Assertion: elephant | /r/ObjectUse | used as symbol
Facets:
value: for republicans during the civil war
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: occasionally
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Although elephants had been occasionally used as a symbol for Republicans during the Civil War, cartoonist Thomas Nast, who drew an elephant in an 1874 issue of Harper's Weekly, gets the credit for linking the animal with the political party.