historicalFunction

P2715 predicate

Indicates the role, purpose, or activity an entity had during a past period or in a historical context.

Aliases (12)
  • historicalActivity ×100
  • hasHistoricalFunction ×52
  • historicFunction ×12
  • functionInAntiquity ×7
  • historicalPurpose ×6
  • hasFunctionInAntiquity ×3
  • majorHistoricalFunction ×2
  • ancientFunction ×1
  • functionDuringAncienRégime ×1
  • functionHistorically ×1
  • functionInClassicalPeriod ×1
  • primaryFunctionHistoric ×1

Sample triples (395)
Subject Object
42 U.S.C. § 1983 to provide a federal remedy against abuses by state officials during Reconstruction ("historicalPurpose")
A1 road main route between London and Edinburgh
Aarle-Rixtel crafts and trade center ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Aarle-Rixtel local religious center ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Acropolis of Athens religious and ceremonial center of the city-state of Athens ("functionInClassicalPeriod")
Adelantado mayor extend royal control over distant lands
Adelantado mayor organize conquest and colonization
Albany Post Road post road
Albany Post Road stagecoach route
Albany, Scotland appanage for royal princes
Alexandria Eschate base for campaigns beyond the Jaxartes
Alexandria Eschate trade hub between Greek world and Central Asia
Altstadt (Frankfurt am Main) medieval city center of Frankfurt
Annaberg Sugar Plantation ruins industrial-scale sugar production complex
Arlington House plantation agricultural estate
Arlington House plantation slave plantation
Astronomer Royal direction of the Royal Observatory
Astronomer Royal production of astronomical tables for navigation
Aswan frontier town of Ancient Egypt
Aswan trading center
BMW aircraft engine manufacturing ("historicalActivity")
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Martinsburg Shops railroad maintenance facility ("historicFunction")
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Martinsburg Shops railroad manufacturing facility ("historicFunction")
Banská Bystrica metalworking ("historicalActivity")
Banská Bystrica mining ("historicalActivity")
Barberini banking and commerce (early family history) ("historicalActivity")
Barberini ecclesiastical careers ("historicalActivity")
Barnsdale Forest royal hunting ground
Baron of Heeze, Leende and Zesgehuchten local lordship
Barry coal-exporting port
Bath Abbey Churchyard parish burial ground for Bath Abbey ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Benoni gold mining on the Witwatersrand ("historicalActivity")
Berom people iron working ("historicalActivity")
Berom people trade in agricultural products ("historicalActivity")
Blackfoot Buffalo hunting on horseback ("historicalActivity")
Blackfoot Intertribal warfare ("historicalActivity")
Blackfoot Trade with other Plains tribes ("historicalActivity")
Bou Regreg River harbor ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Bou Regreg River trade route ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Bradshaw Mountains region 19th-century mining camps ("historicalActivity")
Bradshaw Mountains region logging ("historicalActivity")
Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church administrator of the Papal States revenues
Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church chief financial officer of the Holy See
Canongate separate burgh main street
Capernaum fishing village ("ancientFunction")
Carnegie of Pittarrow regional landholding family ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Cathedral Chapter of Münster exercised political influence in the Prince-Bishopric of Münster
Cathedral Chapter of Münster exercised religious authority in the Diocese of Münster
Cathedral Chapter of Münster participated in territorial governance of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster
Central Sahara caravan trade ("historicalActivity")
Central Sahara gold trade ("historicalActivity")
Central Sahara salt trade ("historicalActivity")
Central Sahara slave trade ("historicalActivity")
Central West (New South Wales) gold mining ("historicalActivity")
Charlestown, Nevis Caribbean maritime commerce ("historicalActivity")
Charlestown, Nevis sugar trade ("historicalActivity")
Chebar canal irrigation canal ("functionInAntiquity")
Chebar canal transportation waterway ("functionInAntiquity")
Chicago Outfit bootlegging during Prohibition ("historicalActivity")
Chicago Outfit extortion ("historicalActivity")
Chicago Outfit illegal gambling ("historicalActivity")
Chicago Outfit labor racketeering ("historicalActivity")
Chicago Outfit loan sharking ("historicalActivity")
Chicago Outfit murder-for-hire ("historicalActivity")
Chicago Outfit political corruption ("historicalActivity")
Chicago Outfit prostitution ("historicalActivity")
Château de la Muette royal residence ("functionDuringAncienRégime")
