Grave (artillery pieces) locatedIn Grave
subject surface form: Canons of Grave
siege of Grave (1674) in the Franco-Dutch War hasLocation Grave
subject surface form: siege of Grave (1674)
siege of Grave (1794) in the French Revolutionary Wars location Grave
subject surface form: siege of Grave (1794)
siege of Grave (1794) in the French Revolutionary Wars appliesToJurisdiction Grave
subject surface form: siege of Grave (1794)
Gassel mergedInto Grave
Gassel locatedNear Grave
Mill locatedNear Grave
Bridge at Grave locatedIn Grave
Oss borderedBy Grave