Daniel Bissell Jr.

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Daniel Bissell Jr. was an American Revolutionary War soldier and spy who is historically recognized as one of the earliest recipients of what would become the Purple Heart for his distinguished military service.

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Label Occurrences
Daniel Bissell Jr. canonical 1

Statements (25)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American Revolutionary War veteran
American soldier
person
spy
awardReceived Badge of Military Merit NERFINISHED
early American military decoration for merit
conflict American Revolutionary War
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
surface form: United States
describedAs one of the earliest recipients of what would become the Purple Heart
familyName Bissell NERFINISHED
genre military intelligence
givenName Daniel NERFINISHED
hasPart covert reconnaissance of British forces
militaryAllegiance United States (Continental Congress) NERFINISHED
militaryBranch Continental Army
militaryRank non-commissioned officer
movement Patriot cause in the American Revolution
notableFor distinguished military service during the American Revolution
early recipient of the decoration that evolved into the Purple Heart
hazardous undercover service behind enemy lines
notableWork intelligence-gathering mission in British-occupied New York City
occupation soldier
spy
partOf Continental Army intelligence operations NERFINISHED
role Continental Army spy in New York City

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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: Daniel Bissell Jr.
Description of subject: Daniel Bissell Jr. was an American Revolutionary War soldier and spy who is historically recognized as one of the earliest recipients of what would become the Purple Heart for his distinguished military service.

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

Badge of Military Merit created by George Washington firstRecipient Daniel Bissell Jr.
subject surface form: Badge of Military Merit