HMS Iris
E126491
HMS Iris was a British Royal Navy warship that had previously served in the United States Navy as USS Hancock before being transferred and renamed.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HMS Iris canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1034494 — 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: HMS Iris Context triple: [USS Hancock, subsequentName, HMS Iris]
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A.
HMS Heron
HMS Heron is the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm air station at Yeovilton in Somerset, serving as a major base for naval aviation operations and training.
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B.
HMS Arethusa
HMS Arethusa was a British Royal Navy light cruiser that served prominently during the early years of World War II, including North Sea operations and convoy escort duties.
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C.
HMS Ivanhoe
HMS Ivanhoe was a British Royal Navy I-class destroyer that served during the early years of World War II, notably participating in operations such as the Altmark Incident.
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D.
HMS Minotaur
HMS Minotaur was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for her distinguished service in major late 18th-century naval battles against France, including the Battle of the Nile.
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E.
HMS Goliath
HMS Goliath was a British Royal Navy ship of the line that played a significant role in Admiral Nelson’s victory over the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.
- 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: HMS Iris Target entity description: HMS Iris was a British Royal Navy warship that had previously served in the United States Navy as USS Hancock before being transferred and renamed.
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A.
HMS Heron
HMS Heron is the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm air station at Yeovilton in Somerset, serving as a major base for naval aviation operations and training.
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B.
HMS Arethusa
HMS Arethusa was a British Royal Navy light cruiser that served prominently during the early years of World War II, including North Sea operations and convoy escort duties.
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C.
HMS Ivanhoe
HMS Ivanhoe was a British Royal Navy I-class destroyer that served during the early years of World War II, notably participating in operations such as the Altmark Incident.
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D.
HMS Minotaur
HMS Minotaur was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for her distinguished service in major late 18th-century naval battles against France, including the Battle of the Nile.
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E.
HMS Goliath
HMS Goliath was a British Royal Navy ship of the line that played a significant role in Admiral Nelson’s victory over the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy ship
ⓘ
United States Navy ship ⓘ warship ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| country of origin | United States of America ⓘ |
| flag |
United States naval ensign
ⓘ
linked to:
Naval jack of the United States
White Ensign ⓘ |
| formerName | USS Hancock ⓘ |
| hasName | HMS Iris ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | naval forces ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Iris (figure from classical mythology)
ⓘ
linked to:
Iris
|
| navalService | World War II ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| operator (former) | United States Navy ⓘ |
| predecessor | USS Hancock ⓘ |
| serviceEntry |
Royal Navy
ⓘ
United States Navy ⓘ |
| shipClass | United States-built warship transferred to Royal Navy ⓘ |
| shipRole | warship ⓘ |
| shipType | naval vessel ⓘ |
| status | decommissioned ⓘ |
| successor | HMS Iris ⓘ |
| transferFrom | United States Navy ⓘ |
| transferTo | Royal Navy ⓘ |
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: HMS Iris Description of subject: HMS Iris was a British Royal Navy warship that had previously served in the United States Navy as USS Hancock before being transferred and renamed.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.