Division of Territories and Island Possessions
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The Division of Territories and Island Possessions was a former U.S. Department of the Interior unit responsible for administering and overseeing American territories and island possessions before its functions were reorganized under later offices.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Division of Territories and Island Possessions canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6802636 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Division of Territories and Island Possessions Context triple: [Office of Territories (U.S. Department of the Interior), hasPredecessor, Division of Territories and Island Possessions]
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Colonarie
Colonarie is a small village in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, known as the birthplace of Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves.
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Division of the Northwest Territory
The Division of the Northwest Territory was an early 19th-century reorganization of U.S. frontier lands that carved new territorial units, including what became the Michigan Territory, out of the original Northwest Territory.
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United States territorial expansion
United States territorial expansion refers to the historical process by which the United States grew from a cluster of Atlantic coast colonies into a transcontinental nation through purchases, wars, treaties, and settlement.
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D.
Pacific Mandate territories
The Pacific Mandate territories were former German colonial islands in the Pacific Ocean administered by Japan after World War I under a League of Nations mandate.
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E.
British Western Pacific Territories
The British Western Pacific Territories was a colonial administrative grouping of various British protectorates and colonies in the western Pacific Ocean, overseen by a single High Commissioner from the late 19th to mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Division of Territories and Island Possessions Target entity description: The Division of Territories and Island Possessions was a former U.S. Department of the Interior unit responsible for administering and overseeing American territories and island possessions before its functions were reorganized under later offices.
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A.
Colonarie
Colonarie is a small village in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, known as the birthplace of Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves.
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B.
Division of the Northwest Territory
The Division of the Northwest Territory was an early 19th-century reorganization of U.S. frontier lands that carved new territorial units, including what became the Michigan Territory, out of the original Northwest Territory.
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C.
United States territorial expansion
United States territorial expansion refers to the historical process by which the United States grew from a cluster of Atlantic coast colonies into a transcontinental nation through purchases, wars, treaties, and settlement.
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D.
Pacific Mandate territories
The Pacific Mandate territories were former German colonial islands in the Pacific Ocean administered by Japan after World War I under a League of Nations mandate.
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E.
British Western Pacific Territories
The British Western Pacific Territories was a colonial administrative grouping of various British protectorates and colonies in the western Pacific Ocean, overseen by a single High Commissioner from the late 19th to mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former United States federal agency
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government agency ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
United States island possessions
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United States territories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dissolvedOrAbolished | yes ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
colonial and insular affairs
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public administration ⓘ territorial administration ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
administration of insular affairs
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coordination with territorial governors ⓘ liaison between territorial governments and federal government ⓘ oversight of territorial legislation ⓘ policy development for U.S. territories ⓘ |
| hasJurisdictionOver |
Alaska Territory
NERFINISHED
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American Samoa NERFINISHED ⓘ Guam NERFINISHED ⓘ Hawaii Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ Puerto Rico NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Virgin Islands NERFINISHED ⓘ various Pacific island possessions of the United States ⓘ |
| hasRole |
administration of U.S. territories
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coordination of territorial policy ⓘ oversight of U.S. island possessions ⓘ |
| isPartOfHistoryOf |
United States Department of the Interior organizational history
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United States territorial governance ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| operatedBy | United States Department of the Interior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Office of the Secretary of the Interior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Department of the Interior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reasonForDissolution | reorganization of territorial administration within the Department of the Interior ⓘ |
| successor |
Office of Insular Affairs
NERFINISHED
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Office of Territories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Subject: Division of Territories and Island Possessions Description of subject: The Division of Territories and Island Possessions was a former U.S. Department of the Interior unit responsible for administering and overseeing American territories and island possessions before its functions were reorganized under later offices.
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