Billingsgate Market

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Billingsgate Market is London’s historic wholesale fish market, renowned as one of the largest and most famous seafood markets in the United Kingdom.

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Label Occurrences
Billingsgate Market canonical 2

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf market
wholesale fish market
allowsPublicAccess true
closedOn Monday
Sunday
country United Kingdom
formerLocation City of London
Lower Thames Street
governedBy Corporation of London
surface form: City of London Corporation
grantedLegalStatusAsMarket 1699
hasAddress Trafalgar Way, London E14 5ST, United Kingdom
hasFacility cafés
cold storage
freezer rooms
loading bays
parking area
seafood training school
trading hall
hasHistoricalOriginCentury 16th century
hasNumberOfTradersApproximate 100
hasOfficialWebsite https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/billingsgate-market
hasProductRange fresh fish
frozen seafood
seafood-related products
shellfish
smoked fish
heritageStatus historic London market
isOneOfLargestOfTypeIn United Kingdom
locatedIn Canary Wharf
London, England
surface form: London

London Borough of Tower Hamlets
locatedInTimeZone Europe/London
locatedNear Canary Wharf tube station
surface form: Canary Wharf Underground Station

Poplar Dock
Thames
surface form: River Thames
locatedOn Isle of Dogs
marketType wholesale
notableFor colourful market language
historic trading traditions
large variety of fresh fish
openingYearAtCurrentSite 1982
operatedBy Corporation of London
surface form: City of London Corporation
ownedBy Corporation of London
surface form: City of London Corporation
primaryCustomers caterers
fishmongers
restaurants
relocatedFrom Billingsgate
surface form: Billingsgate, City of London
specializesIn fish
seafood
typicalOpeningDays Tuesday to Saturday
typicalOpeningHoursEnd 08:30
typicalOpeningHoursStart 04:00

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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: Billingsgate Market
Description of subject: Billingsgate Market is London’s historic wholesale fish market, renowned as one of the largest and most famous seafood markets in the United Kingdom.

Referenced by (2)

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

Corporation of London hasPart Billingsgate Market
subject surface form: City of London Corporation
Horace Jones notableWork Billingsgate Market