Battle of Kolin

E475672

The Battle of Kolin was a major 1757 engagement of the Seven Years' War in which Austrian forces under Field Marshal Leopold von Daun defeated Frederick the Great's Prussian army in Bohemia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Battle of Kolin canonical 1

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf battle
military engagement
alsoKnownAs Battle of Kolín NERFINISHED
armedForce Austrian Army NERFINISHED
Prussian Army NERFINISHED
belligerent Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
surface form: Habsburg Monarchy

Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
campaign Prussian invasion of Bohemia (1757) NERFINISHED
casualtiesAndLosses Prussian casualties significantly higher than Austrian casualties
combatantStrength Austrian army approximately 50,000–54,000 men
Prussian army approximately 32,000–35,000 men
commander Frederick II of Prussia NERFINISHED
Frederick the Great NERFINISHED
Leopold Joseph von Daun NERFINISHED
conflict Seven Years' War
countryInvolved Austria NERFINISHED
Prussia NERFINISHED
date 18 June 1757
era 18th century
followedBy Prussian retreat from Bohemia
location Bohemia NERFINISHED
near Kolín
monarchDuringEvent Frederick II of Prussia NERFINISHED
Maria Theresa NERFINISHED
notableFeature first major battlefield defeat of Frederick the Great
opponentCommander Frederick the Great NERFINISHED
Leopold von Daun NERFINISHED
partOf Third Silesian War NERFINISHED
precededBy Battle of Prague (1757) NERFINISHED
presentDayLocation Czech Republic NERFINISHED
relatedEvent Siege of Prague (1757) NERFINISHED
relatedPerson Maria Theresa of Austria NERFINISHED
result Austrian victory
significance boosted Austrian morale in 1757
checked Prussian advance into Habsburg territories
strategicOutcome Prussian withdrawal from Bohemia
end of Frederick the Great's 1757 Bohemian campaign
tacticalCharacteristic Austrian use of strong defensive terrain and reserves
frontal Prussian attacks against a strong Austrian defensive position
terrain rolling hills and villages east of Prague
theatre Central European theatre of the Seven Years' War NERFINISHED
year 1757

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: Battle of Kolin
Description of subject: The Battle of Kolin was a major 1757 engagement of the Seven Years' War in which Austrian forces under Field Marshal Leopold von Daun defeated Frederick the Great's Prussian army in Bohemia.

Referenced by (1)

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

Battle of Kolín alsoKnownAs Battle of Kolin