Ceremonial counties of England
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The ceremonial counties of England are geographic areas used mainly for the appointment of Lord-Lieutenants and other formal purposes, often corresponding to traditional county boundaries rather than modern administrative divisions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ceremonial counties of England canonical | 1 |
Statements (70)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographical division system
ⓘ
subnational geographic entity grouping ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
geographic counties of England
ⓘ
lieutenancy areas of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | England only ⓘ |
| basedOn |
historic counties of England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
traditional county boundaries ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| differentFrom |
administrative counties of England
ⓘ
metropolitan counties of England ⓘ non-metropolitan counties of England NERFINISHED ⓘ unitary authorities of England ⓘ |
| governedBy | Lord-Lieutenant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
do not always match current administrative boundaries
ⓘ
may contain multiple local authorities ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfUnits | 48 ⓘ |
| includes |
Bedfordshire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Berkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Bristol NERFINISHED ⓘ Buckinghamshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Cambridgeshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Cheshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Cornwall NERFINISHED ⓘ County Durham NERFINISHED ⓘ Cumbria NERFINISHED ⓘ Derbyshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Devon NERFINISHED ⓘ Dorset NERFINISHED ⓘ East Riding of Yorkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ East Sussex NERFINISHED ⓘ Essex NERFINISHED ⓘ Gloucestershire NERFINISHED ⓘ Greater London NERFINISHED ⓘ Greater Manchester NERFINISHED ⓘ Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Herefordshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Hertfordshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Isle of Wight NERFINISHED ⓘ Isles of Scilly NERFINISHED ⓘ Kent NERFINISHED ⓘ Lancashire NERFINISHED ⓘ Leicestershire NERFINISHED ⓘ Lincolnshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Merseyside NERFINISHED ⓘ Norfolk NERFINISHED ⓘ North Yorkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Northamptonshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Northumberland NERFINISHED ⓘ Nottinghamshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Oxfordshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Rutland NERFINISHED ⓘ Shropshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Somerset NERFINISHED ⓘ South Yorkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Staffordshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Suffolk NERFINISHED ⓘ Surrey NERFINISHED ⓘ Tyne and Wear NERFINISHED ⓘ Warwickshire NERFINISHED ⓘ West Midlands NERFINISHED ⓘ West Sussex NERFINISHED ⓘ West Yorkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Wiltshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Worcestershire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalDefinitionIn | Lieutenancies Act 1997 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| usedFor |
appointment of Lord-Lieutenants
ⓘ
ceremonial purposes ⓘ lieutenancy ⓘ statistical purposes ⓘ |
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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: Ceremonial counties of England Description of subject: The ceremonial counties of England are geographic areas used mainly for the appointment of Lord-Lieutenants and other formal purposes, often corresponding to traditional county boundaries rather than modern administrative divisions.
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