SS Hamonic wreck
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The SS Hamonic wreck is the submerged remains of a historic Great Lakes passenger steamship that sank after a catastrophic fire in 1945, now serving as a notable site for divers and maritime historians.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| SS Hamonic wreck canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13410391 — 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 Hamonic wreck Context triple: [Great Lakes shipwrecks, hasPart, SS Hamonic wreck]
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A.
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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B.
SS Chicora wreck
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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C.
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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D.
SS Superior City wreck
The SS Superior City wreck is the remains of an early 20th-century Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior and is now a notable site for maritime history and shipwreck diving.
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E.
SS Kamloops wreck
The SS Kamloops wreck is the submerged remains of a Canadian freighter that sank in Lake Superior in 1927 and is now a well-known deep-water dive site and historic Great Lakes shipwreck.
- 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 Hamonic wreck Target entity description: The SS Hamonic wreck is the submerged remains of a historic Great Lakes passenger steamship that sank after a catastrophic fire in 1945, now serving as a notable site for divers and maritime historians.
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A.
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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B.
SS Chicora wreck
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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C.
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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D.
SS Superior City wreck
The SS Superior City wreck is the remains of an early 20th-century Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior and is now a notable site for maritime history and shipwreck diving.
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E.
SS Kamloops wreck
The SS Kamloops wreck is the submerged remains of a Canadian freighter that sank in Lake Superior in 1927 and is now a well-known deep-water dive site and historic Great Lakes shipwreck.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
maritime archaeological site
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shipwreck ⓘ underwater cultural heritage site ⓘ |
| access | accessible only by boat ⓘ |
| causeOfWreck | catastrophic fire ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| currentCondition | submerged remains ⓘ |
| currentUse |
maritime history research site
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recreational dive site ⓘ |
| dateOfWreck | 1945 ⓘ |
| environment | freshwater ⓘ |
| era |
World War II era
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linked to:
World War II
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| hasPart | remains of SS Hamonic ⓘ |
| heritageType | historic shipwreck ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Great Lakes ⓘ |
| locatedInBodyOfWater | Lake Huron ⓘ |
| materialEvidenceOf | mid-20th-century lake steamship construction ⓘ |
| operatingArea |
Great Lakes
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Lake Huron ⓘ |
| originalUse |
Great Lakes passenger service
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passenger transport ⓘ |
| originalVessel | SS Hamonic ⓘ |
| propulsionType | steam-powered ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
Great Lakes passenger shipping
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shipboard fire safety history ⓘ |
| risk | deterioration due to corrosion and biological activity ⓘ |
| significance |
important to Great Lakes maritime history
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notable for catastrophic shipboard fire ⓘ notable for passenger steamship design ⓘ popular destination for scuba divers ⓘ site of interest for maritime historians ⓘ |
| vesselType | passenger steamship ⓘ |
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 Hamonic wreck Description of subject: The SS Hamonic wreck is the submerged remains of a historic Great Lakes passenger steamship that sank after a catastrophic fire in 1945, now serving as a notable site for divers and maritime historians.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.