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.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
East Jersey canonical 5
Province of East Jersey 2
East Jersey line of division 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.

Province of New Jersey dividedInto East Jersey
Province of New Jersey mergedFrom East Jersey
this entity surface form: Province of East Jersey
West Jersey sharesBorderWith East Jersey
West Jersey mergedWith East Jersey
West Jersey borderedBy East Jersey
this entity surface form: East Jersey line of division
Crown Colony of New Jersey precededBy East Jersey
this entity surface form: Province of East Jersey
Proprietary House namedAfter East Jersey
this entity surface form: Proprietors of East Jersey