Samuel S. Montague

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Samuel S. Montague was an American civil engineer best known as the chief engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad during the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

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Label Occurrences
Samuel S. Montague canonical 1

Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American
civil engineer
person
associatedWith Central Pacific Railroad Company NERFINISHED
First Transcontinental Railroad NERFINISHED
basedOn United States railroad expansion in the 19th century
contributedTo development of transcontinental rail service in the United States
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
employer Central Pacific Railroad NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork civil engineering
railroad engineering
genre railroad construction
hasActivity engineering management
overseeing railroad construction
surveying railroad routes
hasRole railroad engineer
industry rail transport
languageOfWorkOrName English
notableAchievement leadership in engineering the Central Pacific Railroad line to Promontory Summit
notableEmployer Central Pacific Railroad NERFINISHED
notableEvent construction of the Central Pacific segment of the First Transcontinental Railroad
notableFor role in building the First Transcontinental Railroad
notableWork construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad
occupation civil engineer
partOf First Transcontinental Railroad project NERFINISHED
positionHeld chief engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad
workLocation California, United States
surface form: California

Sierra Nevada region NERFINISHED
Western United States NERFINISHED

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Instruction
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# Requirements
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- 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: Samuel S. Montague
Description of subject: Samuel S. Montague was an American civil engineer best known as the chief engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad during the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

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