Sir Thomas Smith

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English statesman Renaissance humanist human scholar

Sir Thomas Smith was a prominent 16th-century English scholar, diplomat, and statesman who served as Secretary of State to both Edward VI and Elizabeth I.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Sir Thomas Smith canonical	2
Thomas Smith	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	English statesman ⓘ Renaissance humanist ⓘ human ⓘ scholar ⓘ
birthDate	1513 ⓘ
centuryOfActivity	16th century ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of England ⓘ
deathDate	1577 ⓘ
described	the government and constitution of Tudor England in De Republica Anglorum ⓘ
educatedAt	Pembroke College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Queens' College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Cambridge University ⓘ surface form: University of Cambridge
fieldOfWork	civil law ⓘ classics ⓘ political theory ⓘ
givenName	Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ
honorificPrefix	Sir ⓘ
influenced	English constitutional thought ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ Latin ⓘ
monarchServed	Edward VI of England NERFINISHED ⓘ Elizabeth I of England NERFINISHED ⓘ
movement	English Reformation NERFINISHED ⓘ
name	Sir Thomas Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableWork	De Republica Anglorum NERFINISHED ⓘ De recta et emendata linguae Anglicae scriptione NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	classical scholar ⓘ diplomat ⓘ political philosopher ⓘ scholar ⓘ statesman ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Essex NERFINISHED ⓘ Saffron Walden NERFINISHED ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Essex NERFINISHED ⓘ Theydon Mount NERFINISHED ⓘ
positionHeld	Ambassador to France ⓘ Member of Parliament ⓘ Provost of Eton College ⓘ Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Secretary of State of England NERFINISHED ⓘ Secretary of State to Edward VI ⓘ Secretary of State to Elizabeth I NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	Protestant Christianity ⓘ surface form: Protestantism
taughtAt	Pembroke College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Queens' College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ
wasKnighted	true ⓘ

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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: Sir Thomas Smith
Description of subject: Sir Thomas Smith was a prominent 16th-century English scholar, diplomat, and statesman who served as Secretary of State to both Edward VI and Elizabeth I.

Referenced by (3)

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

Sidney Sussex → hasNotableAlumnus → Sir Thomas Smith ⓘ

subject surface form: Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Smith's Parish → namedAfter → Sir Thomas Smith ⓘ

Council of Regency for Edward VI → hasMember → Sir Thomas Smith ⓘ

this entity surface form: Thomas Smith