Old Point Comfort

E180472

geographic location historic site promontory

Old Point Comfort is a historic strategic promontory at the mouth of Hampton Roads in southeastern Virginia, long used as a coastal defense site and navigational landmark.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Old Point Comfort canonical	5

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geographic location ⓘ historic site ⓘ promontory ⓘ
administeredBy	Hampton ⓘ surface form: City of Hampton
associatedWithEvent	arrival of first recorded Africans in English North America in 1619 vicinity ⓘ
associatedWithFort	Fort Monroe, Virginia ⓘ surface form: Fort Monroe
associatedWithWar	American Civil War ⓘ War of 1812 ⓘ
category	Headlands of Virginia ⓘ History of Hampton, Virginia ⓘ Landforms of Hampton, Virginia ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
hasCoordinateLatitude	36.9667 ⓘ
hasCoordinateLongitude	-76.3042 ⓘ
hasFeature	low-lying peninsula ⓘ sandy point ⓘ
hasFunction	harbor defense position ⓘ military outpost ⓘ navigation aid ⓘ
hasHistoricalRole	harbor entrance guardian ⓘ strategic military site ⓘ
hasHistoricUseSince	17th century ⓘ
hasLighthouse	Old Point Comfort Lighthouse ⓘ
hasNameOrigin	named by English colonists in early 17th century ⓘ
hasStructure	Fort Monroe, Virginia ⓘ surface form: Fort Monroe Old Point Comfort Lighthouse ⓘ
locatedAtMouthOf	Hampton Roads ⓘ
locatedIn	Hampton ⓘ Hampton Roads ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States Virginia ⓘ Southeastern Virginia ⓘ surface form: southeastern Virginia
locatedOn	Chesapeake Bay ⓘ
mouthOf	Elizabeth River ⓘ James River ⓘ Nansemond River ⓘ
near	Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel ⓘ Newport News, Virginia ⓘ surface form: Newport News Norfolk ⓘ
overlooks	Hampton Roads estuary ⓘ surface form: Chesapeake Bay entrance Hampton Roads estuary ⓘ surface form: Hampton Roads harbor
partOf	Fort Monroe National Monument ⓘ
region	Tidewater Virginia ⓘ
state	Virginia ⓘ
usedAs	coastal defense site ⓘ navigational landmark ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

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# 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: Old Point Comfort
Description of subject: Old Point Comfort is a historic strategic promontory at the mouth of Hampton Roads in southeastern Virginia, long used as a coastal defense site and navigational landmark.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Fort Monroe, Virginia → locatedOn → Old Point Comfort ⓘ

Hampton → hasHistoricSite → Old Point Comfort ⓘ

Freedom’s Fortress → near → Old Point Comfort ⓘ

Fortress Monroe → nearbyLandmark → Old Point Comfort ⓘ

Casemate Museum → near → Old Point Comfort ⓘ