Governor of Ceylon

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colonial office government position viceregal representative

The Governor of Ceylon was the British Crown’s chief colonial administrator and representative in Ceylon, overseeing its governance during the period of British rule.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Governor of Ceylon canonical	10
Governor of British Ceylon	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	colonial office ⓘ government position ⓘ viceregal representative ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	Sri Lanka ⓘ surface form: Ceylon
appointedBy	British Crown ⓘ British monarch ⓘ surface form: Monarch of the United Kingdom
appointedForTerm	at pleasure of the Crown ⓘ
category	Governors of British Ceylon ⓘ
country	British Ceylon ⓘ
endTime	1947 ⓘ 1948 ⓘ
flag	Flag of the Governor of British Ceylon ⓘ
followedBy	Governor-General ⓘ surface form: Governor-General of Ceylon Governor-General ⓘ surface form: Governor-General of the Dominion of Ceylon
governingBody	Government of Ceylon ⓘ surface form: Government of British Ceylon
governs	British Ceylon ⓘ British Ceylon ⓘ surface form: Crown colony of Ceylon
hasAuthorityOver	Legislative Council of Ceylon ⓘ surface form: Executive Council of Ceylon colonial civil service of Ceylon ⓘ
hasJurisdictionOver	territory of Ceylon ⓘ
hasPower	to appoint colonial officials ⓘ to assent to or veto colonial legislation ⓘ to issue ordinances ⓘ
insignia	Emblem of Ceylon ⓘ surface form: Coat of arms of British Ceylon
languageOfWork	English ⓘ
legalForm	Crown colony governorship ⓘ
locatedIn	Sri Lanka ⓘ surface form: Ceylon Sri Lanka ⓘ
officeCreatedBy	British colonial rule in Ceylon ⓘ
officeHolderOf	British colonial administration in Ceylon ⓘ
officeHolderTitle	His Excellency the Governor of Ceylon ⓘ
partOf	British Empire ⓘ British colonial administration ⓘ
precededBy	Dutch Governor of Ceylon ⓘ Portuguese Governor of Ceylon ⓘ
replacedBy	Dominion status for Ceylon ⓘ office of Governor-General of Ceylon ⓘ
reportsTo	Colonial Office ⓘ surface form: Colonial Office in London Secretary of State for the Colonies ⓘ
residence	Queen's House, Colombo ⓘ
residenceType	official residence ⓘ
role	chief colonial administrator in Ceylon ⓘ commander-in-chief of colonial forces in Ceylon ⓘ head of the colonial government of Ceylon ⓘ representative of the British Crown in Ceylon ⓘ
seat	Colombo ⓘ
seeAlso	British Ceylon ⓘ Governor-General ⓘ surface form: Governor-General of Ceylon
startTime	1798 ⓘ
usedDuring	British colonial period in Ceylon ⓘ

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: Governor of Ceylon
Description of subject: The Governor of Ceylon was the British Crown’s chief colonial administrator and representative in Ceylon, overseeing its governance during the period of British rule.

Referenced by (11)

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

British Ceylon → headOfGovernment → Governor of Ceylon ⓘ

Joan Maetsuycker → positionHeld → Governor of Ceylon ⓘ

Legislative Council of Ceylon → headOfCouncil → Governor of Ceylon ⓘ

Legislative Council of Ceylon → presidingOfficer → Governor of Ceylon ⓘ

Ceylon Civil Service → subordinateTo → Governor of Ceylon ⓘ

judiciary of Ceylon → appointmentAuthority → Governor of Ceylon ⓘ

Queen's House, Colombo → occupant → Governor of Ceylon ⓘ

Flag of the Governor of British Ceylon → usedBy → Governor of Ceylon ⓘ

this entity surface form: Governor of British Ceylon

Executive Committee of Education → subordinateTo → Governor of Ceylon ⓘ

Executive Committee of Labour, Industry and Commerce → subordinateTo → Governor of Ceylon ⓘ

Executive Committee of Finance → subordinateTo → Governor of Ceylon ⓘ