Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.

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American politician Confederate States Army general governor human

Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War who later served as the 30th governor of Kentucky.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Simon Bolivar Buckner	7
Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. canonical	3
Simon B. Buckner	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American politician ⓘ Confederate States Army general ⓘ governor ⓘ human ⓘ
allegiance	Confederate States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States of America (before secession)
birthDate	1823-04-01 ⓘ
birthPlace	Hart County, Kentucky ⓘ Kentucky ⓘ
burialPlace	Frankfort Cemetery ⓘ Frankfort, Kentucky ⓘ
conflict	American Civil War ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
deathDate	1914-01-08 ⓘ
deathPlace	Hart County, Kentucky ⓘ Kentucky ⓘ
educatedAt	United States Military Academy ⓘ
ethnicGroup	White American ⓘ
familyName	Buckner ⓘ
fatherOf	Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. ⓘ
givenName	Simon ⓘ
heldRank	brigadier general (Confederate States Army) ⓘ Lieutenant General (Confederate States Army) ⓘ surface form: lieutenant general (Confederate States Army) major general (Confederate States Army) ⓘ
honorificPrefix	General ⓘ Governor ⓘ
memberOfPoliticalParty	Democratic Party ⓘ
middleName	Simón Bolívar ⓘ surface form: Bolivar
militaryBranch	Confederate States Army ⓘ
militaryRank	lieutenant general ⓘ
nativeLanguage	English ⓘ
notableWork	service as Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War ⓘ tenure as 30th Governor of Kentucky ⓘ
occupation	military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ soldier ⓘ
participatedIn	Fort Donelson campaign ⓘ surface form: Battle of Fort Donelson
positionHeld	30th Governor of Kentucky ⓘ Confederate general officer ⓘ Governor of Kentucky ⓘ
religion	Presbyterianism ⓘ
residence	Kentucky ⓘ
servedIn	United States Army ⓘ surface form: United States Army (pre–Civil War)
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
spouse	Delia Hayes Claiborne ⓘ Mary Jane Kingsbury ⓘ
surrenderedTo	Fort Donelson campaign ⓘ surface form: Ulysses S. Grant at Fort Donelson

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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: Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.
Description of subject: Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War who later served as the 30th governor of Kentucky.