Tom Wintringham

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Tom Wintringham was a British soldier, military historian, and left-wing politician best known for commanding the British Battalion of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and later helping to found the Home Guard in World War II.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tom Wintringham canonical 3

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf British person
human
journalist
military historian
politician
soldier
writer
causeOfDeath stroke
conflict Spanish Civil War
World War I
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
dateOfBirth 1898-05-15
dateOfDeath 1949-08-16
educatedAt Balliol College, Oxford
Gresham's School
familyName Wintringham
founded Home Guard training school at Osterley Park
givenName Tom
ideology communism
socialism
knownFor advocacy for irregular warfare and guerrilla tactics
commanding the British Battalion of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War
role in the creation of the British Home Guard during World War II
languageSpoken English
memberOf Common Wealth Party
Communist Party of Great Britain
International Brigades
militaryBranch British Army
name Tom Wintringham self-link
notableWork English Captain
How to Reform the Army
Mutiny
New Ways of War
occupation journalist
military historian
politician
soldier
writer
placeOfBirth England
Grimsby
Lincolnshire
placeOfDeath England
London, England
surface form: London
politicalAlignment left-wing
positionHeld commander of the British Battalion of the International Brigades
sexOrGender male
spouse Kitty Bowler
workLocation United Kingdom

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: Tom Wintringham
Description of subject: Tom Wintringham was a British soldier, military historian, and left-wing politician best known for commanding the British Battalion of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and later helping to found the Home Guard in World War II.

Referenced by (3)

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

British Battalion hasNotableMember Tom Wintringham
Gresham's School hasNotableAlumnus Tom Wintringham
Tom Wintringham name Tom Wintringham self-link