Abraham Buford
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Abraham Buford was a Continental Army officer in the American Revolutionary War, best known for leading the American forces that were defeated by British troops under Banastre Tarleton at the Waxhaws in 1780.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Abraham Buford canonical | 1 |
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Continental Army officer
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person ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Continental Congress
NERFINISHED
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Thirteen Colonies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Waxhaws Massacre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commanded | American forces at the Waxhaws ⓘ |
| conflict | Battle of Waxhaws NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictResult | defeat at Waxhaws ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| date | 1780 (Battle of Waxhaws) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Buford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Abraham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| militaryConflictContext | Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer in the Continental Army ⓘ |
| notableBattle | Waxhaws NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | Waxhaws defeat in 1780 ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Banastre Tarleton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
British Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| role | field commander ⓘ |
| side | Patriot forces ⓘ |
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: Abraham Buford Description of subject: Abraham Buford was a Continental Army officer in the American Revolutionary War, best known for leading the American forces that were defeated by British troops under Banastre Tarleton at the Waxhaws in 1780.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.