Sewell's Point, Norfolk, Virginia

E400338

exposition geographic location historic district naval base peninsula world's fair

Sewell's Point in Norfolk, Virginia is a historic peninsula on Hampton Roads best known as the site of the 1907 Jamestown Exposition and later major U.S. naval installations.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Sewell's Point, Norfolk, Virginia canonical	3

Statements (37)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	exposition ⓘ geographic location ⓘ historic district ⓘ naval base ⓘ peninsula ⓘ world's fair ⓘ
adjacentTo	Newport News, Virginia ⓘ surface form: Newport News, Virginia (across Hampton Roads) Portsmouth, Virginia ⓘ surface form: Portsmouth, Virginia (across Elizabeth River)
commemorates	300th anniversary of Jamestown settlement ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
hasCurrentUse	active naval base area ⓘ
hasEvent	Jamestown Exposition ⓘ surface form: Jamestown Exposition of 1907
hasHeritage	site of major early 1900s exposition grounds ⓘ
hasNameOrigin	named after the Sewell family (historical landowners) ⓘ
hasPart	Naval Station Norfolk ⓘ
hasTransportationConnection	Hampton Roads estuary ⓘ surface form: Port of Hampton Roads
heldAt	Sewell's Point, Norfolk, Virginia self-linksurface differs ⓘ
historicalPeriod	early 20th century naval expansion ⓘ
inception	1907 ⓘ
knownFor	Jamestown Exposition ⓘ surface form: Jamestown Exposition of 1907 major U.S. naval installations ⓘ role in development of Naval Station Norfolk ⓘ
locatedIn	Virginia ⓘ surface form: Commonwealth of Virginia Hampton Roads ⓘ surface form: Hampton Roads region Norfolk, Virginia ⓘ Sewell's Point, Norfolk, Virginia self-linksurface differs ⓘ
locatedNear	Chesapeake Bay ⓘ Elizabeth River ⓘ
locatedOnBodyOfWater	Hampton Roads ⓘ
operator	United States Navy ⓘ
partOf	Norfolk ⓘ surface form: Norfolk metropolitan area Tidewater Virginia ⓘ United States Fleet Forces Command infrastructure ⓘ
strategicImportance	access to Chesapeake Bay ⓘ control of entrance to Hampton Roads ⓘ
usedFor	military purposes ⓘ naval operations ⓘ

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: Sewell's Point, Norfolk, Virginia
Description of subject: Sewell's Point in Norfolk, Virginia is a historic peninsula on Hampton Roads best known as the site of the 1907 Jamestown Exposition and later major U.S. naval installations.

Referenced by (3)

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

Jamestown Exposition → locatedIn → Sewell's Point, Norfolk, Virginia ⓘ

Sewell's Point, Norfolk, Virginia → heldAt → Sewell's Point, Norfolk, Virginia self-linksurface differs ⓘ

subject surface form: Jamestown Exposition of 1907

Sewell's Point, Norfolk, Virginia → locatedIn → Sewell's Point, Norfolk, Virginia self-linksurface differs ⓘ

subject surface form: Naval Station Norfolk