Middle Don offensive

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World War II battle military offensive

The Middle Don offensive was a major Soviet Red Army operation during the winter of 1942–1943 that helped shatter Axis forces on the Eastern Front and contributed to the broader turning of the tide against Germany in World War II.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Middle Don offensive canonical	1
Middle Don offensive operation	1
Middle Don operation	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World War II battle ⓘ military offensive ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Middle Don offensive ⓘ surface form: Middle Don offensive operation Middle Don offensive ⓘ surface form: Middle Don operation
belligerent	Hungary ⓘ Kingdom of Italy ⓘ Nazi Germany ⓘ Romania ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ
combatantCommander	Fyodor Tolbukhin ⓘ surface form: Fedor Tolbukhin Filipp Golikov ⓘ Giovanni Messe ⓘ Gusztáv Jány ⓘ surface form: Gustav Jány Italo Gariboldi ⓘ László Csatay ⓘ Nikolai Vatutin ⓘ Petre Dumitrescu ⓘ
conflict	Eastern Front ⓘ surface form: Eastern Front (World War II)
country	Soviet Union ⓘ
effect	contributed to turning of the tide against Germany on Eastern Front ⓘ facilitated Soviet advances in southern Russia ⓘ weakened Axis front between Voronezh and Rostov ⓘ
endTime	1943-02-06 ⓘ
followedBy	Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh offensive ⓘ Voronezh–Kastornoye offensive ⓘ
location	Don River ⓘ middle Don River ⓘ surface form: Middle Don River region Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh area ⓘ Soviet Voronezh Front ⓘ surface form: Voronezh Front sector southwestern Russia ⓘ
objective	to collapse the Italian 8th Army ⓘ to destroy Axis forces on the Middle Don ⓘ to encircle and destroy Hungarian 2nd Army units ⓘ
opponent	Axis powers ⓘ
outcome	Axis strategic setback on Eastern Front ⓘ destruction of large parts of Italian 8th Army ⓘ heavy losses for Hungarian 2nd Army ⓘ
participant	Soviet 18th Separate Rifle Corps ⓘ surface form: 18th Separate Rifle Corps 3rd Guards Army ⓘ 40th Army ⓘ surface form: 40th Army (Soviet Union) Hungarian 2nd Army ⓘ Italian 8th Army ⓘ Romanian 3rd Army ⓘ Southwestern Front ⓘ Soviet Voronezh Front ⓘ surface form: Voronezh Front
partOf	Eastern Front ⓘ surface form: Eastern Front (World War II) Soviet winter counteroffensives of 1942–1943 ⓘ surface form: Red Army winter counteroffensives 1942–1943 Soviet winter counteroffensives of 1942–1943 ⓘ surface form: Soviet winter campaign of 1942–1943
result	Soviet victory ⓘ
startTime	1942-12-16 ⓘ
temporalRelation	concurrent with Battle of Stalingrad ⓘ

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: Middle Don offensive
Description of subject: The Middle Don offensive was a major Soviet Red Army operation during the winter of 1942–1943 that helped shatter Axis forces on the Eastern Front and contributed to the broader turning of the tide against Germany in World War II.

Referenced by (3)

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

Soviet winter counteroffensives of 1942–1943 → hasPart → Middle Don offensive ⓘ

Middle Don offensive → alsoKnownAs → Middle Don offensive ⓘ

this entity surface form: Middle Don operation

Middle Don offensive → alsoKnownAs → Middle Don offensive ⓘ

this entity surface form: Middle Don offensive operation