Arthur Phillip

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Royal Navy officer colonial governor human

Arthur Phillip was a British Royal Navy officer and the first Governor of New South Wales who led the First Fleet and established the initial European settlement in Australia.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Arthur Phillip canonical	21

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Royal Navy officer ⓘ colonial governor ⓘ human ⓘ
birthDate	1738-10-11 ⓘ
birthPlace	England ⓘ Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ London, England ⓘ surface form: London
burialPlace	St Nicholas Church, Bathampton ⓘ
commanded	Landing of the First Fleet ⓘ surface form: First Fleet
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ
deathDate	1814-08-31 ⓘ
deathPlace	Bath ⓘ England ⓘ Somerset ⓘ
education	Greenwich Hospital School ⓘ
employer	Government of the Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ surface form: British government Royal Navy ⓘ
endTime	1792-12-10 ⓘ
familyName	Phillip ⓘ
givenName	Arthur ⓘ
hasHeritage	German ancestry ⓘ
honouredIn	statues and memorials in Sydney ⓘ suburb of Phillip, Australian Capital Territory ⓘ
knownFor	being first Governor of New South Wales ⓘ founding European settlement at Sydney ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ
militaryBranch	Royal Navy ⓘ
militaryRank	Admiral ⓘ
monarchDuringTerm	George III of the United Kingdom ⓘ surface form: George III
name	Arthur Phillip self-link ⓘ
nationality	British ⓘ
notableEvent	founded the penal colony at Port Jackson ⓘ led the First Fleet to Australia ⓘ oversaw establishment of Sydney Cove ⓘ
notableWork	establishment of the first permanent European settlement in Australia ⓘ
occupation	colonial administrator ⓘ naval officer ⓘ
participatedIn	Anglo-Spanish War (1779–1783) ⓘ Seven Years' War ⓘ
positionHeld	Governor of New South Wales ⓘ first Governor of New South Wales ⓘ
reasonForNotability	key figure in early British colonisation of Australia ⓘ
residence	Bath ⓘ Sydney Harbour ⓘ surface form: Port Jackson Sydney Cove ⓘ
spouse	Isabella Whitehead ⓘ Margaret Denison ⓘ
startTime	1788-01-26 ⓘ

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: Arthur Phillip
Description of subject: Arthur Phillip was a British Royal Navy officer and the first Governor of New South Wales who led the First Fleet and established the initial European settlement in Australia.

Referenced by (21)

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

Sydney → foundedBy → Arthur Phillip ⓘ

Sydney Cove → namedBy → Arthur Phillip ⓘ

Governor of New South Wales → firstHolder → Arthur Phillip ⓘ

Foundation Day → relatedPerson → Arthur Phillip ⓘ

Arthur Phillip → name → Arthur Phillip self-link ⓘ

Landing of the First Fleet → fleetCommander → Arthur Phillip ⓘ

Landing of the First Fleet → commandedBy → Arthur Phillip ⓘ

Proclamation of the Colony of New South Wales → issuedBy → Arthur Phillip ⓘ

Proclamation of the Colony of New South Wales → relatedTo → Arthur Phillip ⓘ

Woollarawarre Bennelong → metWith → Arthur Phillip ⓘ

Bennelong → traveledWith → Arthur Phillip ⓘ

Phillip → name → Arthur Phillip ⓘ

subject surface form: Arthur Phillip

St Nicholas Church, Bathampton → burialPlaceOf → Arthur Phillip ⓘ

Borrowdale (ship) → fleetCommander → Arthur Phillip ⓘ

subject surface form: Borrowdale

Royal Commission to Arthur Phillip → appointed → Arthur Phillip ⓘ

Isabella Whitehead → spouse → Arthur Phillip ⓘ

Governor Arthur Phillip → fullName → Arthur Phillip ⓘ

subject surface form: Arthur Phillip

HMS Sirius → commandedBy → Arthur Phillip ⓘ

HMS Sirius → carriedGovernor → Arthur Phillip ⓘ

Margaret Denison → spouse → Arthur Phillip ⓘ

Colony of New South Wales → firstGovernor → Arthur Phillip ⓘ