Esquimalt Harbour

E317461

body of water natural harbour

Esquimalt Harbour is a natural harbour on the southern tip of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, that serves as a major base and operational hub for the Royal Canadian Navy.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Esquimalt Harbour canonical	9
Esquimalt Harbour Regulations	1
Esquimalt shoreline	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	body of water ⓘ natural harbour ⓘ
adjacentTo	Colwood, British Columbia ⓘ surface form: City of Colwood City of Esquimalt ⓘ Victoria metropolitan area ⓘ surface form: Greater Victoria
associatedWith	Esquimalt Nation ⓘ Songhees First Nation ⓘ
connectedTo	Juan de Fuca Strait ⓘ Salish Sea ⓘ
country	Canada ⓘ
feature	deep, sheltered anchorage ⓘ graving dock ⓘ natural protection from open ocean ⓘ naval dockyard infrastructure ⓘ piers and jetties ⓘ
governedBy	Department of National Defence ⓘ surface form: Department of National Defence (Canada)
hasEntrance	Royal Roads ⓘ
hasFacility	CFB Esquimalt ⓘ CFB Esquimalt ⓘ surface form: HMC Dockyard Esquimalt
hasNameOrigin	Indigenous word related to the local First Nations ⓘ
historicalUse	Imperial naval station ⓘ Royal Navy base ⓘ coaling station for the Royal Navy ⓘ
locatedIn	British Columbia ⓘ Esquimalt, Canada ⓘ surface form: Esquimalt, British Columbia Pacific Northwest ⓘ Vancouver Island ⓘ
locatedOn	southern tip of Vancouver Island ⓘ
militaryDistrict	Maritime Forces Pacific ⓘ
near	Esquimalt Lagoon ⓘ Fisgard Lighthouse ⓘ Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site ⓘ Victoria Harbour ⓘ Victoria, British Columbia ⓘ
partOf	Juan de Fuca Strait ⓘ surface form: Strait of Juan de Fuca water system
primaryFunction	logistics hub for maritime forces ⓘ maintenance and repair of naval vessels ⓘ support of Canadian naval operations in the Pacific ⓘ
regulatedBy	Esquimalt Harbour self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Esquimalt Harbour Regulations
role	Pacific coast home port for Royal Canadian Navy ⓘ major naval base ⓘ operational hub for the Royal Canadian Navy ⓘ
strategicImportance	defence of Canada’s Pacific coast ⓘ key Canadian Pacific naval facility ⓘ
transferredTo	Royal Canadian Navy ⓘ
usedBy	Canadian Coast Guard ⓘ Royal Canadian Navy ⓘ
waterBodyType	coastal inlet ⓘ

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: Esquimalt Harbour
Description of subject: Esquimalt Harbour is a natural harbour on the southern tip of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, that serves as a major base and operational hub for the Royal Canadian Navy.

Referenced by (11)

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

Naval Officer Training Centre Venture → locatedNear → Esquimalt Harbour ⓘ

CFB Esquimalt → hasHarbour → Esquimalt Harbour ⓘ

Esquimalt, Canada → hasCoastlineOn → Esquimalt Harbour ⓘ

subject surface form: Esquimalt

Esquimalt, Canada → hasPort → Esquimalt Harbour ⓘ

subject surface form: Esquimalt

Songhees Nation → significantWaterBody → Esquimalt Harbour ⓘ

Victoria Harbour → hasPart → Esquimalt Harbour ⓘ

View Royal → isLocatedNear → Esquimalt Harbour ⓘ

Esquimalt Harbour → regulatedBy → Esquimalt Harbour self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Esquimalt Harbour Regulations

Francisco de Eliza → exploredRegion → Esquimalt Harbour ⓘ

Old Esquimalt → near → Esquimalt Harbour ⓘ

Saxe Point → adjacentTo → Esquimalt Harbour ⓘ

this entity surface form: Esquimalt shoreline