Prince of Wales (ship)
E281008
Prince of Wales was one of the eleven ships of the First Fleet that transported convicts and settlers from Britain to establish the first European colony in Australia in 1788.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Prince of Wales (ship) canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2610665 — 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: Prince of Wales (ship) Context triple: [Landing of the First Fleet, hasPart, Prince of Wales (ship)]
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A.
Tune ship
The Tune ship is a well-preserved Viking Age burial ship discovered in Norway, notable for its early excavation and display as a key example of Scandinavian seafaring culture.
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B.
HMS Serapis
HMS Serapis was a British Royal Navy warship best known for its capture by John Paul Jones’s Bonhomme Richard during a fierce 1779 naval battle off Flamborough Head in the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
HMS Surprise
HMS Surprise is the fictional early-19th-century Royal Navy frigate that serves as Captain Jack Aubrey’s command in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin novels and their film adaptation "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."
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D.
HMS Adventure
HMS Adventure was a Royal Navy research vessel that served as the consort ship on James Cook’s second voyage of exploration to the Pacific in the 1770s.
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E.
HMS Resolution
HMS Resolution was a British Royal Navy exploration vessel best known for serving as Captain James Cook’s flagship on his second and third Pacific voyages in the 1770s.
- 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: Prince of Wales (ship) Target entity description: Prince of Wales was one of the eleven ships of the First Fleet that transported convicts and settlers from Britain to establish the first European colony in Australia in 1788.
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A.
Tune ship
The Tune ship is a well-preserved Viking Age burial ship discovered in Norway, notable for its early excavation and display as a key example of Scandinavian seafaring culture.
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B.
HMS Serapis
HMS Serapis was a British Royal Navy warship best known for its capture by John Paul Jones’s Bonhomme Richard during a fierce 1779 naval battle off Flamborough Head in the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
HMS Surprise
HMS Surprise is the fictional early-19th-century Royal Navy frigate that serves as Captain Jack Aubrey’s command in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin novels and their film adaptation "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."
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D.
HMS Adventure
HMS Adventure was a Royal Navy research vessel that served as the consort ship on James Cook’s second voyage of exploration to the Pacific in the 1770s.
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E.
HMS Resolution
HMS Resolution was a British Royal Navy exploration vessel best known for serving as Captain James Cook’s flagship on his second and third Pacific voyages in the 1770s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
First Fleet ship
ⓘ
convict transport ship ⓘ |
| arrivalDate | 1788-01-26 ⓘ |
| arrivalPort |
Port Jackson
ⓘ
linked to:
Sydney Harbour
|
| arrivalRegion | New South Wales ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Governor Arthur Phillip ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | European colonisation of Australia ⓘ |
| convoy |
First Fleet convoy
ⓘ
linked to:
Landing of the First Fleet
|
| countryOfOrigin | Great Britain ⓘ |
| departureCountry | England ⓘ |
| departureDate | 1787-05-13 ⓘ |
| departurePort | Portsmouth ⓘ |
| destination |
New South Wales colony
ⓘ
linked to:
Colony of New South Wales
|
| era | Age of Sail ⓘ |
| flag | British Red Ensign ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | helped establish first permanent European settlement in Australia ⓘ |
| notableFor | carrying convicts on the First Fleet to Australia in 1787–1788 ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
British government
ⓘ
linked to:
UK government
|
| operationalStatusDuringFirstFleet | merchant vessel chartered by the British government ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
voyage of the First Fleet to Australia
ⓘ
linked to:
Landing of the First Fleet
|
| partOf |
First Fleet
ⓘ
linked to:
Landing of the First Fleet
|
| purpose |
support establishment of first European colony in Australia
ⓘ
transport convicts to Australia ⓘ |
| route | England to New South Wales via Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town ⓘ |
| sailedWith |
Alexander (ship)
ⓘ
Borrowdale (ship) ⓘ Charlotte (ship) ⓘ Fishburn (ship) ⓘ Friendship (ship) ⓘ Golden Grove (ship) ⓘ HMS Sirius ⓘ HMS Supply ⓘ Lady Penrhyn (ship) ⓘ Scarborough (ship) ⓘ |
| transported |
convicts
ⓘ
marines ⓘ settlers ⓘ supplies ⓘ |
| type | square-rigged sailing ship ⓘ |
| usedBy | British penal transportation system ⓘ |
| usedFor | long-distance oceanic transport ⓘ |
| yearOfVoyage |
1787
ⓘ
1788 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Prince of Wales (ship) Description of subject: Prince of Wales was one of the eleven ships of the First Fleet that transported convicts and settlers from Britain to establish the first European colony in Australia in 1788.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.