William N. Pendleton

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William N. Pendleton was a Confederate brigadier general and chief of artillery in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, known for organizing and commanding its artillery forces during the American Civil War.

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William N. Pendleton canonical 1

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Confederate general
Episcopal priest
person
allegiance Confederate States of America
battle Battle of Antietam NERFINISHED
Battle of Fredericksburg NERFINISHED
Battle of Gettysburg NERFINISHED
First Battle of Bull Run NERFINISHED
birthDate 1809-12-26
birthPlace Richmond, Virginia NERFINISHED
burialPlace Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, Virginia NERFINISHED
conflict American Civil War
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
deathDate 1883-01-15
deathPlace Lexington, Virginia NERFINISHED
educatedAt United States Military Academy
familyName Pendleton NERFINISHED
fullName William Nelson Pendleton NERFINISHED
gender male
givenName William
graduationYear 1830
middleName Nelson NERFINISHED
militaryBranch Confederate States Army NERFINISHED
militaryRank Brigadier general
militaryServiceEnd 1865
militaryServiceStart 1861
militaryUnit Artillery Reserve, Army of Northern Virginia NERFINISHED
notableFact close personal friend of Robert E. Lee
named some of his artillery pieces after the four Evangelists
notableFor organizing the artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia
service as a Confederate brigadier general
serving as Robert E. Lee’s chief of artillery
occupation clergyman
soldier
teacher
parentOf Alexander S. Pendleton NERFINISHED
positionHeld Chief of Artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia
preWarOccupation Episcopal rector in Lexington, Virginia
religion Episcopal Church
servedIn Army of Northern Virginia NERFINISHED
servedUnder Robert E. Lee NERFINISHED
spouse Anzolette Elizabeth Page NERFINISHED
stateOfMilitaryService Virginia NERFINISHED

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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.
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Subject: William N. Pendleton
Description of subject: William N. Pendleton was a Confederate brigadier general and chief of artillery in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, known for organizing and commanding its artillery forces during the American Civil War.

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Confederate artillery notableCommander William N. Pendleton