Registry Room

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The Registry Room is the vast main hall on Ellis Island where millions of immigrants were historically processed upon their arrival to the United States.

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Label Occurrences
Registry Room canonical 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historic immigration processing hall
interior space
tourist attraction
alsoKnownAs Great Hall
Main Hall
architecturalStyle Beaux-Arts
associatedWith Ellis Island
surface form: Ellis Island Immigration Museum

Statue of Liberty
capacity thousands of people per day (historical)
country United States of America
currentUse ceremonial space for naturalization ceremonies
museum exhibition space
designedBy Edward Lippincott Tilton
William A. Boring NERFINISHED
endUseDateAsMainProcessingCenter 1954
feature Guastavino tile vaulting
surface form: Guastavino tile arches

balcony galleries
brick and limestone construction
large arched windows
rows of wooden benches (historical)
vaulted ceiling
floorArea approximately 102 feet wide
approximately 200 feet long
heritageStatus part of Statue of Liberty National Monument
historicalPeriod early 20th century
late 19th century
locatedIn Ellis Island
New York Harbor
United States of America
surface form: United States
managedBy National Park Service
material Guastavino tile
brick
limestone
oversees immigrant inspection process (historical)
partOf Ellis Island
surface form: Ellis Island Immigration Station

Ellis Island
surface form: Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration
reopenedToPublic 1990
restoredIn 1980s
significance primary processing point for millions of immigrants
symbol of American immigration history
startUseDate 1900
state New York
usedFor legal inspections of immigrants
medical inspections of immigrants
questioning by immigration officials
registration of arriving immigrants
visitedBy researchers of immigration history
school groups
tourists

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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: Registry Room
Description of subject: The Registry Room is the vast main hall on Ellis Island where millions of immigrants were historically processed upon their arrival to the United States.

Referenced by (1)

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

Great Hall alsoKnownAs Registry Room
subject surface form: Great Hall (Ellis Island)