Joseph Holt

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Joseph Holt was an American lawyer and politician who served as a key member of President Abraham Lincoln’s administration, notably as Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army during the Civil War.

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Label Occurrences
Joseph Holt canonical 1

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American Civil War figure
human
politician
appointedBy Abraham Lincoln NERFINISHED
James Buchanan NERFINISHED
burialPlace Mount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED
conflict American Civil War
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1807-01-06
dateOfDeath 1894-08-01
educatedAt Centre College NERFINISHED
St. Joseph’s College (Bardstown, Kentucky) NERFINISHED
Transylvania University NERFINISHED
employer United States Army
United States government
surface form: United States federal government
era 19th century
gender male
knownFor strong Unionist stance despite Kentucky origins
languageSpoken English
legalSpecialty military law
memberOf Lincoln administration NERFINISHED
militaryRank brigadier general
name Joseph Holt NERFINISHED
notableFor role in military trials after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination
service as Judge Advocate General during the American Civil War
notableWork prosecution of the Lincoln assassination conspirators
occupation judge advocate
lawyer
politician
placeOfBirth Breckinridge County, Kentucky NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Washington, D.C.
politicalParty Democratic Party
Republican Party
positionHeld Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army NERFINISHED
United States Postmaster General NERFINISHED
United States Secretary of War NERFINISHED
religion Roman Catholicism
residence Louisville, Kentucky NERFINISHED
Washington, D.C.
spouse Margaret Wickliffe Holt NERFINISHED
workedOn military justice reforms during the Civil War

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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: Joseph Holt
Description of subject: Joseph Holt was an American lawyer and politician who served as a key member of President Abraham Lincoln’s administration, notably as Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army during the Civil War.

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