1st Earl of Birkenhead

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The 1st Earl of Birkenhead, better known as F. E. Smith, was a prominent early 20th-century British Conservative politician, barrister, and Lord Chancellor noted for his sharp wit and close association with Winston Churchill.

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Label Occurrences
1st Earl of Birkenhead canonical 2

Statements (56)

Predicate Object
instanceOf British politician
Conservative Party (UK) politician
Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
barrister
human
alsoKnownAs 1st Earl of Birkenhead NERFINISHED
F. E. Smith NERFINISHED
barAdmission Inner Temple NERFINISHED
birthDate 1872-07-12
birthPlace Birkenhead NERFINISHED
Cheshire NERFINISHED
England
child Frederick Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead NERFINISHED
closeAssociateOf Winston Churchill NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
createdPeer 1922
deathDate 1930-09-30
deathPlace England
London, England
surface form: London
educatedAt Birkenhead School NERFINISHED
University College, Oxford NERFINISHED
era early 20th century
familyName Smith
fieldOfWork law
politics
givenName Edwin NERFINISHED
Frederick NERFINISHED
honorificPrefix The Right Honourable
honorificSuffix KC NERFINISHED
PC
language English
memberOf Conservative Party (UK) NERFINISHED
nobleTitleNumber 1st Earl
notableCase defence of Edward Carson in the Marconi scandal debates
notableFor legal advocacy
oratory
sharp wit
notableWork The World in 2030 A.D. NERFINISHED
occupation barrister
judge
politician
parliamentaryBody House of Commons of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED
House of Lords NERFINISHED
peerage Peerage of the United Kingdom
politicalAlignment Conservative
positionHeld Attorney General for England and Wales NERFINISHED
Lord Chancellor NERFINISHED
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
Member of Parliament
Secretary of State for India NERFINISHED
Solicitor General for England and Wales NERFINISHED
profession lawyer
religion Anglicanism
spouse Margaret Eleanor Furneaux NERFINISHED
title Earl of Birkenhead NERFINISHED

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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.
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Subject: 1st Earl of Birkenhead
Description of subject: The 1st Earl of Birkenhead, better known as F. E. Smith, was a prominent early 20th-century British Conservative politician, barrister, and Lord Chancellor noted for his sharp wit and close association with Winston Churchill.

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

Lord Birkenhead honorificTitle 1st Earl of Birkenhead
Frederick Edwin Smith honorificTitle 1st Earl of Birkenhead