Minnesota Territory
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Minnesota Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from 1849 to 1858 that encompassed present-day Minnesota and parts of the Dakotas before statehood.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Minnesota Territory canonical | 34 |
| Minnesota Territory region (later state of Minnesota) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4967691 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Minnesota Territory Context triple: [Northwest Territory, followedBy, Minnesota Territory]
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Nebraska Territory
Nebraska Territory was a mid-19th-century U.S. organized incorporated territory that once encompassed much of the northern Great Plains before being gradually reduced to form the state of Nebraska and parts of several other states.
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Missouri Territory
The Missouri Territory was a vast early-19th-century U.S. territorial jurisdiction in the central and western regions of North America that preceded the creation of several Midwestern and Great Plains states.
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Dakota Territory
Dakota Territory was a 19th-century organized incorporated territory of the United States that once encompassed the areas that later became North Dakota, South Dakota, and parts of neighboring states.
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Iowa Territory
Iowa Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from 1838 to 1846 that encompassed present-day Iowa and parts of surrounding states before Iowa achieved statehood.
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Kansas Territory
Kansas Territory was a mid-19th-century U.S. territorial region that became a focal point of violent conflict over slavery’s expansion before eventually entering the Union as the state of Kansas.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Minnesota Territory Target entity description: Minnesota Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from 1849 to 1858 that encompassed present-day Minnesota and parts of the Dakotas before statehood.
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A.
Nebraska Territory
Nebraska Territory was a mid-19th-century U.S. organized incorporated territory that once encompassed much of the northern Great Plains before being gradually reduced to form the state of Nebraska and parts of several other states.
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Missouri Territory
The Missouri Territory was a vast early-19th-century U.S. territorial jurisdiction in the central and western regions of North America that preceded the creation of several Midwestern and Great Plains states.
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C.
Dakota Territory
Dakota Territory was a 19th-century organized incorporated territory of the United States that once encompassed the areas that later became North Dakota, South Dakota, and parts of neighboring states.
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D.
Iowa Territory
Iowa Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from 1838 to 1846 that encompassed present-day Iowa and parts of surrounding states before Iowa achieved statehood.
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Kansas Territory
Kansas Territory was a mid-19th-century U.S. territorial region that became a focal point of violent conflict over slavery’s expansion before eventually entering the Union as the state of Kansas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Minnesota Territory Description of subject: Minnesota Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from 1849 to 1858 that encompassed present-day Minnesota and parts of the Dakotas before statehood.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.