Trident
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Trident is a submarine-launched ballistic missile system that forms a key part of the nuclear deterrent forces of the United States and the United Kingdom.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Trident D5 | 3 |
| Trident canonical | 2 |
| Trident 1 | 1 |
| Trident 2 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2023358 — 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: Trident Context triple: [Trident nuclear missile system, abbreviation, Trident]
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A.
Trident
Trident is Microsoft's proprietary web browser layout engine that powered Internet Explorer for rendering HTML and web content.
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B.
Trident
Trident is the iconic three-pronged spear symbol that serves as the emblem of the Italian luxury car manufacturer Maserati.
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C.
Tritons
Tritons are mythological Greek sea deities, typically depicted as mermen with the upper body of a man and the tail of a fish, who serve as attendants or heralds of the sea god Poseidon.
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D.
Aegis
Aegis is a distributed, capability-based operating system developed at MIT in the 1980s, known for its fine-grained security model and use in the Apollo/Domain workstation environment.
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E.
Kraftt
Kraftt is an alternative or variant form of the name "Kraft," likely referring to the same or a closely related entity, such as the well-known food brand or surname.
- 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: Trident Target entity description: Trident is a submarine-launched ballistic missile system that forms a key part of the nuclear deterrent forces of the United States and the United Kingdom.
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A.
Trident
Trident is Microsoft's proprietary web browser layout engine that powered Internet Explorer for rendering HTML and web content.
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B.
Trident
Trident is the iconic three-pronged spear symbol that serves as the emblem of the Italian luxury car manufacturer Maserati.
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C.
Tritons
Tritons are mythological Greek sea deities, typically depicted as mermen with the upper body of a man and the tail of a fish, who serve as attendants or heralds of the sea god Poseidon.
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D.
Aegis
Aegis is a distributed, capability-based operating system developed at MIT in the 1980s, known for its fine-grained security model and use in the Apollo/Domain workstation environment.
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E.
Kraftt
Kraftt is an alternative or variant form of the name "Kraft," likely referring to the same or a closely related entity, such as the well-known food brand or surname.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
submarine-launched ballistic missile
ⓘ
submarine-launched ballistic missile ⓘ submarine-launched ballistic missile system ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Trident D5
ⓘ
linked to:
Trident
UGM-133 Trident II ⓘ
linked to:
Trident II D5 missile
UGM-96 Trident I ⓘ
linked to:
Trident I C4
|
| country |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| deploymentPlatform |
Ohio-class submarine
ⓘ
linked to:
Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine
Vanguard-class submarine ⓘ ballistic missile submarine ⓘ |
| deterrenceType | sea-based nuclear deterrent ⓘ |
| guidanceSystem |
inertial guidance
ⓘ
inertial guidance ⓘ stellar-inertial guidance ⓘ stellar-inertial guidance ⓘ |
| hasCapability |
multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles
ⓘ
second-strike capability ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
missile
ⓘ
nuclear warhead ⓘ reentry vehicle ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Trident I
ⓘ
linked to:
Trident I C4
Trident II ⓘ
linked to:
Trident II D5 missile
|
| launchPlatformType |
submarine
ⓘ
submarine ⓘ |
| partOf |
United Kingdom nuclear deterrent
ⓘ
United States nuclear deterrent ⓘ |
| propellant |
solid fuel
ⓘ
solid fuel ⓘ solid fuel ⓘ |
| range | intercontinental ⓘ |
| role |
strategic nuclear weapon
ⓘ
strategic nuclear weapon ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | 1990 ⓘ |
| status |
in service
ⓘ
retired ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Royal Navy
ⓘ
Royal Navy ⓘ United States Navy ⓘ United States Navy ⓘ United States Navy ⓘ |
| usedFor | nuclear deterrence ⓘ |
| warheadType |
thermonuclear warhead
ⓘ
thermonuclear warhead ⓘ |
| weaponType | ballistic missile ⓘ |
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: Trident Description of subject: Trident is a submarine-launched ballistic missile system that forms a key part of the nuclear deterrent forces of the United States and the United Kingdom.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Trident II D5 missile
linked to: Trident
linked to: Trident
linked to: Trident
linked to: Trident