Schuylkill Canal

E789048

canal historic place

The Schuylkill Canal is a historic 19th-century navigation canal in eastern Pennsylvania that was built along the Schuylkill River to transport coal and other goods to markets such as Philadelphia.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Schuylkill Canal canonical	1
Schuylkill Canal (historic)	1

Statements (29)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	canal ⓘ historic place ⓘ
builtInCentury	19th century ⓘ
category	Canals in Pennsylvania ⓘ Historic canals in the United States ⓘ
connectedTo	Philadelphia NERFINISHED ⓘ
constructionStartedInCentury	19th century ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
era	Industrial Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ
follows	Schuylkill River NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalUse	coal transport ⓘ freight transport ⓘ
locatedAlong	Schuylkill River NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedIn	Pennsylvania ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
locatedInRegion	eastern Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ
namedAfter	Schuylkill River NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Schuylkill River navigation system NERFINISHED ⓘ
primaryPurpose	transportation of coal ⓘ
servedMarket	Philadelphia NERFINISHED ⓘ
significance	facilitated regional commerce ⓘ supported coal industry in Pennsylvania ⓘ
state	Pennsylvania ⓘ
transportedCommodity	agricultural products ⓘ anthracite coal ⓘ general merchandise ⓘ
transportMode	water transport ⓘ
usedFor	transportation of goods ⓘ
waterwayType	inland waterway ⓘ

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.

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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: Schuylkill Canal
Description of subject: The Schuylkill Canal is a historic 19th-century navigation canal in eastern Pennsylvania that was built along the Schuylkill River to transport coal and other goods to markets such as Philadelphia.

Referenced by (2)

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

Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania → servedByWaterway → Schuylkill Canal ⓘ

Upper Providence Township, Pennsylvania → hasWatercourse → Schuylkill Canal ⓘ

this entity surface form: Schuylkill Canal (historic)