Sir John Aird
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Sir John Aird was a prominent Canadian banker who served as president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and chaired the influential 1929 Aird Commission on public broadcasting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sir John Aird canonical | 1 |
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian
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banker ⓘ human ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
Canadian banking sector
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Canadian broadcasting policy ⓘ |
| chairpersonOf |
Aird Commission
NERFINISHED
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Royal Commission on Radio Broadcasting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Government of Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| employer | Canadian Bank of Commerce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
banking
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public broadcasting policy ⓘ |
| genre | public policy reports ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Knight Bachelor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Sir ⓘ |
| influenced |
creation of a national public broadcasting system in Canada
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development of public broadcasting in Canada ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leading the Aird Commission on public broadcasting in Canada
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presidency of the Canadian Bank of Commerce ⓘ |
| memberOf | Canadian financial community ⓘ |
| name | Sir John Aird NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | 1929 Aird Commission on public broadcasting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Aird Commission report NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bank executive
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banker ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce ⓘ |
| residence | Canada ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
historical works on Canadian banking leaders
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studies on the origins of Canadian public broadcasting ⓘ |
| workLocation | Toronto, Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Sir John Aird Description of subject: Sir John Aird was a prominent Canadian banker who served as president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and chaired the influential 1929 Aird Commission on public broadcasting.
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