HMS Confiance
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HMS Confiance was a large British frigate that served as the flagship of the British squadron during the War of 1812’s pivotal Battle of Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Confiance canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2182848 — 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 Confiance Context triple: [Battle of Plattsburgh, notableShip, HMS Confiance]
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A.
HMS Levant
HMS Levant was a British Royal Navy warship of the Age of Sail, best known as one of the vessels captured by the American frigate USS Constitution during the War of 1812.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
HMS Cornwall
HMS Cornwall was a British Royal Navy County-class heavy cruiser that served during World War II, notably in the Indian Ocean before being sunk by Japanese aircraft in 1942.
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E.
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.
- 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 Confiance Target entity description: HMS Confiance was a large British frigate that served as the flagship of the British squadron during the War of 1812’s pivotal Battle of Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain.
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A.
HMS Levant
HMS Levant was a British Royal Navy warship of the Age of Sail, best known as one of the vessels captured by the American frigate USS Constitution during the War of 1812.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
HMS Cornwall
HMS Cornwall was a British Royal Navy County-class heavy cruiser that served during World War II, notably in the Indian Ocean before being sunk by Japanese aircraft in 1942.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy ship
ⓘ
frigate ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| armamentClass | heavily armed frigate ⓘ |
| associatedEvent | British invasion attempt via Lake Champlain in 1814 ⓘ |
| commandRole | flagship command platform ⓘ |
| conflict | War of 1812 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| engagedAgainst |
United States naval forces on Lake Champlain
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linked to:
Lake Champlain campaign
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| flagshipOf | British squadron on Lake Champlain ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Age of Sail ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | key British ship in the decisive American victory at Plattsburgh ⓘ |
| launchedInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| locationDuringBattleOfPlattsburgh | Lake Champlain ⓘ |
| navalTheater | Great Lakes and inland waters of North America ⓘ |
| notableFor | service at the Battle of Plattsburgh ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Battle of Plattsburgh ⓘ |
| roleInBattleOfPlattsburgh | flagship of the British squadron ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | British ⓘ |
| statusDuringBattleOfPlattsburgh | in commission ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations | Lake Champlain ⓘ |
| typeOfVessel | ship-rigged frigate ⓘ |
| usedAs | squadron flagship ⓘ |
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 Confiance Description of subject: HMS Confiance was a large British frigate that served as the flagship of the British squadron during the War of 1812’s pivotal Battle of Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.