Old Spanish Trail (trade route)

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commerce route historic trade route overland trail

Old Spanish Trail (trade route) was a historic overland commerce route that linked the northern New Mexico settlements with California, facilitating trade in goods such as woolen textiles and horses across the American Southwest in the 19th century.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Old Spanish Trail (trade route) canonical	2
Old Spanish National Historic Trail	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	commerce route ⓘ historic trade route ⓘ overland trail ⓘ
administeredBy	National Park Service ⓘ
associatedWith	Californios ⓘ surface form: Californio ranchers Mexican traders ⓘ Navajo people ⓘ New Mexican merchants ⓘ Paiute ⓘ surface form: Paiute people Spanish colonial trade networks ⓘ Ute people ⓘ
beganUse	1820s ⓘ
connects	California, United States ⓘ surface form: California Los Angeles, California, United States of America ⓘ surface form: Los Angeles, California New Mexico ⓘ Santa Fe, New Mexico ⓘ
countryDuringPrimaryUse	Mexico ⓘ
declinedUse	late 1840s ⓘ
declinedUseReason	opening of shorter routes after the Mexican–American War ⓘ
designationBy	United States Congress ⓘ
designationYear	2002 ⓘ
historicalPeriod	19th century ⓘ
laterCountry	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
length	approximately 1200 miles ⓘ
locatedIn	southwestern United States ⓘ surface form: American Southwest United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
nameOrigin	Spanish colonial era exploration and trade ⓘ
passesThrough	Arizona ⓘ California deserts ⓘ Colorado ⓘ Nevada ⓘ New Mexico Territory ⓘ Utah ⓘ
peakUse	1830s ⓘ 1840s ⓘ
predecessor	indigenous travel routes ⓘ
recognizedAs	National Historic Trail ⓘ
relatedTo	Old Spanish Trail (trade route) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Old Spanish National Historic Trail Santa Fe Trail ⓘ
traverses	Great Basin ⓘ Mojave Desert ⓘ Rocky Mountains foothills ⓘ
usedFor	overland commerce ⓘ slave trade ⓘ trade in New Mexican serapes ⓘ trade in blankets ⓘ trade in horses ⓘ trade in leather goods ⓘ trade in mules ⓘ trade in woolen textiles ⓘ

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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: Old Spanish Trail (trade route)
Description of subject: Old Spanish Trail (trade route) was a historic overland commerce route that linked the northern New Mexico settlements with California, facilitating trade in goods such as woolen textiles and horses across the American Southwest in the 19th century.

Referenced by (3)

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

Old Spanish Trail (auto trail) → namedAfter → Old Spanish Trail (trade route) ⓘ

Mojave River → associatedWith → Old Spanish Trail (trade route) ⓘ

Old Spanish Trail (trade route) → relatedTo → Old Spanish Trail (trade route) self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Old Spanish National Historic Trail