Van Rensselaer family
E398634
Dutch-American family
landowning dynasty
manorial estate
merchant
noble family
patroonship
politician
tenant uprising
The Van Rensselaer family was a powerful and wealthy Dutch-descended landowning dynasty in colonial and early New York, best known for controlling the vast Rensselaerswyck manor along the Hudson River.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Van Rensselaer family canonical | 9 |
| Rensselaer family | 1 |
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dutch-American family
ⓘ
landowning dynasty ⓘ manorial estate ⓘ merchant ⓘ noble family ⓘ patroonship ⓘ politician ⓘ tenant uprising ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| declineOfPower | mid-19th century ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
land leasing
ⓘ
tenant farming ⓘ |
| estate | Rensselaerswyck ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Dutch ⓘ |
| foundingMember | Kiliaen van Rensselaer ⓘ |
| heritageSite | Van Rensselaer Manor House ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
colonial America
ⓘ
early United States ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
Anti‑Rent War
ⓘ
surface form:
Anti-Rent War
|
| landowner | Van Rensselaer family self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| language |
Dutch
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | New Netherland ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | New York State ⓘ |
| mainIssue | manorial land tenure in New York ⓘ |
| notableFor |
control of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck
ⓘ
influence in early New York politics ⓘ large landholdings in colonial New York ⓘ last patroon of Rensselaerswyck ⓘ wealth and social prominence ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Stephen Van Rensselaer
ⓘ
surface form:
Stephen Van Rensselaer III
|
| occupation |
diamond merchant
ⓘ
landowner ⓘ patroon ⓘ |
| politicalInfluence |
New York Colonial Assembly
ⓘ
surface form:
New York colonial government
New York state politics ⓘ
surface form:
State of New York politics
|
| positionHeld |
Lieutenant Governor of New York
ⓘ
U.S. Representative from New York ⓘ |
| region |
Albany–Schenectady–Troy metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Albany, New York area
Hudson Valley ⓘ
surface form:
Hudson River Valley
|
| relatedFamily |
Livingston family
ⓘ
Schuyler family ⓘ |
| religion | Dutch Reformed Church ⓘ |
| roleIn | founder of the Van Rensselaer family in America ⓘ |
| socialClass |
aristocracy of New York
ⓘ
landed gentry ⓘ |
| titleHeld |
lord of the manor of Rensselaerswyck
ⓘ
patroon of Rensselaerswyck ⓘ |
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: Van Rensselaer family Description of subject: The Van Rensselaer family was a powerful and wealthy Dutch-descended landowning dynasty in colonial and early New York, best known for controlling the vast Rensselaerswyck manor along the Hudson River.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rensselaer family
subject surface form:
Margarita Schuyler
subject surface form:
Rensselaerswyck