Old State Capitol State Historic Site

E61272

former state capitol building historic site museum

Old State Capitol State Historic Site is a restored 19th-century Illinois statehouse in downtown Springfield, notable as Abraham Lincoln’s political base and the location of several key events in his career.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Old State Capitol State Historic Site canonical	3
Old State Capitol (Illinois) in Springfield	1
Old State Capitol State Historic Site (Springfield)	1
Old State Capitol grounds and associated structures	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	former state capitol building ⓘ historic site ⓘ museum ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Greek Revival ⓘ
category	Buildings and structures in Springfield, Illinois ⓘ Capitols in the United States ⓘ Museums in Springfield, Illinois ⓘ State Historic Sites of Illinois ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
currentUse	public museum ⓘ site for civic and ceremonial events ⓘ
formerUse	office of the Governor of Illinois ⓘ seat of the Illinois General Assembly ⓘ
hasFunction	museum of Illinois political history ⓘ state historic site ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ
hasPart	central dome ⓘ exhibit galleries on Abraham Lincoln and Illinois politics ⓘ historic law offices and courtrooms ⓘ public square grounds ⓘ restored governor’s office ⓘ restored legislative chambers ⓘ
hasTourismType	heritage tourism ⓘ
hasVisitorActivity	educational programs on Abraham Lincoln and Illinois history ⓘ guided tours ⓘ
heritageDesignation	National Historic Landmark ⓘ surface form: U.S. National Historic Landmark property listed on the National Register of Historic Places ⓘ
inception	19th century ⓘ
locatedIn	Illinois ⓘ Sangamon County, Illinois ⓘ Springfield, Illinois ⓘ
locatedInArea	downtown Springfield, Illinois ⓘ
managingOrganization	Illinois Department of Natural Resources ⓘ
materialUsed	locally quarried limestone ⓘ
notableFor	association with Abraham Lincoln’s political career ⓘ restored 19th-century statehouse architecture ⓘ role in Illinois state government in the mid-19th century ⓘ
operator	Illinois Department of Natural Resources ⓘ
ownedBy	Illinois ⓘ surface form: State of Illinois
significantEvent	Abraham Lincoln practiced law and politics from this building as his political base ⓘ Abraham Lincoln served as a state legislator in this building ⓘ site of Abraham Lincoln’s "House Divided" speech in 1858 ⓘ site of Abraham Lincoln’s 1858 U.S. Senate campaign activities ⓘ site of Abraham Lincoln’s lying in state after his assassination in 1865 ⓘ site of Barack Obama’s 2007 presidential campaign announcement ⓘ
touristAttraction	Springfield, Illinois historic attractions ⓘ
usedAs	Illinois State Capitol ⓘ

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
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- 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 State Capitol State Historic Site
Description of subject: Old State Capitol State Historic Site is a restored 19th-century Illinois statehouse in downtown Springfield, notable as Abraham Lincoln’s political base and the location of several key events in his career.

Referenced by (6)

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

Springfield, Illinois → hasLandmark → Old State Capitol State Historic Site ⓘ

Illinois State Capitol → precededBy → Old State Capitol State Historic Site ⓘ

this entity surface form: Old State Capitol (Illinois) in Springfield

National Historic Landmarks in Illinois → contains → Old State Capitol State Historic Site ⓘ

this entity surface form: Old State Capitol State Historic Site (Springfield)

State Historic Sites of Illinois → hasPart → Old State Capitol State Historic Site ⓘ

this entity surface form: Old State Capitol grounds and associated structures

Springfield → hasSite → Old State Capitol State Historic Site ⓘ

subject surface form: Springfield, Illinois