Eastern Settlement
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Eastern Settlement was the largest and earliest Norse colony in southern Greenland, serving as the primary center of Greenlandic Norse life during the medieval period.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eastern Settlement canonical | 13 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Norse colony
ⓘ
medieval settlement ⓘ |
| archaeologicalStatus | archaeological site ⓘ |
| climateContext | Little Ice Age onset contributed to decline ⓘ |
| countryAtTheTime | Kingdom of Norway ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Norse culture ⓘ |
| declineFactors |
climate deterioration
ⓘ
economic difficulties ⓘ isolation from Europe ⓘ possible conflict or competition with Inuit ⓘ |
| earliestColonyStatus | earliest Norse colony in Greenland ⓘ |
| ecclesiasticalStatus | seat of the Bishop of Greenland ⓘ |
| endTime | 15th century ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Erik the Red ⓘ |
| governedAs | part of the Norwegian realm ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalRemains |
byres and barns
ⓘ
church ruins ⓘ farm ruins ⓘ irrigation works ⓘ |
| hasCapital | Brattahlíð ⓘ |
| hasChurches | multiple parish churches ⓘ |
| hasNotableSite |
Brattahlíð farm of Erik the Red
ⓘ
Diocese of Gardar ⓘ
surface form:
Garðar episcopal see
|
| hasReligiousBuilding | cathedral at Garðar ⓘ |
| inception | c. 985 ⓘ |
| languageOfInhabitants |
Norse
ⓘ
surface form:
Old Norse
|
| laterUnionContext | under the Norwegian crown within the Kalmar Union (late period) ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southern Greenland ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Greenland ⓘ |
| mainEconomicActivities |
cattle herding
ⓘ
goat herding ⓘ hunting ⓘ pastoral farming ⓘ sheep herding ⓘ trade with Europe ⓘ |
| modernCountry | Greenland ⓘ |
| modernSovereignState |
Denmark
ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Denmark
|
| namedAfter | its position in the eastern part of the Norse-settled area of Greenland ⓘ |
| neighboringSettlement | Western Settlement ⓘ |
| partOf |
Eastern Settlement, Greenland
ⓘ
surface form:
Greenlandic Norse settlements
Greenland ⓘ
surface form:
Norse Greenland
|
| populationEstimate | several thousand inhabitants at its peak ⓘ |
| relativeSize | largest Norse colony in Greenland ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| role | primary center of Greenlandic Norse life ⓘ |
| startTime | late 10th century ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
High Middle Ages
ⓘ
Viking Age ⓘ |
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: Eastern Settlement Description of subject: Eastern Settlement was the largest and earliest Norse colony in southern Greenland, serving as the primary center of Greenlandic Norse life during the medieval period.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cathedral of Gardar
subject surface form:
Brattahlíð