The Lawn

E160190

The Lawn is the historic, colonnaded central quadrangle of the University of Virginia, designed by Thomas Jefferson as the heart of his Academical Village.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
The Lawn canonical 4

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf architectural ensemble
central quadrangle
historic quadrangle
university campus landmark
axisOf The Rotunda
connectedTo The Range
constructionStart 1817
designConcept Academical Village
designedBy Thomas Jefferson
flankedBy pavilions
student rooms
hasArchitecturalStyle Neoclassical architecture
hasDesignPeriod early 19th century
hasFeature The Rotunda
central grassy court
colonnades
pavilions
student rooms
hasLayout long north–south axis
hasMaterial brick
stone
wood
hasNotableResidentType fourth-year students
hasOrientation north–south
hasRole heart of the Academical Village
hasViewOf Blue Ridge Mountains
heritageDesignation National Historic Landmark
surface form: U.S. National Historic Landmark

U.S. National Historic Landmark District contributing property
UNESCO World Heritage Site
inspiredBy Enlightenment educational ideals
classical Roman architecture
locatedIn Charlottesville, Virginia
United States of America
surface form: United States

Virginia
operatedBy University of Virginia
ownedBy University of Virginia
partOf Academical Village
University of Virginia Historic District
surface form: UNESCO World Heritage Site "Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville"

University of Virginia
symbolOf Neoclassical architecture
surface form: Jeffersonian architecture

Jefferson’s educational philosophy
University of Virginia identity
usedFor academic ceremonies
graduation exercises
public gatherings
student housing

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: The Lawn
Description of subject: The Lawn is the historic, colonnaded central quadrangle of the University of Virginia, designed by Thomas Jefferson as the heart of his Academical Village.

Referenced by (4)

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

UVA hasCampus The Lawn
subject surface form: University of Virginia