Kingston, Rhode Island, United States

E63181

census-designated place historic district village

Kingston, Rhode Island, United States is a small historic village best known as the home of the University of Rhode Island and as the childhood home of author Jhumpa Lahiri.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Kingston, Rhode Island	11
Kingston, Rhode Island village center	1
Kingston, Rhode Island, United States canonical	1
village of Kingston, Rhode Island	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	census-designated place ⓘ historic district ⓘ village ⓘ
areaCode	401 ⓘ
associatedWith	Jhumpa Lahiri ⓘ Rhode Island Rams athletics ⓘ
childhoodHomeOf	Jhumpa Lahiri ⓘ
climate	humid continental climate ⓘ
contains	Rhode Island University ⓘ surface form: University of Rhode Island
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
county	Washington County, Rhode Island ⓘ
demographicsCharacteristic	population includes large student community ⓘ
distanceToAtlanticCoast	approximately 5–7 miles inland ⓘ
distanceToProvidence	approximately 25 miles south-southwest ⓘ
GNISFeatureID	1219821 ⓘ
governedBy	Town Council of South Kingstown ⓘ
hasEducationalInstitution	Rhode Island University ⓘ surface form: University of Rhode Island
hasFeature	19th-century residential architecture ⓘ historic village green ⓘ university-related facilities ⓘ
hasHistoricDistrict	Kingston Village Historic District ⓘ
hasLandUse	commercial (village center) ⓘ educational ⓘ residential ⓘ
hasLibrary	Kingston Free Library ⓘ
hasReligiousBuilding	historic village churches ⓘ
hasUTCOffset	UTC−05:00 ⓘ
hasUTCOffsetDST	UTC−04:00 ⓘ
historicSignificance	example of a 18th–19th century New England village ⓘ
isCampusLocationOf	Rhode Island University ⓘ surface form: University of Rhode Island
knownFor	Kingston Village Historic District ⓘ being home to the University of Rhode Island ⓘ historic village center ⓘ
locatedInTimeZone	Eastern Time Zone ⓘ
locatedNear	Narragansett, Rhode Island ⓘ South Kingstown, Rhode Island ⓘ surface form: Wakefield, Rhode Island
locatedOn	Kingston Hill ⓘ
nearestCity	Providence ⓘ surface form: Providence, Rhode Island
NRHPReference	Kingston Village Historic District ⓘ
partOf	New England ⓘ
postalCode	02881 ⓘ
region	southern Rhode Island ⓘ
roadAccess	Rhode Island Route 138 ⓘ U.S. Route 1 nearby ⓘ
servedBy	Kingston (Amtrak station) ⓘ
state	Rhode Island ⓘ
town	South Kingstown, Rhode Island ⓘ
transportation	Northeast Corridor rail line nearby ⓘ

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: Kingston, Rhode Island, United States
Description of subject: Kingston, Rhode Island, United States is a small historic village best known as the home of the University of Rhode Island and as the childhood home of author Jhumpa Lahiri.