Timothy McVeigh

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Timothy McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist best known for perpetrating the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, one of the deadliest attacks on U.S. soil before 9/11.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Timothy McVeigh canonical 8
McVeigh 1
Timothy James McVeigh 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf domestic terrorist
human
mass murderer
arrestedIn U.S. state of Oklahoma
surface form: Oklahoma, United States
arrestedOn 1995-04-19
causeOfDeath lethal injection
coConspirator Michael Fortier
Terry Nichols
conflict Gulf War
convictedOf conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction
destruction by explosive
murder
use of a destructive device during a crime of violence
use of a weapon of mass destruction
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1968-04-23
dateOfDeath 2001-06-11
dateOfEvent 1995-04-19
education Starpoint High School
ethnicity white American
eventLocation Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
executedAt United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute
explosiveMaterialUsed ammonium nitrate–fuel oil (ANFO)
familyName Timothy McVeigh self-linksurface differs
surface form: McVeigh
fullName Timothy McVeigh self-linksurface differs
surface form: Timothy James McVeigh
gender male
givenName Timothy
graduatedFrom Starpoint High School
heldAt United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX
highlyNotableFor deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history at the time
ideology anti-government extremism
far-right extremism
influencedBy The Turner Diaries
inspiredBy Ruby Ridge standoff
Waco siege
mannerOfDeath execution
militaryBranch United States Army
notableWork Oklahoma City bombing
numberOfVictims 168
occupation soldier
terrorist
penalty death sentence
perpetrated Oklahoma City bombing
placeOfBirth Lockport, New York
surface form: Lockport, New York, United States
placeOfDeath Terre Haute, Indiana
surface form: Terre Haute, Indiana, United States
religion lapsed Roman Catholic
sentencedOn 1997-08-14
trialHeldIn Denver, Colorado, United States
vehicleUsed rental truck bomb

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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: Timothy McVeigh
Description of subject: Timothy McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist best known for perpetrating the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, one of the deadliest attacks on U.S. soil before 9/11.

Referenced by (10)

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

Timothy hasNotableBearer Timothy McVeigh
Timothy McVeigh fullName Timothy McVeigh self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Timothy James McVeigh
Timothy McVeigh familyName Timothy McVeigh self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: McVeigh
Oklahoma City bombing perpetrator Timothy McVeigh
The Turner Diaries referencedBy Timothy McVeigh
Terry Nichols coConspirator Timothy McVeigh
Terry Nichols met Timothy McVeigh
Starpoint High School hasAlumnus Timothy McVeigh
Michael Fortier associatedWith Timothy McVeigh
Michael Fortier testifiedAgainst Timothy McVeigh