Clemency Canning

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British statesman colonial administrator person

Clemency Canning was the popular nickname of Lord Canning, the last Governor-General and first Viceroy of British India, known for his relatively moderate and conciliatory policies during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

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Label	Occurrences
Clemency Canning canonical	2

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British statesman ⓘ colonial administrator ⓘ person ⓘ
appointedGovernorGeneralOfIndia	1856 ⓘ
becameFirstViceroyOfIndia	1858 ⓘ
burialPlace	Westminster Abbey, London ⓘ surface form: Westminster Abbey
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1812-12-14 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1862-06-17 ⓘ
educatedAt	Christ Church, Oxford ⓘ Eton College ⓘ
father	George Canning ⓘ
hasFamilyName	Canning ⓘ
hasGivenName	Charles ⓘ John ⓘ
hasHonorificPrefix	The Right Honourable ⓘ
hasNickname	Clemency Canning ⓘ
hasOrder	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath ⓘ
hasTitle	Earl Canning ⓘ Lord Canning ⓘ
implementedPolicy	clemency towards Indian rebels after 1857 ⓘ
involvedInEvent	Indian Rebellion of 1857 ⓘ
memberOfPoliticalParty	Conservative Party (UK) ⓘ surface form: Conservative Party (UK) (historical)
monarchDuringViceroyalty	Queen Victoria ⓘ
mother	Joan Scott ⓘ
notableFor	being the first Viceroy of British India ⓘ being the last Governor-General of British India ⓘ his moderate policies during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 ⓘ his policy of clemency towards rebels after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 ⓘ overseeing the transfer of power from the East India Company to the British Crown ⓘ
oversaw	implementation of the Government of India Act 1858 ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Bromley ⓘ surface form: Bromley, Kent, England
placeOfDeath	London, England ⓘ
positionHeld	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ⓘ Viceroy of India ⓘ surface form: Governor-General and Viceroy of India Governor-General ⓘ surface form: Governor-General of India Member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom ⓘ Member of the House of Lords ⓘ Postmaster General of Great Britain ⓘ surface form: Postmaster General of the United Kingdom Viceroy of India ⓘ
religion	Anglicanism (broadly) ⓘ surface form: Anglicanism
spouse	Charlotte Canning ⓘ
termAsGovernorGeneralEnded	1858 ⓘ
termAsViceroyEnded	1862 ⓘ

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: Clemency Canning
Description of subject: Clemency Canning was the popular nickname of Lord Canning, the last Governor-General and first Viceroy of British India, known for his relatively moderate and conciliatory policies during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

Referenced by (2)

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

Lord Canning → nickname → Clemency Canning ⓘ

Clemency Canning → hasNickname → Clemency Canning ⓘ