40th Army (Red Army)

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Soviet army field army military unit

The 40th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that played a significant role in major Eastern Front operations during World War II.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
40th Army (Red Army) canonical	1
40th Army (Soviet Union)	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Soviet army ⓘ field army ⓘ military unit ⓘ
allegiance	Soviet Union ⓘ surface form: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
awarded	honorific titles and decorations for combat performance ⓘ
branch	Ground Forces ⓘ
composition	armored and mechanized units ⓘ artillery units ⓘ rifle divisions ⓘ
conflict	World War II ⓘ surface form: Great Patriotic War World War II ⓘ
country	Soviet Union ⓘ
formedIn	1941 ⓘ
frontAssignment	Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front ⓘ surface form: 2nd Ukrainian Front Southwestern Front ⓘ Soviet Steppe Front ⓘ surface form: Steppe Front Soviet Voronezh Front ⓘ surface form: Voronezh Front
garrisonOrAreaOfOperations	Left-bank Ukraine ⓘ Moldova ⓘ surface form: Moldavia Right-bank Ukraine ⓘ Romania ⓘ Voronezh Oblast ⓘ surface form: Voronezh region
historicalPeriod	Second World War era ⓘ
notableAction	crossing of the Dnieper River in 1943 ⓘ defense of Voronezh in 1942 ⓘ liberation of Kiev in 1943 ⓘ
notableCommander	Fyodor Kostenko ⓘ Konstantin Moskalenko ⓘ Kuzma Podlas ⓘ Philip Zhmachenko ⓘ
notableOperation	Battle of Kursk ⓘ Battle of the Dnieper ⓘ Kiev offensive (1943) ⓘ Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive ⓘ Uman–Botoșani offensive ⓘ Voronezh–Kastornoye offensive ⓘ Voronezh–Kursk defensive operation ⓘ
partOf	Red Army ⓘ Red Army ⓘ surface form: Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
primaryOpponents	German Army Group B ⓘ Heeresgruppe Süd ⓘ surface form: German Army Group South Wehrmacht ⓘ
role	front‑line combat formation ⓘ
subordinateTo	Soviet High Command ⓘ surface form: Stavka of the Supreme High Command
task	defensive operations in 1941–1942 ⓘ offensive operations from 1943 onward ⓘ
theater	Eastern Front ⓘ
typeOfUnit	combined arms army ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: 40th Army (Red Army)
Description of subject: The 40th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army that played a significant role in major Eastern Front operations during World War II.

Referenced by (2)

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

Soviet Southwestern Front → componentUnit → 40th Army (Red Army) ⓘ

Uman–Botoșani offensive → involvedFormation → 40th Army (Red Army) ⓘ

this entity surface form: 40th Army (Soviet Union)