Cocopah people trade along the Colorado River ("historicalActivity")
Colonial Office building, Whitehall headquarters of the British Empire’s colonial administration
Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet centralized control of U.S. naval operations
Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet coordination of fleet deployments in global war
Comte (France) denoted a noble rank often linked to territorial lordship
Cullercoats cobble boat fishing ("historicalActivity")
Cullercoats fish curing ("historicalActivity")
Cullercoats fishing ("historicalActivity")
Culross coal mining ("historicalActivity")
Culross salt production ("historicalActivity")
Cupar administrative centre of Fife ("historicFunction")
Daijō-daijin coordination of other ministers
Daijō-daijin oversight of state administration
Damrak harbour basin
Damrak shipping approach to Dam Square
Dayak peoples headhunting (pre-colonial) ("historicalActivity")
Dayak peoples riverine trade ("historicalActivity")
Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith central organ of the Roman Inquisition
Drammenselva log driving ("historicalActivity")
Drammenselva timber floating ("historicalActivity")
Duke advising the monarch
Duke commanding armies
Duke regional governance
Dumbartonshire administrative county
Dumbartonshire judicial county
Dunhuang Buddhist cultural center
Dunhuang gateway between China and Central Asia
Dunhuang military outpost
Dunhuang trade hub
Dutch Caribbean Atlantic slave trade ("historicalActivity")
Earl high-ranking nobleman
Earl military leader
Earl regional governor
Earl of Chester administration of palatine county
Earl of Chester military command on Welsh Marches
East Glorious Gate controlled access to the Forbidden City from the east
East Millstone, New Jersey canal village
East Millstone, New Jersey local commercial center for surrounding farms
Eastcheap, London meat market
Eastcheap, London provision market
Eastham ferry terminal ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Eastham leisure resort ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Eden shore-based whaling ("historicalActivity")
Ely, Nevada railroad hub for copper mines ("historicFunction")
Ettrick Forest hunting, pasturage, and refuge
Fells Point maritime trade hub
Fells Point shipbuilding center
Field of Mars military training ground
Field of Mars parade ground for Imperial Russian Army
Fipa people long-distance trade around Lake Tanganyika ("historicalActivity")
First Lord of the Admiralty chair of the Board of Admiralty
First Lord of the Admiralty political head of the Royal Navy
First Lord of the Treasury head of the Treasury commission ("hasHistoricalFunction")
First Trust Bank issuing its own banknotes ("historicalActivity")
Fishermen’s and Tanners’ Quarter artisan quarter
Former French Concession foreign concession
Former Lake Zumpango part of the hydrological regulation of the Valley of Mexico
Former Lake Zumpango support system for settlements in the northern Valley of Mexico
Fort Victoria military fort ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Fort Victoria trading post ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Francistown gold mining ("historicalActivity")
Francistown gold prospecting ("historicalActivity")
Fulton Market District food distribution hub
Fulton Market District meatpacking hub
Furness Peninsula iron ore extraction ("historicalActivity")
Furness Peninsula shipbuilding ("historicalActivity")
Furness Peninsula steel production ("historicalActivity")
Garden of Gethsemane olive grove ("functionHistorically")
General Electric broadcasting ownership through NBC ("historicalActivity")
General Electric manufacture of household appliances ("historicalActivity")
Georgengarten aristocratic garden ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Georgengarten landscape garden of the Electorate of Hanover ("hasHistoricalFunction")
German Colony, Haifa Christian Templer settlement
German Colony, Haifa agricultural colony
Gorée Island slave-trading centre ("majorHistoricalFunction")
Gorée Island trading post ("majorHistoricalFunction")
Graf (German-speaking countries) landowner
Graf (German-speaking countries) regional ruler
Grass Valley hard-rock gold mining ("historicalActivity")
Great Officer of State assist the king in governance
Great Officer of State command military forces
Great Officer of State manage royal finances
Great Officer of State manage royal household
Great Officers of State of the United Kingdom governance of the realm
Great Officers of State of the United Kingdom management of the royal household
Greenfield Township, Michigan local government unit in Wayne County, Michigan ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Grossglockner High Alpine Road to promote tourism in the Austrian Alps ("historicalPurpose")
Guarantee Clause to ensure stable republican governments in the states ("historicalPurpose")
