HMS Cyane
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HMS Cyane was a British Royal Navy frigate best known for being captured by the American warship USS Constitution during the War of 1812.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HMS Cyane canonical | 8 |
| sixth-rate ship HMS Cyane | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1881404 — 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 Cyane Context triple: [USS Constitution, victoryOver, HMS Cyane]
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A.
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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B.
HMS Kimberley
HMS Kimberley was a British K-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw extensive service during the Second World War, particularly in the Mediterranean and North African campaigns.
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C.
HMS Namur
HMS Namur was a prominent 18th-century Royal Navy ship of the line that saw significant action in major naval engagements, including during the Seven Years' War.
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D.
HMS Bellerophon
HMS Bellerophon was a British Royal Navy ship of the line famed for her prominent role in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including the surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard her in 1815.
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E.
HMS Cossack
HMS Cossack was a British Royal Navy destroyer best known for its daring 1940 boarding of the German tanker Altmark in Norwegian waters to free hundreds of Allied prisoners.
- 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 Cyane Target entity description: HMS Cyane was a British Royal Navy frigate best known for being captured by the American warship USS Constitution during the War of 1812.
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A.
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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B.
HMS Kimberley
HMS Kimberley was a British K-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw extensive service during the Second World War, particularly in the Mediterranean and North African campaigns.
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C.
HMS Namur
HMS Namur was a prominent 18th-century Royal Navy ship of the line that saw significant action in major naval engagements, including during the Seven Years' War.
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D.
HMS Bellerophon
HMS Bellerophon was a British Royal Navy ship of the line famed for her prominent role in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including the surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard her in 1815.
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E.
HMS Cossack
HMS Cossack was a British Royal Navy destroyer best known for its daring 1940 boarding of the German tanker Altmark in Norwegian waters to free hundreds of Allied prisoners.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy warship
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sixth-rate frigate ⓘ |
| allegiance | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| armamentClass | 22-gun sixth-rate ⓘ |
| capturedBy |
USS Constitution
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United States Navy ⓘ |
| capturedIn | Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Cyane and HMS Levant ⓘ |
| capturedOn | 1815-02-20 ⓘ |
| class | sixth-rate post ship ⓘ |
| conflict | War of 1812 ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| design | single-gundeck frigate ⓘ |
| era | Napoleonic Wars era ⓘ |
| fate | captured and taken into United States service ⓘ |
| flag | White Ensign ⓘ |
| navalRole | escort and patrol duties ⓘ |
| navalTacticContext | frigate warfare ⓘ |
| notableEngagement | Action with USS Constitution, 20 February 1815 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being captured by USS Constitution ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| opponentCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| opponentShip | USS Constitution ⓘ |
| periodOfUse | early 19th century ⓘ |
| propulsion | sail ⓘ |
| renamedAs | USS Cyane ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| technology | broadside cannon armament ⓘ |
| theater | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| type | wooden sailing frigate ⓘ |
| usedIn | Age of Sail ⓘ |
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 Cyane Description of subject: HMS Cyane was a British Royal Navy frigate best known for being captured by the American warship USS Constitution during the War of 1812.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: HMS Cyane