Shadwell, Virginia Colony

E33972

plantation unincorporated community

Shadwell, Virginia Colony was an 18th-century plantation community in Albemarle County best known as the birthplace and early home of Thomas Jefferson.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Shadwell, Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia	2
Shadwell, Virginia Colony canonical	1

Statements (29)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	plantation ⓘ unincorporated community ⓘ
associatedWith	American Revolutionary era elite ⓘ Monticello (plantation) ⓘ surface form: Monticello
birthplaceOf	Thomas Jefferson ⓘ
coordinateLocation	near Rivanna River ⓘ
country	British America ⓘ
economicActivity	mixed farming ⓘ tobacco cultivation ⓘ
era	18th century ⓘ
foundedBy	Peter Jefferson ⓘ
governedBy	House of Burgesses ⓘ surface form: House of Burgesses (Virginia Colony)
hasFunction	agricultural estate ⓘ tobacco plantation ⓘ
hasReligion	Anglican cultural context ⓘ
historicalRegion	Piedmont region of Virginia ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
locatedIn	Albemarle County, Virginia ⓘ surface form: Albemarle County, Virginia Colony Colony and Dominion of Virginia ⓘ surface form: Virginia Colony
locatedNear	Charlottesville, Virginia ⓘ
namedAfter	Spitalfields, London, England ⓘ surface form: Shadwell, London
notableResident	Thomas Jefferson ⓘ
ownedBy	Jefferson family ⓘ
partOf	Monticello (plantation) ⓘ surface form: Jefferson family estates in Albemarle County Shadwell plantation ⓘ
significance	early home of a future U.S. president ⓘ
significantEvent	birth of Thomas Jefferson in 1743 ⓘ
timePeriod	colonial Virginia ⓘ
usedFor	enslaved labor-based agriculture ⓘ

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: Shadwell, Virginia Colony
Description of subject: Shadwell, Virginia Colony was an 18th-century plantation community in Albemarle County best known as the birthplace and early home of Thomas Jefferson.

Referenced by (3)

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

Thomas Jefferson → placeOfBirth → Shadwell, Virginia Colony ⓘ

Peter Jefferson → deathPlace → Shadwell, Virginia Colony ⓘ

this entity surface form: Shadwell, Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia

Peter Jefferson → burialPlace → Shadwell, Virginia Colony ⓘ

this entity surface form: Shadwell, Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia