New Fortress of Corfu

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fortress historical monument military stronghold

The New Fortress of Corfu is a Venetian-era military stronghold overlooking the old port of Corfu, built in the 16th century to bolster the island’s defenses against Ottoman attacks.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
New Fortress of Corfu canonical	3
Νέο Φρούριο Κέρκυρας	1

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	fortress ⓘ historical monument ⓘ military stronghold ⓘ
architecturalStyle	Venetian military architecture ⓘ
builtBy	Republic of Venice ⓘ
builtFor	defense of Corfu ⓘ protection against Ottoman attacks ⓘ
category	Buildings and structures in Corfu ⓘ Fortifications in Greece ⓘ
constructionStartCentury	16th century ⓘ
controlledHistoric	Republic of Venice ⓘ surface form: Venetian Republic
country	Greece ⓘ
currentUse	cultural venue ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ
era	Renaissance ⓘ
hasAccess	pedestrian paths from Corfu old town ⓘ
hasFeature	bastions ⓘ casemates ⓘ ramparts ⓘ underground passages ⓘ
hasFunction	military defense ⓘ
hasNameInGreek	New Fortress of Corfu self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Νέο Φρούριο Κέρκυρας
hasView	Corfu (city) ⓘ surface form: Corfu town Ionian Sea ⓘ
heritage	Venetian-era ⓘ
locatedIn	Corfu ⓘ Corfu (city) ⓘ surface form: Corfu city Greece ⓘ Ionian Islands ⓘ
material	stone ⓘ
near	Old Fortress of Corfu ⓘ
openToPublic	yes ⓘ
operator	Republic of Venice ⓘ
overlooks	Corfu Port ⓘ surface form: old port of Corfu
partOf	defensive system of Corfu ⓘ fortifications of Corfu ⓘ
region	Ionian Islands ⓘ surface form: Ionian Islands administrative region
significance	important example of Venetian coastal fortification ⓘ key element in defense against Ottoman Empire ⓘ
situatedOn	hill above the old port of Corfu ⓘ
strategicRole	control of maritime approaches to Corfu port ⓘ
tourism	popular sightseeing site in Corfu ⓘ
usedFor	military garrison ⓘ storage of munitions ⓘ

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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
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- 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: New Fortress of Corfu
Description of subject: The New Fortress of Corfu is a Venetian-era military stronghold overlooking the old port of Corfu, built in the 16th century to bolster the island’s defenses against Ottoman attacks.

Referenced by (4)

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

Corfu (city) → hasPart → New Fortress of Corfu ⓘ

Corfu (city) → touristAttraction → New Fortress of Corfu ⓘ

New Fortress of Corfu → hasNameInGreek → New Fortress of Corfu self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Νέο Φρούριο Κέρκυρας

Old Town of Corfu → notableFeature → New Fortress of Corfu ⓘ