Somerset Levels

E194884

coastal plain geographical region wetland

The Somerset Levels are a low-lying coastal plain and wetland area in southwest England, known for their extensive drainage ditches, rich wildlife habitats, and history of flooding.

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All labels observed (10)

Label	Occurrences
Somerset Levels canonical	17
Somerset Levels and Moors	5
Somerset Levels area	2
Sedgemoor	1
Somerset Levels and Moors National Character Area (adjacent)	1
Somerset Levels and Moors Ramsar site	1
Somerset Levels and Moors SSSI network	1
Somerset Levels and Moors drainage system	1
Somerset Levels and Moors landscape	1
Somerset Moors	1

Statements (80)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	coastal plain ⓘ geographical region ⓘ wetland ⓘ
containsSite	Avalon Marshes ⓘ Catcott, Edington and Chilton Moors ⓘ Glastonbury Tor ⓘ surface form: Glastonbury Tor (surrounding lowlands) Ham Wall RSPB Reserve ⓘ Sedgemoor ⓘ surface form: King's Sedgemoor Sedgemoor ⓘ Shapwick Heath National Nature Reserve ⓘ Tealham and Tadham Moors ⓘ Westhay Moor National Nature Reserve ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
drainedBy	Huntspill River NERFINISHED ⓘ King's Sedgemoor Drain ⓘ River Axe ⓘ River Brue ⓘ River Parrett ⓘ River Tone ⓘ
elevation	mostly below 6 metres above sea level ⓘ
geology	alluvial deposits ⓘ marine clays ⓘ peat deposits ⓘ
hasClimate	temperate maritime climate ⓘ
hasConservationStatus	Ramsar Wetland of International Importance ⓘ surface form: Ramsar wetland of international importance (parts) Site of Special Scientific Interest (parts) ⓘ Special Protection Area ⓘ surface form: Special Protection Area (parts)
hasEcosystemType	fen ⓘ grazing marsh ⓘ reedbed ⓘ wet grassland ⓘ
hasFeature	drainage ditches ⓘ peat moors ⓘ rhynes ⓘ salt marsh ⓘ tidal rivers ⓘ wet grassland ⓘ
hasHistoricalEvent	Battle of Sedgemoor ⓘ major floods of 2013–2014 ⓘ
hasHistoricalUse	Roman drainage works ⓘ medieval monastic drainage ⓘ peat cutting ⓘ prehistoric wetland occupation ⓘ
hasLandscapeType	low-lying plain ⓘ
hasLandUse	arable farming ⓘ dairy farming ⓘ livestock grazing ⓘ peat extraction (historical and reduced) ⓘ
hasTown	Bridgwater ⓘ Burnham-on-Sea ⓘ Glastonbury ⓘ
hasTransportRoute	M5 motorway (nearby) ⓘ
hasVillage	Burrowbridge ⓘ Meare ⓘ Shapwick ⓘ Westonzoyland ⓘ
highestPointElevation	about 8 metres above sea level ⓘ
importantFor	bitterns ⓘ marsh harriers ⓘ otters ⓘ wading birds ⓘ wintering waterfowl ⓘ
knownFor	extensive drainage system ⓘ flooding ⓘ historic wetlands reclamation ⓘ rich wildlife habitats ⓘ
locatedIn	Somerset ⓘ southwest England ⓘ surface form: South West England
locatedOn	Bristol Channel ⓘ
managedBy	Environment Agency (England) ⓘ surface form: Environment Agency Internal Drainage Boards ⓘ
near	Mendip Hills ⓘ Polden Hills ⓘ Quantock Hills ⓘ
partOf	Somerset Levels self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Somerset Levels and Moors Somerset Levels self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Somerset Levels and Moors Ramsar site
protectedBy	river embankments ⓘ sea defences ⓘ
subjectTo	tidal flooding risk ⓘ winter flooding ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Somerset Levels
Description of subject: The Somerset Levels are a low-lying coastal plain and wetland area in southwest England, known for their extensive drainage ditches, rich wildlife habitats, and history of flooding.

Referenced by (31)

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

Ceremonial county of Somerset → contains → Somerset Levels ⓘ

Battle of Sedgemoor → geographicalFeature → Somerset Levels ⓘ

Somerset → containsWetland → Somerset Levels ⓘ

North Somerset → borders → Somerset Levels ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sedgemoor

Langport → hasNearbyWaterway → Somerset Levels ⓘ

A361 → regionServed → Somerset Levels ⓘ

Glastonbury → region → Somerset Levels ⓘ

Glastonbury Tor → overlooks → Somerset Levels ⓘ

Glastonbury Tor → hasViewOf → Somerset Levels ⓘ

Mendip Hills → partOf → Somerset Levels ⓘ

this entity surface form: Somerset Levels and Moors landscape

Mendip Hills → overlooks → Somerset Levels ⓘ

River Tone → passesThrough → Somerset Levels ⓘ

River Tone → ecoregion → Somerset Levels ⓘ

this entity surface form: Somerset Levels and Moors

Somerset Levels → partOf → Somerset Levels self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Somerset Levels and Moors

Somerset Levels → partOf → Somerset Levels self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Somerset Levels and Moors Ramsar site

Somerset Council area → contains → Somerset Levels ⓘ

Westonzoyland → partOf → Somerset Levels ⓘ

Westonzoyland → locatedOn → Somerset Levels ⓘ

this entity surface form: Somerset Levels and Moors

Burton Pynsent, Somerset → hasViewOf → Somerset Levels ⓘ

Burton Pynsent, Somerset → region → Somerset Levels ⓘ

this entity surface form: Somerset Levels and Moors

River Parrett → drainageBasin → Somerset Levels ⓘ

River Parrett → partOf → Somerset Levels ⓘ

this entity surface form: Somerset Levels and Moors drainage system

River Parrett → nearbyProtectedArea → Somerset Levels ⓘ

this entity surface form: Somerset Levels and Moors SSSI network

Muchelney Abbey → locatedIn → Somerset Levels ⓘ

Blackdown Hills → region → Somerset Levels ⓘ

this entity surface form: Somerset Levels and Moors National Character Area (adjacent)

River Brue → flowsThrough → Somerset Levels ⓘ

this entity surface form: Somerset Moors

River Brue → crosses → Somerset Levels ⓘ

this entity surface form: Somerset Levels and Moors

River Brue → hasFloodRisk → Somerset Levels ⓘ

Lindinis → locatedIn → Somerset Levels ⓘ

this entity surface form: Somerset Levels area

Ilchester Mead → region → Somerset Levels ⓘ

this entity surface form: Somerset Levels area