Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron

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Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron, was an English nobleman and soldier who became the first peer of the Fairfax family in the Scottish peerage in the early 17th century.

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Statements (27)

Predicate Object
instanceOf English nobleman
human
peer
soldier
aristocraticTitleScope Scottish peerage
centuryOfActivity 17th century
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of England
ethnicGroup English
familyDistinction first peer of the Fairfax family
hasFamilyName Fairfax
hasGivenName Thomas
hasHonorificSuffix of Cameron
memberOfNobility Fairfax family
militaryStatus officer
name Thomas Fairfax
nobleFamily Fairfax family
nobleRank Lord
nobleTitle Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron self-linksurface differs
surface form: 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron
notableFor being the first peer of the Fairfax family in the Scottish peerage
occupation nobleman
soldier
peerage Peerage of Scotland
positionHeld Baron Fairfax of Cameron
surface form: Lord Fairfax of Cameron
regionOfActivity England
regionOfNobleTitle Scotland
socialClass aristocracy
titleCreatedIn early 17th century

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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: Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Description of subject: Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron, was an English nobleman and soldier who became the first peer of the Fairfax family in the Scottish peerage in the early 17th century.

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

Sir Thomas Fairfax father Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Catherine Colepeper nobleTitleHeldByFamily Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron
this entity surface form: Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron nobleTitle Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron
2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron father Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron
subject surface form: Thomas Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron predecessor Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron
subject surface form: Thomas Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron