Wei Hai Wei

E78619

British colonial possession leased territory naval base port

Wei Hai Wei was a former British-leased naval base and port on the northeastern coast of China, held from the late 19th to early 20th century as part of Britain’s Asian colonial presence.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Wei Hai Wei canonical	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British colonial possession ⓘ leased territory ⓘ naval base ⓘ port ⓘ
administrativeStatus	British-leased territory ⓘ separate British administration from Hong Kong ⓘ
climate	temperate maritime climate ⓘ
colonialPower	United Kingdom ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
currencyUsed	Chinese currency ⓘ Hong Kong dollar ⓘ
garrisonedBy	British Army ⓘ British Indian Army ⓘ surface form: British Indian Army units locally raised Chinese regiment under British command ⓘ
governedBy	British Commissioner ⓘ
historicalEra	early 20th century ⓘ late 19th century ⓘ
languageOfAdministration	English ⓘ
leasedFrom	Qing dynasty ⓘ
leaseDuration	32 years ⓘ
leaseEndDate	1930-10-01 ⓘ
leaseStartDate	1898-07-01 ⓘ
legalBasis	Convention of Peking ⓘ surface form: Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory and related agreements
localLanguages	Chinese ⓘ
locatedIn	China ⓘ Shandong Peninsula ⓘ Weihai ⓘ
locatedOn	Yellow Sea ⓘ northeastern coast of China ⓘ
modernCountry	China ⓘ surface form: People's Republic of China
modernName	Weihai ⓘ
nearbyFeature	Liu-kung Tao (Liugong Island) ⓘ
notableConflictContext	Great Game ⓘ surface form: Great Game in East Asia Scramble for Concessions in China ⓘ
opposedPower	Russian Empire ⓘ
partOf	British Empire ⓘ surface form: British Empire in Asia British informal sphere of influence in North China ⓘ
primaryFunction	coaling station ⓘ fleet anchorage ⓘ summer station for the China Station fleet ⓘ
primaryNavalBaseLocation	Liu-kung Tao (Liugong Island) ⓘ surface form: Liugong Island
relatedPort	Hong Kong, China ⓘ surface form: Hong Kong Port Arthur ⓘ
returnedTo	Republic of China ⓘ
returnYear	1930 ⓘ
strategicPurpose	counterbalance to Russian presence at Port Arthur ⓘ naval base against Russian expansion in the Far East ⓘ support for British interests in North China ⓘ
usedBy	Royal Navy ⓘ

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: Wei Hai Wei
Description of subject: Wei Hai Wei was a former British-leased naval base and port on the northeastern coast of China, held from the late 19th to early 20th century as part of Britain’s Asian colonial presence.

Referenced by (1)

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

Asia (colonial possessions) → includes → Wei Hai Wei ⓘ