Sidney Earle Smith

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Sidney Earle Smith was a Canadian academic and politician who served as president of the University of Toronto and later as Secretary of State for External Affairs.

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Sidney Earle Smith canonical 1

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Canadian politician
human
appointedBy John Diefenbaker NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath heart attack
countryOfCitizenship Canada
dateOfBirth 1897-03-09
dateOfDeath 1959-03-17
educatedAt Acadia University NERFINISHED
Dalhousie University NERFINISHED
employer Dalhousie University NERFINISHED
University of Manitoba NERFINISHED
University of Toronto NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork higher education administration
law
gender male
hasAcademicRank professor
hasFamilyName Smith NERFINISHED
hasGivenName Sidney NERFINISHED
hasMiddleName Earle NERFINISHED
hasName Sidney Earle Smith NERFINISHED
honorificPrefix The Honourable NERFINISHED
languageSpoken English
memberOfPoliticalParty Progressive Conservative Party of Canada NERFINISHED
nativeLanguage English
notableWork contributions to Canadian foreign policy in the late 1950s
leadership in expanding the University of Toronto post-World War II
occupation law professor
politician
university administrator
officeEnd 1948 (President of the University of Manitoba)
1957 (President of the University of Toronto)
1959 (Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada)
officeStart 1945 (President of the University of Manitoba)
1948 (President of the University of Toronto)
1957 (Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada)
placeOfBirth Port Hood Island, Nova Scotia, Canada NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Ottawa, Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED
positionHeld President of the University of Manitoba
President of the University of Toronto
Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada NERFINISHED
religion Baptist
residence Ottawa, Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED
Toronto, Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED
taughtAt Dalhousie University NERFINISHED
Osgoode Hall Law School NERFINISHED

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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.

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- 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: Sidney Earle Smith
Description of subject: Sidney Earle Smith was a Canadian academic and politician who served as president of the University of Toronto and later as Secretary of State for External Affairs.

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Howard Green precededBy Sidney Earle Smith