E. F. L. Wood

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British politician Conservative Party (UK) politician Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom Viceroy of India human statesman

E. F. L. Wood, better known as Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, was a prominent British Conservative politician and statesman who served as Viceroy of India and later as Foreign Secretary in the years leading up to and during the early part of World War II.

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Label	Occurrences
E. F. L. Wood canonical	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British politician ⓘ Conservative Party (UK) politician ⓘ Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom ⓘ Viceroy of India ⓘ human ⓘ statesman ⓘ
birthDate	1881-04-16 ⓘ
birthPlace	Powderham Castle, Devon, England NERFINISHED ⓘ
causeOfDeath	heart attack ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom ⓘ
deathDate	1959-12-23 ⓘ
educatedAt	Christ Church, Oxford ⓘ Eton College ⓘ
father	Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	diplomacy ⓘ politics ⓘ
honorificTitle	Lord Irwin NERFINISHED ⓘ The Earl of Halifax NERFINISHED ⓘ Viscount Halifax NERFINISHED ⓘ
memberOf	House of Commons of the United Kingdom ⓘ House of Lords ⓘ
memberOfPoliticalParty	Conservative Party (UK) ⓘ
monarchDuringTerm	George V NERFINISHED ⓘ George VI NERFINISHED ⓘ
mother	Lady Agnes Elizabeth Courtenay NERFINISHED ⓘ
name	Edward Frederick Lindley Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableEvent	participation in Munich diplomacy 1938 ⓘ tenure as Viceroy during Indian independence movement ⓘ
notableWork	policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany ⓘ
officeEnd	British Ambassador to the United States 1946 ⓘ Foreign Secretary 1940 ⓘ Viceroy of India 1931 ⓘ
officeStart	British Ambassador to the United States 1941 ⓘ Foreign Secretary 1938 ⓘ Viceroy of India 1926 ⓘ
positionHeld	British Ambassador to the United States ⓘ Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster NERFINISHED ⓘ Leader of the House of Lords ⓘ Lord Privy Seal ⓘ Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom ⓘ Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries ⓘ President of the Board of Education ⓘ Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ Viceroy and Governor-General of India NERFINISHED ⓘ
primeMinisterDuringTerm	Neville Chamberlain NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanley Baldwin NERFINISHED ⓘ Winston Churchill NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	Anglicanism ⓘ
spouse	Lady Dorothy Evelyn Augusta Onslow 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.

Input

Subject: E. F. L. Wood
Description of subject: E. F. L. Wood, better known as Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, was a prominent British Conservative politician and statesman who served as Viceroy of India and later as Foreign Secretary in the years leading up to and during the early part of World War II.

Referenced by (1)

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

Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax → alsoKnownAs → E. F. L. Wood ⓘ