Robert E. Cushman Jr.

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Robert E. Cushman Jr. was a United States Marine Corps general who played a prominent leadership role in the Vietnam War and later served as the 25th Commandant of the Marine Corps.

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Label Occurrences
Robert E. Cushman Jr. canonical 1

Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf United States Marine Corps general
human
allegiance United States of America
awardReceived Bronze Star Medal
Legion of Merit
Navy Cross NERFINISHED
Navy Distinguished Service Medal NERFINISHED
Purple Heart
conflict Korean War
Vietnam War
World War II
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1914-12-24
dateOfDeath 1985-01-02
educatedAt United States Naval Academy
employer United States Department of the Navy NERFINISHED
endTime 1975-06-30
familyName Cushman NERFINISHED
givenName Robert
hasRole senior military leader in the Vietnam War
honorificSuffix Jr.
militaryBranch United States Marine Corps
militaryRank General
militaryUnit 1st Marine Division NERFINISHED
III Marine Amphibious Force NERFINISHED
notableWork leadership of III Marine Amphibious Force in Vietnam
occupation military officer
partOf United States Armed Forces leadership during Vietnam War NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth St. Paul, Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Fort Lewis, Washington, United States NERFINISHED
positionHeld 25th Commandant of the Marine Corps
Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
serviceNumber O-00579
sexOrGender male
startTime 1972-01-01

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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: Robert E. Cushman Jr.
Description of subject: Robert E. Cushman Jr. was a United States Marine Corps general who played a prominent leadership role in the Vietnam War and later served as the 25th Commandant of the Marine Corps.

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

Battle of Khe Sanh commander Robert E. Cushman Jr.