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Rip Raps is a small 15 acre (60,000 m2) artificial island at the mouth of the harbor area known as Hampton Roads in the independent city of Hampton in southeastern Virginia in the United States. Its name is derived from the Rip Rap Shoals in Hampton Roads, which also gave their name to a 19th-century criminal gang. In 2020 the island was converted into a…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Raps | Allies | Plug Uglies, Bloody Tubs, Nativists | 1.00 | infobox |
| Rip Raps | Criminal activities | street fighting, knife fighting assault, murder, robbery, arson, rioting | 1.00 | infobox |
| Rip Raps | Ethnicity | Non-Irish American | 1.00 | infobox |
| Rip Raps | Founding location | Norfolk, Virginia | 1.00 | infobox |
| Rip Raps | Membership .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}(est.) | ? | 1.00 | infobox |
| Rip Raps | Rivals | Baltimore Irish gangs | 1.00 | infobox |
| Rip Raps | Territory | Hampton, Virginia | 1.00 | infobox |
| Rip Raps | Years active | 1850s | 1.00 | infobox |
| Rip Raps | is a | small 15 acre | 0.90 | text |
| Rip Raps | related to 19th-century criminal gang | The Rip Rap | 0.60 | section |
| Rip Raps | related to 19th-century criminal gang | Hampton Roads | 0.60 | section |
| Rip Raps | related to 19th-century criminal gang | Baltimore | 0.60 | section |
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