HMS Glasgow (D88)
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HMS Glasgow (D88) was a Royal Navy Type 42 guided-missile destroyer that served prominently during the Falklands War and Cold War era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Glasgow (D88) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2344542 — 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 Glasgow (D88) Context triple: [Type 42 destroyer, notableShip, HMS Glasgow (D88)]
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A.
HMS Coventry (D118)
HMS Coventry (D118) was a British Royal Navy Type 42 destroyer best known for her service and sinking during the Falklands War in 1982.
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B.
HMS Sheffield (D80)
HMS Sheffield (D80) was a Royal Navy Type 42 guided-missile destroyer best known for being sunk by an Argentine Exocet missile during the Falklands War in 1982.
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C.
HMS Defender (D36)
HMS Defender (D36) is a Royal Navy air-defence destroyer commissioned in the early 2010s and equipped with advanced radar and missile systems for fleet protection and maritime security operations.
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D.
HMS Daring (D32)
HMS Daring (D32) is a Royal Navy air-defence destroyer that serves as the lead ship of the advanced Type 45 (Daring-class) guided missile destroyers.
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E.
HMS Duncan (D37)
HMS Duncan (D37) is a modern Royal Navy air-defence destroyer equipped with advanced radar and missile systems for fleet protection and maritime security operations.
- 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 Glasgow (D88) Target entity description: HMS Glasgow (D88) was a Royal Navy Type 42 guided-missile destroyer that served prominently during the Falklands War and Cold War era.
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A.
HMS Coventry (D118)
HMS Coventry (D118) was a British Royal Navy Type 42 destroyer best known for her service and sinking during the Falklands War in 1982.
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B.
HMS Sheffield (D80)
HMS Sheffield (D80) was a Royal Navy Type 42 guided-missile destroyer best known for being sunk by an Argentine Exocet missile during the Falklands War in 1982.
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C.
HMS Defender (D36)
HMS Defender (D36) is a Royal Navy air-defence destroyer commissioned in the early 2010s and equipped with advanced radar and missile systems for fleet protection and maritime security operations.
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D.
HMS Daring (D32)
HMS Daring (D32) is a Royal Navy air-defence destroyer that serves as the lead ship of the advanced Type 45 (Daring-class) guided missile destroyers.
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E.
HMS Duncan (D37)
HMS Duncan (D37) is a modern Royal Navy air-defence destroyer equipped with advanced radar and missile systems for fleet protection and maritime security operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy warship
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Type 42 destroyer ⓘ guided-missile destroyer ⓘ |
| aircraftCarried | Lynx helicopter ⓘ |
| armament |
4.5-inch (114 mm) Mark 8 naval gun
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Sea Dart surface-to-air missile system ⓘ anti-submarine torpedo tubes ⓘ close-in weapons and machine guns ⓘ |
| beam | 14.3 metres ⓘ |
| builder | Swan Hunter ⓘ |
| commissioned | 25 May 1977 ⓘ |
| conflict |
Cold War
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Falklands War ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crewComplement | approximately 250 personnel ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 1 February 2005 ⓘ |
| displacement |
approximately 4,100 tonnes (standard)
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approximately 4,800 tonnes (full load) ⓘ |
| draught | 5.8 metres ⓘ |
| electronics | radar and fire-control systems for Sea Dart ⓘ |
| era | late 20th century ⓘ |
| falklandsWarIncident | damaged by an Argentine bomb that failed to explode ⓘ |
| falklandsWarRole |
provided area air defence
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provided naval gunfire support ⓘ |
| falklandsWarService | served as part of the British task force in 1982 ⓘ |
| homeport | Portsmouth ⓘ |
| hullMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| laidDown | 16 April 1974 ⓘ |
| launched | 14 April 1976 ⓘ |
| length | 125 metres ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 30 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Glasgow ⓘ |
| navyBranch | Surface Fleet ⓘ |
| numberOfFunnels | 1 ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| pennantNumber | D88 ⓘ |
| primaryMission | fleet air defence ⓘ |
| propulsion | COGOG gas-turbine system ⓘ |
| role | air-defence destroyer ⓘ |
| secondaryMission |
anti-submarine warfare
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surface warfare ⓘ |
| serviceEndDecade | 2000s ⓘ |
| serviceEntryDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| shipClass |
Sheffield-class destroyer
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Type 42 destroyer ⓘ |
| shipyard | Swan Hunter, Wallsend ⓘ |
| status | decommissioned ⓘ |
| successorNameReusedBy | HMS Glasgow (Type 26 frigate) ⓘ |
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 Glasgow (D88) Description of subject: HMS Glasgow (D88) was a Royal Navy Type 42 guided-missile destroyer that served prominently during the Falklands War and Cold War era.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.