Guarantee Clause to prevent establishment of monarchy or aristocracy in the states ("historicalPurpose")
Hale Urban District local authority ("historicFunction")
Heilbron rural political constituency
High Sheriff of Gloucestershire collection of certain royal revenues
High Sheriff of Gloucestershire execution of High Court writs
High Sheriff of Gloucestershire maintenance of law and order in Gloucestershire
High Sheriff of Gloucestershire organisation of county elections
Hiri Motu maritime trade along the Papuan coast
Histadrut major employer in the Yishuv economy
Histadrut operator of cooperative enterprises
Histadrut provider of health services
Histadrut umbrella organization for Jewish workers in Palestine
Household Troops personal bodyguard of the sovereign
Huangshi mining of copper ("historicalActivity")
Huangshi mining of iron ore ("historicalActivity")
Hundred of Nantwich framework for local courts ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Hundred of Nantwich framework for raising levies ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Hundred of Nantwich subdivision of county government ("hasHistoricalFunction")
IJ Bay estuary of the River IJ
IND Division to compete with IRT and BMT private subway companies ("historicalPurpose")
Innere Stadt walled city of Vienna
Jet Propulsion Laboratory development of early American rockets ("historicalActivity")
Jewish Autonomous Oblast territorial solution to the Jewish question in the USSR ("historicalPurpose")
Jordaan immigrant neighborhood
Jordaan working-class quarter
Kalymnos sponge fishing ("historicalActivity")
Kasbah of the Udayas military fortress ("primaryFunctionHistoric")
Kazimierz Jewish Quarter center of Jewish life in Kraków
Keeper of the Privy Purse control of royal household expenditure ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Keeper of the Privy Purse management of the monarch’s private purse ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Keeper of the Seals authentication of royal edicts ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Keeper of the Seals custody of royal seals ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Kel Adagh caravan trade ("historicalActivity")
Kel Adagh trans-Saharan pastoralism ("historicalActivity")
Kidron Valley drainage channel for Jerusalem ("functionInAntiquity")
King Street (Manchester) financial district of Manchester ("hasHistoricalFunction")
King Street (Manchester) location of major bank headquarters in Manchester ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Kingdom of Jaén administrative district of Castile
Kingdom of Jaén military frontier against al-Andalus
Kingston upon Thames administrative centre for Surrey Quarter Sessions ("historicFunction")
Kingston upon Thames judicial centre for Surrey ("historicFunction")
Knights of the shire participate in lawmaking
Knights of the shire participate in taxation decisions
Knights of the shire represent rural interests
Kronstadt control of access to Neva River
Kronstadt defense of Saint Petersburg
Königliches Museum public art museum
Lahaina Historic District missionary center
Lahaina Historic District royal residence area of the Kingdom of Hawaii
Lahaina Historic District whaling port
Lake of Tunis maritime access to Tunis
Lake of Tunis natural harbor
Langley Fork area local trade center
Langley Fork area stopping point for travelers
Lawrence mill city ("historicFunction")
Lawrence textile manufacturing center ("historicFunction")
Lithgow coal mining since late 19th century ("historicalActivity")
Long Wharf maritime trade center
Long Wharf port area
Long Wharf, Boston major commercial wharf
Long Wharf, Boston primary docking point for transatlantic ships
Longacre Square carriage-making district
Longacre Square horse-trading area
Lord Chancellor of England advising the monarch on legal matters
Lord Chancellor of England custody of the Great Seal
Lord Chancellor of England oversight of royal courts
Lord Chancellor of England presiding over the House of Lords in its judicial capacity
Lord Chancellor of England presiding over the House of Lords in its legislative capacity
Lord High Constable of England custody of prisoners of war
Lord High Constable of England head of the Court of Chivalry
Lord High Constable of England judge in matters of arms and armourial bearings
Lord High Constable of England military discipline
Lord High Constable of England oversight of tournaments and feats of arms
Lord High Constable of England regulation of heralds and officers of arms
Lord High Treasurer chief financial minister of the Crown
Lord High Treasurer control of government spending
Lord High Treasurer head of the royal treasury
Lord High Treasurer management of royal revenue
Lord High Treasurer supervision of tax collection
Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire local military leadership
Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire oversight of county militia
Lord Privy Seal authentication of royal documents with the privy seal ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Lord Privy Seal management of the privy seal ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Lord of Parliament member of the Scottish Estates of Parliament
Lord of Parliament member of the pre‑1707 Parliament of Scotland
Lucullan Villa in Campania elite retreat
Lucullan Villa in Campania imperial exile residence
Malate entertainment district
Malate residential area
Malate tourist district
Market Square in Wrocław medieval marketplace
Martyrs’ Square boundary between Muslim and Christian quarters of Beirut ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Meatpacking District meatpacking industry center
Meatpacking District wholesale meat markets
Michipicoten River link between interior waterways and Lake Superior ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Millionnaya Street administrative and ceremonial route near imperial court ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Millionnaya Street residential area for nobility ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Mirfield coal mining in surrounding area ("historicalActivity")
Mitchel Field complex aviation hub on Long Island
Mitchel Field complex major U.S. Army airfield
Mono people trade with neighboring tribes ("historicalActivity")
Museumplein exhibition grounds ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Museumplein ice skating area in winter ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Naminoue Shrine place of prayer for maritime safety
Nemocón pre-Columbian salt extraction ("historicalActivity")
Nevsky Gate main water gate of Peter and Paul Fortress ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Nevsky Gate prisoner transfer point ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Nevsky Gate site of prisoner executions ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Nile Valley cultural landscape economic hub ("hasFunctionInAntiquity")
Nile Valley cultural landscape political center ("hasFunctionInAntiquity")
Nile Valley cultural landscape religious center ("hasFunctionInAntiquity")
Nlaka'pamux fishing on Fraser River salmon runs ("historicalActivity")
Nlaka'pamux hunting and gathering ("historicalActivity")
Nlaka'pamux trade along Fraser Canyon trails ("historicalActivity")
Northern Cape diamond mining ("historicalActivity")
Northern Chile nitrate industry ("historicalActivity")
Odelsting main chamber for ordinary legislation in Norway
Odelsting part of a modified bicameral system within a formally unicameral parliament
Ojibwe alliances with British colonists ("historicalActivity")
Ojibwe alliances with French colonists ("historicalActivity")
Ojibwe fur trade participation ("historicalActivity")
Old Cambridge Historic District commercial hub for Cambridge
Old Cambridge Historic District residential center for Harvard faculty and students
Old Quarter craft guild center
Old Quarter trading hub
Old Sacramento commercial district
Old Sacramento river port
Old Sacramento transportation hub
Old Town Square execution site
Old Town Square marketplace
Ooltgensplaat local harbor settlement ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Orenburg Cossack forces frontier guard of the Russian Empire
Orenburg Cossack forces local militia in Orenburg region
Orford, Suffolk fishing village
Orford, Suffolk port
Oruro silver mining ("historicalActivity")
Oruro tin mining ("historicalActivity")
Palace of Heavenly Purity imperial audience chamber
Palace of Heavenly Purity residence of Ming emperors
Palace of Heavenly Purity residence of early Qing emperors
Palmyrene region buffer zone between empires
Palmyrene region trade corridor
Pariser Platz prestigious city entrance square
Petite France fishermens quarter
Petite France millers quarter
Petite France tanners quarter
Peugeot bicycle manufacturing ("historicalActivity")
Peugeot coffee mills ("historicalActivity")
Peugeot tool manufacturing ("historicalActivity")
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania political and financial center in the early United States
Place Lamartine public gathering place ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Place Lamartine traffic junction ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Praça do Comércio commercial hub
Praça do Comércio political center
Praça do Comércio royal reception area
Printers Row center of Chicago printing industry
Printers Row center of Chicago publishing industry
Ras Al Khaimah pearling ("historicalActivity")
Red Square marketplace
Red Square site of military parades
Red Square site of public ceremonies
Red Square site of public proclamations
Reuters use of carrier pigeons for financial news ("historicalActivity")
Ringvaart boundary of reclaimed land
