Zhao Kuo

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Zhao Kuo was a Warring States–period general of the State of Zhao, best known for his disastrous leadership at the Battle of Changping against Qin.

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Label Occurrences
Zhao Kuo canonical 2

Statements (33)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Warring States period person
historical figure
military general
allegiance State of Zhao NERFINISHED
approximateCentury 3rd century BCE
associatedWith State of Zhao royal and noble families
commanded Zhao army at the Battle of Changping NERFINISHED
conflict Battle of Changping NERFINISHED
Qin–Zhao War NERFINISHED
consequenceOfActions severe weakening of the State of Zhao
country State of Zhao NERFINISHED
deathCause killed in battle
deathPlace Changping NERFINISHED
era pre-imperial China
familyName Zhao NERFINISHED
father Zhao She NERFINISHED
gender male
givenName Kuo NERFINISHED
historicalSource Shiji NERFINISHED
knownFor Battle of Changping NERFINISHED
defeat at the Battle of Changping
language Classical Chinese
legacy cautionary example of overconfidence in military history of China
mentionedIn Records of the Grand Historian NERFINISHED
militaryRank general
name Zhao Kuo NERFINISHED
notableEvent replaced Lian Po as commander at Changping
occupation general
opponent State of Qin NERFINISHED
opponentCommander Bai Qi NERFINISHED
reputation inexperienced field commander
strategicOutcome decisive Qin victory at Changping
timePeriod Warring States period 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.
Input
Subject: Zhao Kuo
Description of subject: Zhao Kuo was a Warring States–period general of the State of Zhao, best known for his disastrous leadership at the Battle of Changping against Qin.

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