James McCudden

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James McCudden was a highly decorated British First World War flying ace renowned for his exceptional combat record and tactical skill in the air.

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Label Occurrences
James McCudden canonical 17
James Thomas Byford McCudden 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf British military officer
First World War flying ace
human
aircraftFlown Airco DH.2
Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2
S.E.5a fighter aircraft
allegiance United Kingdom
awardReceived Belgian Croix de Guerre
Distinguished Service Order
Distinguished Service Order
surface form: Distinguished Service Order with Bars

Croix de Guerre
surface form: French Croix de Guerre

Military Cross
Military Cross
surface form: Military Cross with Bars

Military Medal
The Victoria Cross
surface form: Victoria Cross
birthDate 1895-03-28
burialPlace Porte-de-Paris Cemetery, Arras, France
causeOfDeath aircraft crash
conflict World War I
surface form: First World War
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
deathDate 1918-07-09
familyName McCudden
fullName James McCudden self-linksurface differs
surface form: James Thomas Byford McCudden
genreOfWork military memoir
givenName James
hasHonorificTitle DSO
MC
MM
VC
hasSibling John McCudden
Maurice McCudden
William McCudden
hasWork Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps
militaryBranch Royal Air Force
Royal Flying Corps
militaryRank Major
notableFor being one of the highest-scoring British fighter aces of the First World War
exceptional tactical skill in aerial combat
notableWork Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps
occupation fighter pilot
military aviator
parent Amelia Byford
William McCudden
surface form: William Henry McCudden
placeOfBirth Gillingham, Kent
placeOfDeath near Auxi-le-Château, France
servedInUnit No. 3 Squadron RAF
surface form: No. 3 Squadron RFC

No. 56 Squadron RFC
No. 60 Squadron RFC
serviceNumber notable First World War British flying ace (exact number not specified here)

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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: James McCudden
Description of subject: James McCudden was a highly decorated British First World War flying ace renowned for his exceptional combat record and tactical skill in the air.

Referenced by (18)

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

Royal Flying Corps notableAce James McCudden
James McCudden fullName James McCudden self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: James Thomas Byford McCudden
McCudden hasNotableBearer James McCudden
William McCudden sibling James McCudden
William McCudden notableRelative James McCudden
Amelia Byford motherOf James McCudden
No. 56 Squadron RFC notableAce James McCudden
S.E.5a fighter aircraft famousPilot James McCudden
subject surface form: Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a
John McCudden sibling James McCudden
John McCudden notableRelative James McCudden
Maurice McCudden relative James McCudden
Maurice McCudden sibling James McCudden
No. 60 Squadron RFC notableMember James McCudden