British penal colony

C39491
concept

A British penal colony is a distant settlement established by the British government primarily to confine, punish, and exploit the labor of transported convicts.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
British penal colony canonical 2

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: British penal colony
Generated description
A British penal colony is a distant settlement established by the British government primarily to confine, punish, and exploit the labor of transported convicts.

Instances (2)

Instance Via concept surface
John Frost
surface form: Van Diemen's Land
Moreton Bay penal settlement