SS Phoenix wreck
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The SS Phoenix wreck is the remains of a 19th-century wooden steamship that tragically burned and sank in Lake Michigan, becoming one of the Great Lakes’ most infamous maritime disaster sites.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| SS Phoenix wreck canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13410378 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SS Phoenix wreck Context triple: [Great Lakes shipwrecks, hasPart, SS Phoenix wreck]
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A.
shipwreck of the Tsimtsum
The shipwreck of the Tsimtsum is the catastrophic maritime disaster in "Life of Pi" that strands the protagonist at sea and sets the novel’s survival story in motion.
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B.
Molasses Reef Wreck
Molasses Reef Wreck is one of the oldest known European shipwrecks in the Americas, offering key archaeological insights into early transatlantic exploration and trade.
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C.
Limo Wreck
"Limo Wreck" is a heavy, riff-driven grunge/metal song by Soundgarden from their acclaimed 1994 album *Superunknown*.
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D.
shipwreck of the Beatrice
The shipwreck of the Beatrice is the lost vessel that was carrying the ancient basalt sarcophagus from the Pyramid of Menkaure when it sank in the 19th century.
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E.
SS Nomadic
SS Nomadic is a preserved early 20th-century tender ship built to serve RMS Titanic and now a historic museum vessel in Belfast.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SS Phoenix wreck Target entity description: The SS Phoenix wreck is the remains of a 19th-century wooden steamship that tragically burned and sank in Lake Michigan, becoming one of the Great Lakes’ most infamous maritime disaster sites.
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A.
shipwreck of the Tsimtsum
The shipwreck of the Tsimtsum is the catastrophic maritime disaster in "Life of Pi" that strands the protagonist at sea and sets the novel’s survival story in motion.
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B.
Molasses Reef Wreck
Molasses Reef Wreck is one of the oldest known European shipwrecks in the Americas, offering key archaeological insights into early transatlantic exploration and trade.
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C.
Limo Wreck
"Limo Wreck" is a heavy, riff-driven grunge/metal song by Soundgarden from their acclaimed 1994 album *Superunknown*.
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D.
shipwreck of the Beatrice
The shipwreck of the Beatrice is the lost vessel that was carrying the ancient basalt sarcophagus from the Pyramid of Menkaure when it sank in the 19th century.
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E.
SS Nomadic
SS Nomadic is a preserved early 20th-century tender ship built to serve RMS Titanic and now a historic museum vessel in Belfast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
maritime disaster site
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shipwreck ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem | underwater GPS / charted wreck position ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| hasCause | onboard fire ⓘ |
| hasConsequence |
contributed to awareness of fire risks on wooden steamships
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prompted discussion of 19th-century steamship safety ⓘ |
| hasEventLocation |
Lake Michigan, United States
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linked to:
Lake Michigan
|
| hasInvestigation | underwater archaeological surveys ⓘ |
| hasPart | remains of a 19th-century wooden steamship ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
19th-century steamship construction
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archaeological site ⓘ historic shipwreck ⓘ infamous Great Lakes disaster site ⓘ maritime grave site ⓘ underwater cultural resource ⓘ wooden-hulled vessel remains ⓘ |
| hasRepresentation |
featured in Great Lakes maritime history literature
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listed in Great Lakes shipwreck databases ⓘ subject of historical articles and documentaries ⓘ |
| hasRisk |
entanglement and structural collapse risk for divers
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hazardous diving conditions ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
immigrant travel on the Great Lakes
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maritime disaster ⓘ maritime safety history ⓘ shipboard fire ⓘ |
| hasTimePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| hasVictim | passengers and crew of SS Phoenix ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Register of Historic Places shipwreck
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listed on the National Register of Historic Places ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
near Sheboygan, Wisconsin
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off the coast of Sheboygan, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| locatedInBodyOfWater | Lake Michigan ⓘ |
| material | wood ⓘ |
| partOf |
Great Lakes shipwrecks
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cultural resources of Lake Michigan ⓘ maritime heritage of Wisconsin ⓘ |
| significantEvent | burned and sank on Lake Michigan ⓘ |
| significantFor |
example of 19th-century wooden steamship design
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important to Great Lakes maritime history ⓘ loss of many immigrant passengers ⓘ one of the deadliest ship disasters on Lake Michigan ⓘ one of the most infamous Great Lakes maritime disasters ⓘ site of major loss of life ⓘ subject of underwater archaeological study ⓘ |
| usedFor |
diving site for experienced divers
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heritage tourism interpretation ⓘ maritime archaeology research ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: SS Phoenix wreck Description of subject: The SS Phoenix wreck is the remains of a 19th-century wooden steamship that tragically burned and sank in Lake Michigan, becoming one of the Great Lakes’ most infamous maritime disaster sites.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.