John Ordway

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John Ordway was a U.S. Army sergeant best known for serving as a key diarist and leader within the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

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Label Occurrences
John Ordway canonical 1

Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf diarist
explorer
person
soldier
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
familyName Ordway NERFINISHED
genre expedition diary
travel journal
givenName John NERFINISHED
knownFor providing one of the principal primary sources on the Lewis and Clark Expedition
recording daily events of the expedition
language English
militaryBranch United States Army
militaryConflict Lewis and Clark Expedition NERFINISHED
militaryRank sergeant
notableFor keeping a detailed journal during the Lewis and Clark Expedition
service in the Lewis and Clark Expedition
occupation diarist
explorer
soldier
partOf Corps of Discovery NERFINISHED
Lewis and Clark Expedition NERFINISHED
role diarist of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
leader within the Lewis and Clark Expedition
member of the Corps of Discovery
non-commissioned officer in the Corps of Discovery
timePeriod early 19th century
workedUnder Meriwether Lewis NERFINISHED
William Clark NERFINISHED

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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.
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Subject: John Ordway
Description of subject: John Ordway was a U.S. Army sergeant best known for serving as a key diarist and leader within the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

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Lewis and Clark Expedition member John Ordway