Alexander McSween

E405686

historical figure lawyer person

Alexander McSween was a prominent 19th-century lawyer and central figure in the Lincoln County War in New Mexico, whose activities helped shape the history commemorated in the Lincoln Historic District.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Alexander McSween canonical	7
McSween	1

Statements (25)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical figure ⓘ lawyer ⓘ person ⓘ
activeIn	19th century ⓘ Lincoln County, New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ New Mexico Territory ⓘ
associatedWithEvent	Lincoln County War ⓘ
associatedWithPlace	Lincoln Historic District ⓘ
conflict	economic and political rivalries in Lincoln County ⓘ
countryOfActivity	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
era	American Old West ⓘ
familyName	Alexander McSween self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: McSween
fieldOfWork	law ⓘ
givenName	Alexander ⓘ
hasHistoricalSignificance	key participant in frontier conflicts in New Mexico ⓘ
hasImpactOn	development of law-and-order conflicts in Lincoln County ⓘ
hasLegacy	commemoration within the Lincoln Historic District ⓘ
hasRole	central figure in the Lincoln County War ⓘ
influenced	history of the Lincoln Historic District ⓘ
knownFor	legal and business activities in Lincoln County ⓘ
notableFor	role in the Lincoln County War ⓘ
occupation	lawyer ⓘ
partOf	history of Lincoln County, New Mexico ⓘ history of the American frontier ⓘ
region	southwestern United States ⓘ surface form: American Southwest

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: Alexander McSween
Description of subject: Alexander McSween was a prominent 19th-century lawyer and central figure in the Lincoln County War in New Mexico, whose activities helped shape the history commemorated in the Lincoln Historic District.

Referenced by (8)

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

Lincoln Historic District → significantPerson → Alexander McSween ⓘ

Lincoln County War → notableParticipant → Alexander McSween ⓘ

Lincoln County War → hasCasualties → Alexander McSween ⓘ

village of Lincoln, New Mexico → associatedWithPerson → Alexander McSween ⓘ

subject surface form: Lincoln, New Mexico

Old Lincoln County Courthouse → associatedWith → Alexander McSween ⓘ

Tunstall Store → associatedWithPerson → Alexander McSween ⓘ

John Tunstall → businessPartner → Alexander McSween ⓘ

Alexander McSween → familyName → Alexander McSween self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: McSween