Wesley Merritt

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United States Army general human

Wesley Merritt was a United States Army general who led American forces in the Spanish–American War and briefly served as the first American military governor of the Philippines.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Wesley Merritt canonical	8

Statements (36)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States Army general ⓘ human ⓘ
allegiance	Union Army ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
awardReceived	Civil War campaign medals ⓘ
conflict	American Civil War ⓘ United States–Native American wars ⓘ surface form: Indian Wars Spanish–American War ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
educatedAt	United States Military Academy ⓘ
familyName	Merritt ⓘ
fieldOfWork	military leadership ⓘ
givenName	Wesley ⓘ
militaryBranch	United States Army ⓘ
militaryRank	brigadier general ⓘ major general ⓘ
notableCommanderOf	United States Eighth Army ⓘ surface form: U.S. Eighth Army Corps cavalry units in the Army of the Potomac ⓘ
notableEvent	led American forces in the capture of Manila in 1898 ⓘ oversaw early phase of American occupation of the Philippines ⓘ
notableWork	command of U.S. forces in the Philippines during the Spanish–American War ⓘ service as first American military governor of the Philippines ⓘ
occupation	military officer ⓘ
participantIn	Appomattox Campaign ⓘ Battle of Five Forks ⓘ Battle of Gettysburg ⓘ Capture of Manila (1898) ⓘ surface form: Battle of Manila (1898) Battle of the Wilderness ⓘ
positionHeld	Superintendent of the United States Military Academy ⓘ commander of the Department of the East ⓘ commander of the Department of the Missouri ⓘ first American military governor of the Philippines ⓘ military governor of the Philippines ⓘ
residence	United States of America ⓘ
serviceNumberOrID	Union Army officer during the American Civil War ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Wesley Merritt
Description of subject: Wesley Merritt was a United States Army general who led American forces in the Spanish–American War and briefly served as the first American military governor of the Philippines.

Referenced by (8)

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

Governor-General of the Philippines → officeHolder → Wesley Merritt ⓘ

Military Governor of the Philippines → firstHolder → Wesley Merritt ⓘ

Military Governor of the Philippines → officeHolder → Wesley Merritt ⓘ

Capture of Manila (1898) → commander → Wesley Merritt ⓘ

Battle of Dinwiddie Court House → commander → Wesley Merritt ⓘ

U.S. Military Government of the Philippine Islands → firstLeader → Wesley Merritt ⓘ

U.S. Military Government of the Philippine Islands → leader → Wesley Merritt ⓘ

Elwell Stephen Otis → replaced → Wesley Merritt ⓘ