Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

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British peer British politician Conservative Party (UK) politician Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom Viceroy of India diplomat human

Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, was a prominent British Conservative politician and statesman who served as Viceroy of India and later as Foreign Secretary in the years leading up to the Second World War.

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All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax canonical	7
Lord Halifax	6
Viscount Halifax	3
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax	2
Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax	1
Earl of Halifax 1944	1
Lord Halifax (Edward Wood)	1

Statements (66)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British peer ⓘ British politician ⓘ Conservative Party (UK) politician ⓘ Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom ⓘ Viceroy of India ⓘ diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ
allegiance	United Kingdom ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	E. F. L. Wood ⓘ Edward Frederick Lindley Wood ⓘ Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax ⓘ surface form: Lord Halifax The Earl of Halifax ⓘ Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax ⓘ surface form: Viscount Halifax
appointedBy	George V ⓘ surface form: King George V
birthDate	1881-04-16 ⓘ
birthPlace	Powick ⓘ surface form: Powick, Worcestershire, England
burialPlace	All Saints’ Church, Hickleton, South Yorkshire, England ⓘ
conflictParticipatedIn	World War I ⓘ surface form: First World War
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom ⓘ
createdEarlOfHalifax	1944 ⓘ
deathDate	1959-12-23 ⓘ
deathPlace	Alnwick, Northumberland, England ⓘ surface form: Garrows, near Alnwick, Northumberland, England
educatedAt	Christ Church, Oxford ⓘ Eton College ⓘ
endTime	1931 ⓘ 1940 ⓘ 1946 ⓘ
father	Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax ⓘ
fieldOfStudy	Modern History ⓘ
givenName	Edward ⓘ
heldPosition	British Ambassador to the United States ⓘ Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ⓘ Leader of the House of Lords ⓘ Lord Privy Seal ⓘ Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of the United Kingdom ⓘ surface form: Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries President of the Board of Education ⓘ Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ⓘ surface form: Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom Viceroy of India ⓘ surface form: Viceroy and Governor-General of India
ideology	Conservatism ⓘ
marriageDate	1909-04-21 ⓘ
memberOfPoliticalParty	Conservative Party (UK) ⓘ
militaryService	British Army ⓘ
monarchDuringTerm	George VI ⓘ
mother	Lady Agnes Elizabeth Courtenay ⓘ
nationality	British ⓘ
notableFor	policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany ⓘ role in British foreign policy before the Second World War ⓘ service as Viceroy of India during the late 1920s ⓘ
numberOfChildren	2 ⓘ
parliamentaryHouse	House of Commons of the United Kingdom ⓘ House of Lords ⓘ
precededBy	Anthony Eden ⓘ
primeMinisterDuringTerm	Neville Chamberlain ⓘ Winston Churchill ⓘ
religion	Anglicanism ⓘ
representedConstituency	Ripon ⓘ
spouse	Lady Dorothy Evelyn Augusta Onslow ⓘ
startTime	1926 ⓘ 1938 ⓘ 1941 ⓘ
succeededBy	Anthony Eden ⓘ
termAsMPEnd	1925 ⓘ
termAsMPStart	1910 ⓘ
title	The Earl of Halifax ⓘ surface form: 1st Earl of Halifax Baron Irwin ⓘ Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax ⓘ surface form: Viscount Halifax

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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: Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Description of subject: Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, was a prominent British Conservative politician and statesman who served as Viceroy of India and later as Foreign Secretary in the years leading up to the Second World War.

Referenced by (21)

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

Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire → officeHeldBy → Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax ⓘ

Lord Irwin → alsoKnownAs → Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax ⓘ

this entity surface form: Viscount Halifax

Lord Irwin → nobleTitle → Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax ⓘ

this entity surface form: Viscount Halifax

Lord Irwin → father → Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax ⓘ

this entity surface form: Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax

Oriel College, Oxford → hasNotableAlumnus → Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lord Halifax (Edward Wood)

Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs → officeHolder → Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax ⓘ