Thomas Ewing

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Thomas Ewing was a 19th-century American politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and held multiple cabinet positions, including being the inaugural Secretary of the Interior.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Thomas Ewing canonical 9
Thomas Ewing Jr. 3
Thomas Ewing Sr. 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf United States Cabinet member
United States senator
human
lawyer
politician
appointedBy Millard Fillmore
William Henry Harrison
Zachary Taylor
buriedAt Saint Mary Cemetery, Lancaster, Ohio
child Charles Ewing
Ellen Ewing Sherman
surface form: Ellen Ewing

Hugh Boyle Ewing
Thomas Ewing self-linksurface differs
surface form: Thomas Ewing Jr.
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1789-12-28
dateOfDeath 1871-10-26
educatedAt Ohio University
self-taught in law
familyName Ewing
fatherInLawOf William Tecumseh Sherman
givenName Thomas
livedIn Lancaster, Ohio, United States
memberOfPoliticalParty Whig Party
militaryConflict War of 1812
name Thomas Ewing self-link
nativeLanguage English
notableAchievement first United States Secretary of the Interior
notableRelative William Tecumseh Sherman
notableWork advocacy for the creation of the U.S. Department of the Interior
occupation lawyer
politician
placeOfBirth Ohio County, Virginia, United States
West Liberty, Virginia, United States
placeOfDeath Lancaster, Ohio, United States
positionHeld Secretary of War
surface form: United States Secretary of War (ad interim)

United States Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of the Treasury
surface form: United States Secretary of the Treasury

United States Senator from Ohio
inaugural United States Secretary of the Interior
member of the Ohio House of Representatives
practicedLawIn Lancaster, Ohio, United States
surface form: Lancaster, Ohio
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Roman Catholic Church
represented Ohio
representedIn United States Senate
servedIn United States Army
sexOrGender male
spouse Maria Boyle

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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 Ewing
Description of subject: Thomas Ewing was a 19th-century American politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and held multiple cabinet positions, including being the inaugural Secretary of the Interior.

Referenced by (13)

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

William Tecumseh Sherman adoptiveFamily Thomas Ewing
this entity surface form: Thomas Ewing Sr.
Thomas Ewing name Thomas Ewing self-link
Thomas Ewing child Thomas Ewing self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Thomas Ewing Jr.
Ewing hasNotableBearer Thomas Ewing
Ellen Ewing Sherman father Thomas Ewing
Ellen Ewing Sherman sibling Thomas Ewing
this entity surface form: Thomas Ewing Jr.
Ellen Ewing Sherman notableRelative Thomas Ewing
Maria Boyle spouse Thomas Ewing
Hugh Boyle Ewing sibling Thomas Ewing
this entity surface form: Thomas Ewing Jr.
Hugh Boyle Ewing father Thomas Ewing