Patrick Ruthven, Earl of Forth and Brentford

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Royalist general Scottish nobleman human military officer

Patrick Ruthven, Earl of Forth and Brentford, was a Scottish nobleman and professional soldier who became one of King Charles I’s principal Royalist generals during the early years of the English Civil War.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Patrick Ruthven, Earl of Forth and Brentford canonical	2
Patrick Ruthven, Earl of Forth	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Royalist general ⓘ Scottish nobleman ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ
activityEndCentury	17th century ⓘ
activityStartCentury	16th century ⓘ
allegiance	Charles I of England ⓘ Royalists ⓘ
associatedWithEvent	early campaigns of the English Civil War ⓘ
birthPlace	Scotland ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ
deathPlace	Kingdom of England ⓘ
employer	Charles I of England ⓘ
era	17th century ⓘ
familyName	Ruthven ⓘ
fieldOfWork	military leadership ⓘ warfare ⓘ
givenName	Patrick ⓘ
honorificPrefix	The Right Honourable ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ Scots ⓘ Swedish ⓘ
militaryAllegiance	Sweden ⓘ
militaryBranch	Royalist army ⓘ
militaryRank	field marshal ⓘ general ⓘ
monarchServed	Charles I of England ⓘ
nobleFamily	Ruthven family ⓘ
nobleTitle	Earl of Brentford ⓘ Earl of Forth ⓘ Lord Ruthven of Ettrick ⓘ
notableFor	professional soldiering career in continental Europe ⓘ service as one of Charles I’s principal Royalist generals ⓘ
notableWork	command of Royalist forces at the Battle of Brentford ⓘ command of Royalist forces at the Battle of Edgehill ⓘ command of Royalist forces at the Battle of Newbury ⓘ
participatedIn	Battle of Brentford ⓘ Battle of Edgehill ⓘ English Civil War ⓘ First Battle of Newbury ⓘ
politicalAlignment	Royalist ⓘ
positionHeld	commander-in-chief of Royalist forces ⓘ member of the Scottish nobility ⓘ
religion	Protestantism ⓘ
servedIn	Swedish Army ⓘ Thirty Years' War ⓘ

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: Patrick Ruthven, Earl of Forth and Brentford
Description of subject: Patrick Ruthven, Earl of Forth and Brentford, was a Scottish nobleman and professional soldier who became one of King Charles I’s principal Royalist generals during the early years of the English Civil War.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Royalists → notableCommander → Patrick Ruthven, Earl of Forth and Brentford ⓘ

Battle of Brentford → commander → Patrick Ruthven, Earl of Forth and Brentford ⓘ

this entity surface form: Patrick Ruthven, Earl of Forth

Royalist cause in the English Civil War → leader → Patrick Ruthven, Earl of Forth and Brentford ⓘ