Alexandria County

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former county historical administrative division

Alexandria County was a former county in the early 19th-century District of Columbia that encompassed the city of Alexandria and surrounding areas on the Virginia side of the Potomac River before being retroceded to Virginia.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Alexandria County canonical	2
Alexandria County, Virginia	1
Alexandria County, Virginia (historical)	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	former county ⓘ historical administrative division ⓘ
borderedBy	Fairfax County, Virginia ⓘ Potomac River ⓘ Washington County, District of Columbia ⓘ
capital	City of Alexandria ⓘ surface form: Alexandria
contains	City of Alexandria ⓘ rural areas surrounding the City of Alexandria ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ
divisionOfCounty	City of Alexandria ⓘ surface form: City of Alexandria (independent city after retrocession) remaining county area later renamed Arlington County ⓘ
existedAsCountyOfDistrictOfColumbiaFrom	1801 ⓘ
existedAsCountyOfDistrictOfColumbiaUntil	1846 ⓘ
federalDistrictComponent	southern portion of the original District of Columbia ⓘ
formedFrom	portion of Virginia ceded to the federal government for the District of Columbia ⓘ
geographicRegion	Mid-Atlantic states ⓘ surface form: Mid-Atlantic United States
governingBody	Alexandria County Court ⓘ
historicalEra	early 19th century ⓘ
jurisdictionTypeWhileInDC	county of the District of Columbia ⓘ
legalSystem	American common law ⓘ
legislativeActCreatingDCCounties	District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 ⓘ
locatedIn	District of Columbia ⓘ Virginia ⓘ
locatedOn	Virginia side of the Potomac River ⓘ
namedAfter	City of Alexandria ⓘ
partOf	Virginia ⓘ surface form: Commonwealth of Virginia (after retrocession) District of Columbia ⓘ surface form: District of Columbia (prior to retrocession)
partOfFederalDistrict	no (after 1847) ⓘ yes (before 1846) ⓘ
presentDayLocationCorrespondsTo	Arlington County ⓘ surface form: Arlington County, Virginia City of Alexandria, Virginia ⓘ
primaryLanguage	English ⓘ
reasonForRetrocession	concerns over potential abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia ⓘ economic concerns in Alexandria ⓘ lack of congressional representation for residents ⓘ
renamedPortion	Arlington County (name adopted 1920) ⓘ
retrocededTo	Virginia ⓘ
retrocessionCompleted	1847 ⓘ
retrocessionYear	1846 ⓘ
stateAfterRetrocession	Virginia ⓘ
stateBeforeCessionToDC	Virginia ⓘ
status	defunct ⓘ
successorAdministrativeUnit	Arlington, Virginia ⓘ surface form: Arlington County, Virginia Alexandria, Virginia ⓘ surface form: independent city of Alexandria, Virginia
usedFor	local civil administration ⓘ local criminal jurisdiction ⓘ

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: Alexandria County
Description of subject: Alexandria County was a former county in the early 19th-century District of Columbia that encompassed the city of Alexandria and surrounding areas on the Virginia side of the Potomac River before being retroceded to Virginia.

Referenced by (4)

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

District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 → dividedDistrictInto → Alexandria County ⓘ

Alexandria, Virginia → countySeatOf → Alexandria County ⓘ

this entity surface form: Alexandria County, Virginia (historical)

Alexandria County Court → jurisdiction → Alexandria County ⓘ

Arlington County (name adopted 1920) → previousName → Alexandria County ⓘ

subject surface form: Arlington County

this entity surface form: Alexandria County, Virginia