Rondout–West Strand Historic District commercial center
Rondout–West Strand Historic District residential neighborhood
Royal Almonry distribution of alms to the poor on behalf of the sovereign
Royal Almonry management of royal charitable funds
Rumford Falls neighborhood manufacturing center ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Rumford Falls neighborhood paper mill center ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Saint Anthony Falls power source for flour mills
Saint Anthony Falls power source for sawmills
Samarkand cultural center of the Timurid Empire
Samarkand major commercial center of Central Asia
Sarona Templer agricultural colony ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Scheibler Palace residence of industrialist family ("historicFunction")
Secretary of the Admiralty central administrative hub for Admiralty paperwork
Secretary of the Admiralty key link between policy-making Sea Lords and Admiralty departments
Secretary of the Admiralty supporting governance of the Royal Navy
Sibyl Rock traditional place of prophetic utterances ("functionInAntiquity")
Somers Town, London, England centre of radical thought
Somers Town, London, England refuge for political exiles
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands whaling ("historicalActivity")
Southeastern Colorado cattle drives ("historicalActivity")
Southeastern Colorado railroad expansion ("historicalActivity")
Springs coal mining ("historicalActivity")
Springs deep-level gold mining ("historicalActivity")
Spuyten Duyvil Creek navigation channel between Hudson River and Harlem River
St Saviour, Southwark local administrative unit
St Saviour, Southwark parish for residents south of London Bridge
Stadium of Delphi venue for Panhellenic games ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Swinton handloom weaving ("historicalActivity")
Teatro Romano di Trieste civic space ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Teatro Romano di Trieste entertainment venue ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Theodosia commercial hub
Theodosia maritime trade center
Tiber Island medical and hospital center
Tiber Island religious center in ancient Rome
Treasurer of the United States management of the Treasury cash balance (historically) ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Treasurer of the United States signing United States currency ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Turku and Pori Province regional state administration
Turnu-Severin customs town ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Turnu-Severin frontier fortress ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Uvinza salt extraction ("historicalActivity")
Uvinza salt trade ("historicalActivity")
Veendam agriculture ("historicalActivity")
Veendam peat extraction ("historicalActivity")
Veendam peat trade ("historicalActivity")
Veendam shipping ("historicalActivity")
Via Aemilia link between Adriatic coast and Po River region
Vianen fortified town ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Vianen trading town ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household hostage at the royal court during the State Opening of Parliament ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Village of Dearborn local administrative unit ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Virginia Range gold mining ("historicalActivity")
Virginia Range silver mining ("historicalActivity")
Weespertrekvaart towpath canal for horse-drawn barges
Weespertrekvaart transport route between Amsterdam and Weesp
Western Union cablegram services ("historicalActivity")
Western Union telegram delivery ("historicalActivity")
Western Union telegraph services ("historicalActivity")
Weyerhaeuser Company logging ("historicalActivity")
Weyerhaeuser Company paper and packaging production ("historicalActivity")
White Oak Flats frontier farming community
Windlestone Hall family seat ("hasHistoricalFunction")
Woolston, Southampton marine engineering ("historicalActivity")
Woolston, Southampton ship repair ("historicalActivity")
Woolwich, Maine shipbuilding ("historicalActivity")
Zakros administrative center ("functionInAntiquity")
Zakros port for eastern trade ("functionInAntiquity")
Zakros redistributive center ("functionInAntiquity")
Zelenogradsky Administrative Okrug science and technology hub
Zhob regional trade center
Zhob strategic frontier outpost
coat of arms of the canton of Geneva symbol of sovereignty of Geneva
Škoda bicycle manufacturing ("historicalActivity")
Škoda commercial vehicle manufacturing ("historicalActivity")
Škoda motorcycle manufacturing ("historicalActivity")
Žiča Monastery coronation church of Serbian kings ("historicFunction")
Žiča Monastery seat of the first Serbian archbishopric ("historicFunction")

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