8th Earl of Carnarvon

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The 8th Earl of Carnarvon is a British aristocrat and peer best known as the present head of the Carnarvon family and custodian of Highclere Castle, the estate famed worldwide as the primary filming location for the television series "Downton Abbey."

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
8th Earl of Carnarvon canonical 2
Earl of Carnarvon 2

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf British peer
aristocrat
member of the House of Lords (hereditary peer, by election)
associatedWith Downton Abbey
surface form: Downton Abbey (television series)
child George Kenneth Oliver Molyneux Herbert, Lord Porchester
Lady Saoirse Herbert
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1956-11-10
dateOfSuccession 2001-09-11
educatedAt Eton College
St John’s College, Oxford
familyName Herbert
father Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon
fieldOfStudy modern history
gender male
givenName George
hasAncestralSeat Highclere Castle
headOfFamily Carnarvon family
knownFor involvement in estate farming and land management
public appearances related to Downton Abbey at Highclere Castle
languageSpoken English
livingStatus living person
memberOfNobleFamily Herbert family
mother Jean Margaret Wallop, Countess of Carnarvon
nobleRank earl
nobleTitle 8th Earl of Carnarvon self-linksurface differs
surface form: Earl of Carnarvon
notableFor being custodian of Highclere Castle, filming location of Downton Abbey
management and preservation of Highclere Castle estate
occupation farmer
landowner
ordinalOfTitle 8th Earl of Carnarvon self-linksurface differs
owns Highclere Castle
surface form: Highclere Castle estate
placeOfBirth London, England
surface form: London
politicalAffiliation Conservative Party (UK)
positionHeld custodian of Highclere Castle
predecessor Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon
relatedTo 5th Earl of Carnarvon
surface form: George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (Egyptologist patron of Tutankhamun excavation)
religion Anglicanism
residence Highclere Castle
Highclere Castle
surface form: Highclere, Hampshire
seatInParliament House of Lords (hereditary peers by-election, Conservative benches)
spouse Fiona Aitken, Countess of Carnarvon
succeededToTitle 8th Earl of Carnarvon self-linksurface differs
surface form: Earl of Carnarvon
titleHeld Baron Porchester
Lord Porchester (courtesy title before succession)

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: 8th Earl of Carnarvon
Description of subject: The 8th Earl of Carnarvon is a British aristocrat and peer best known as the present head of the Carnarvon family and custodian of Highclere Castle, the estate famed worldwide as the primary filming location for the television series "Downton Abbey."

Referenced by (4)

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

Highclere Castle currentOwnerTitle 8th Earl of Carnarvon
8th Earl of Carnarvon nobleTitle 8th Earl of Carnarvon self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: George Reginald Oliver Molyneux Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon
this entity surface form: Earl of Carnarvon
8th Earl of Carnarvon ordinalOfTitle 8th Earl of Carnarvon self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: George Reginald Oliver Molyneux Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon
8th Earl of Carnarvon succeededToTitle 8th Earl of Carnarvon self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: George Reginald Oliver Molyneux Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon
this entity surface form: Earl of Carnarvon