Sandwich Island (colonial era)

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Sandwich Island (colonial era) was the former European colonial name for the Pacific island now known as Efate in Vanuatu.

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Label Occurrences
Sandwich Island (colonial era) canonical 1

Statements (24)

Predicate Object
instanceOf former colonial name
historical geographic name
appliesTo island
main island of Vanuatu
continent Oceania
coordinateWith Efate NERFINISHED
country Vanuatu NERFINISHED
hasCurrentOfficialName Efate NERFINISHED
hasModernCountry Vanuatu NERFINISHED
historicalStatus obsolete toponym
languageOfName English
locatedIn Efate NERFINISHED
Melanesia
New Hebrides (colonial era) NERFINISHED
Pacific Ocean
namedBy European colonizers
partOf Vanuatu archipelago NERFINISHED
presentDayName Efate NERFINISHED
regionType island
relatedTo New Hebrides (former name of Vanuatu) NERFINISHED
replacedBy Efate NERFINISHED
usedBefore independence of Vanuatu
usedBy European explorers
usedInPeriod colonial era

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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: Sandwich Island (colonial era)
Description of subject: Sandwich Island (colonial era) was the former European colonial name for the Pacific island now known as Efate in Vanuatu.

Referenced by (1)

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

Efate historicalName Sandwich Island (colonial era)