SS Regina wreck (1913 storm)
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The SS Regina wreck (1913 storm) is the remains of a Canadian steel freighter that sank with all hands during the catastrophic Great Lakes storm of November 1913, now a notable and frequently visited dive site.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| SS Regina wreck | 1 |
| SS Regina wreck (1913 storm) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13410406 — 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 Regina wreck (1913 storm) Context triple: [Great Lakes shipwrecks, hasPart, SS Regina wreck (1913 storm)]
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A.
SS Empress of Ireland
SS Empress of Ireland was a Canadian Pacific ocean liner best known for its tragic 1914 sinking in the Saint Lawrence River, which resulted in the loss of over 1,000 lives.
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B.
RMS Baltic (1903)
RMS Baltic (1903) was a large early 20th-century British ocean liner that served as a transatlantic passenger ship for the White Star Line.
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C.
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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D.
SS Empress of Scotland (1905)
SS Empress of Scotland (1905) was a prominent early 20th-century transatlantic ocean liner, originally built as RMS Empress of Japan, that served the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company on routes between Europe and the Pacific.
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E.
SS Empress of Britain (1906)
SS Empress of Britain (1906) was a British ocean liner operated by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company, known for its transatlantic passenger service in the early 20th century.
- 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 Regina wreck (1913 storm) Target entity description: The SS Regina wreck (1913 storm) is the remains of a Canadian steel freighter that sank with all hands during the catastrophic Great Lakes storm of November 1913, now a notable and frequently visited dive site.
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A.
SS Empress of Ireland
SS Empress of Ireland was a Canadian Pacific ocean liner best known for its tragic 1914 sinking in the Saint Lawrence River, which resulted in the loss of over 1,000 lives.
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B.
RMS Baltic (1903)
RMS Baltic (1903) was a large early 20th-century British ocean liner that served as a transatlantic passenger ship for the White Star Line.
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C.
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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D.
SS Empress of Scotland (1905)
SS Empress of Scotland (1905) was a prominent early 20th-century transatlantic ocean liner, originally built as RMS Empress of Japan, that served the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company on routes between Europe and the Pacific.
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E.
SS Empress of Britain (1906)
SS Empress of Britain (1906) was a British ocean liner operated by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company, known for its transatlantic passenger service in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dive site
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shipwreck ⓘ underwater archaeological site ⓘ |
| associatedEvent |
Great Lakes storm of 1913
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linked to:
Great Storm of 1913
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| bodyOfWater | Great Lakes ⓘ |
| casualties | all hands lost ⓘ |
| causeOfLoss | storm ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistry | Canada ⓘ |
| hasInterestFor |
maritime historians
ⓘ
shipwreck researchers ⓘ underwater archaeologists ⓘ |
| hasRemainsOf | Canadian steel freighter SS Regina ⓘ |
| heritage | Canadian maritime heritage site ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | locally significant shipwreck ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| hullMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| isExampleOf |
Great Lakes freighter loss
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storm-induced maritime disaster ⓘ |
| locationType | underwater site ⓘ |
| memorializes | crew of SS Regina ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a frequently visited dive site
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loss during the Great Lakes storm of 1913 ⓘ |
| riskFactor | severe weather ⓘ |
| sankIn |
Great Lakes storm of 1913
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Storm of 1913
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| shipName | SS Regina ⓘ |
| shipType | freighter ⓘ |
| sinkingDate | November 1913 ⓘ |
| status | shipwreck remains ⓘ |
| visitedBy |
scuba divers
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technical divers ⓘ |
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 Regina wreck (1913 storm) Description of subject: The SS Regina wreck (1913 storm) is the remains of a Canadian steel freighter that sank with all hands during the catastrophic Great Lakes storm of November 1913, now a notable and frequently visited dive site.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: SS Regina wreck (1913 storm)