East Jersey
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East Jersey was the northeastern proprietary division of colonial New Jersey, encompassing the area around present-day New York Harbor and much of what is now northern and central New Jersey.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| East Jersey canonical | 5 |
| Province of East Jersey | 2 |
| East Jersey line of division | 1 |
| Proprietors of East Jersey | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former British colony
ⓘ
historical region ⓘ proprietary colony ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
New York Colony ⓘ West Jersey ⓘ |
| capital | Perth Amboy ⓘ |
| colonialPower | England ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| currency |
Pound sterling
ⓘ
surface form:
pound sterling
|
| dividedFrom | Province of New Jersey ⓘ |
| divisionOf |
New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
|
| divisionType | proprietary division ⓘ |
| encompassed |
area around present-day New York Harbor
ⓘ
much of present-day central New Jersey ⓘ much of present-day northern New Jersey ⓘ |
| endTime | 1702 ⓘ |
| establishedBy |
Concession and Agreement of 1664
ⓘ
proprietary grant from James, Duke of York ⓘ |
| governmentType | proprietary government ⓘ |
| hadColonialStatus | proprietary colony of England ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Colonial America ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalSystem | English common law ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
North America
ⓘ
Thirteen Colonies ⓘ present-day New Jersey ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
present-day United States
|
| majorPort | Perth Amboy ⓘ |
| majorWaterBody |
New York Harbor estuarine system
ⓘ
surface form:
New York Harbor
Raritan Bay ⓘ |
| mergedInto | Crown Colony of New Jersey ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Channel Islands (crown dependencies)
ⓘ
surface form:
Island of Jersey
|
| notableCity |
Elizabethtown
ⓘ
Newark ⓘ Perth Amboy ⓘ |
| partOf | Province of New Jersey ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Province of New Jersey
ⓘ
surface form:
Province of New Jersey (undivided)
|
| presentInYear |
1680
ⓘ
1690 ⓘ |
| reasonForEnd | surrender of proprietary rights to the Crown ⓘ |
| religion | Protestantism ⓘ |
| rulingTitle | proprietor ⓘ |
| sovereign |
British Crown
ⓘ
surface form:
English Crown
|
| startTime | 1674 ⓘ |
| successor |
Province of New Jersey
ⓘ
surface form:
Province of New Jersey under royal government
|
| todayPartOf |
New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
State of New Jersey
|
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: East Jersey Description of subject: East Jersey was the northeastern proprietary division of colonial New Jersey, encompassing the area around present-day New York Harbor and much of what is now northern and central New Jersey.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Province of East Jersey
this entity surface form:
East Jersey line of division
this entity surface form:
Province of East Jersey
this entity surface form:
Proprietors of East Jersey