USS Petrel

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USS Petrel was a U.S. Navy gunboat best known for its service in the Asiatic Squadron during the Spanish–American War, including action at the Battle of Manila Bay.

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Label Occurrences
USS Petrel canonical 1

Statements (37)

Predicate Object
instanceOf United States Navy ship
gunboat
warship
allegiance United States of America
surface form: United States
armedWith naval guns
battle Battle of Manila Bay
category Gunboats of the United States Navy
Ships involved in the Battle of Manila Bay
Spanish–American War naval ship of the United States
commissioned 1889
conflict Spanish–American War
country United States of America
decommissioned 1919
era 19th century warship
Spanish–American War era ship
hullMaterial steel
launched 1888
locationDuringBattle Manila Bay
navalPower United States Asiatic Fleet
surface form: United States Asiatic Squadron
navalTheater Asiatic Station
notableFor participation in the Battle of Manila Bay
service in the Asiatic Squadron during the Spanish–American War
operator United States Navy
opponent Spanish Empire
partOf Asiatic Squadron
roleAtBattleOfManilaBay engaged Spanish naval forces
engaged Spanish shore batteries
serviceBranch United States Navy
serviceEndCentury 20th century
serviceStartCentury 19th century
shipType gunboat
theaterOfOperations Philippine waters
western Pacific Ocean
surface form: Western Pacific Ocean
usedFor blockade operations
patrol duties
shore bombardment
victorySide United States of America
surface form: United States

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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: USS Petrel
Description of subject: USS Petrel was a U.S. Navy gunboat best known for its service in the Asiatic Squadron during the Spanish–American War, including action at the Battle of Manila Bay.

Referenced by (1)

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

Asiatic Squadron notableShip USS Petrel