SS Chicora wreck
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The SS Chicora wreck is the remains of a 19th-century passenger steamer that mysteriously sank in Lake Michigan, becoming one of the Great Lakes’ notable maritime disasters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| SS Chicora wreck canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13410379 — 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 Chicora wreck Context triple: [Great Lakes shipwrecks, hasPart, SS Chicora wreck]
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A.
SS Milwaukee wreck
The SS Milwaukee wreck is the remains of a historic railroad car ferry that sank in Lake Michigan during a 1929 storm, now a notable Great Lakes shipwreck and diving site.
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B.
SS Phoenix wreck
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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C.
SS G.P. Griffith wreck
The SS G.P. Griffith wreck is the remains of a 19th-century passenger steamer that tragically burned and sank in Lake Erie, becoming one of the Great Lakes’ deadliest maritime disasters.
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D.
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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E.
SS Daniel J. Morrell shipwreck
The SS Daniel J. Morrell shipwreck is the remains of a Great Lakes freighter that tragically broke apart and sank during a fierce storm on Lake Huron in 1966, resulting in significant loss of life and becoming one of the region’s most infamous maritime disasters.
- 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 Chicora wreck Target entity description: The SS Chicora wreck is the remains of a 19th-century passenger steamer that mysteriously sank in Lake Michigan, becoming one of the Great Lakes’ notable maritime disasters.
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A.
SS Milwaukee wreck
The SS Milwaukee wreck is the remains of a historic railroad car ferry that sank in Lake Michigan during a 1929 storm, now a notable Great Lakes shipwreck and diving site.
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B.
SS Phoenix wreck
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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C.
SS G.P. Griffith wreck
The SS G.P. Griffith wreck is the remains of a 19th-century passenger steamer that tragically burned and sank in Lake Erie, becoming one of the Great Lakes’ deadliest maritime disasters.
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D.
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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E.
SS Daniel J. Morrell shipwreck
The SS Daniel J. Morrell shipwreck is the remains of a Great Lakes freighter that tragically broke apart and sank during a fierce storm on Lake Huron in 1966, resulting in significant loss of life and becoming one of the region’s most infamous maritime disasters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeological site
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maritime disaster site ⓘ shipwreck ⓘ shipwreck ⓘ steamship ⓘ |
| associatedWith | SS Chicora ⓘ |
| bodyOfWater | Lake Michigan ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| hasRemains | SS Chicora wreck ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | underwater cultural heritage ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lake Michigan
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United States waters ⓘ |
| locationOfWreck | Lake Michigan ⓘ |
| notableFor |
maritime disaster on the Great Lakes
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mysterious loss on Lake Michigan ⓘ |
| operatingArea |
Great Lakes
ⓘ
Lake Michigan ⓘ |
| partOf |
Great Lakes maritime history
ⓘ
Great Lakes shipwreck sites ⓘ
linked to:
Great Lakes shipwrecks
Great Lakes shipwrecks ⓘ |
| propulsion | steam-powered ⓘ |
| shipType | passenger steamer ⓘ |
| significance |
evidence of 19th-century Great Lakes shipping
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evidence of a notable Great Lakes maritime disaster ⓘ |
| sinkingCause | unknown ⓘ |
| sinkingStatus | mysterious sinking ⓘ |
| use |
cargo transport
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passenger transport ⓘ |
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 Chicora wreck Description of subject: The SS Chicora wreck is the remains of a 19th-century passenger steamer that mysteriously sank in Lake Michigan, becoming one of the Great Lakes’ notable maritime disasters.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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SS Chicora wreck