HMS Sirius
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HMS Sirius was the Royal Navy warship that served as the flagship of the First Fleet, leading the establishment of the first British colony in Australia in 1788.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Sirius canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2610657 — 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 Sirius Context triple: [Landing of the First Fleet, flagship, HMS Sirius]
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A.
HMS Jupiter
HMS Jupiter was a British J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served in World War II and was lost during operations in the Pacific.
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B.
HMS Royal James
HMS Royal James was a 17th-century English warship of the Royal Navy that was destroyed during the Dutch attack known as the Raid on the Medway in 1667.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
HMS Drake
HMS Drake was a British armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy, launched in the early 20th century and serving prominently before and during World War I.
- 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 Sirius Target entity description: HMS Sirius was the Royal Navy warship that served as the flagship of the First Fleet, leading the establishment of the first British colony in Australia in 1788.
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A.
HMS Jupiter
HMS Jupiter was a British J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served in World War II and was lost during operations in the Pacific.
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B.
HMS Royal James
HMS Royal James was a 17th-century English warship of the Royal Navy that was destroyed during the Dutch attack known as the Raid on the Medway in 1667.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
HMS Drake
HMS Drake was a British Royal Navy warship that served during the Age of Sail and was notable enough to be captured and taken into service by the United States as USS Ranger.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 Sirius Description of subject: HMS Sirius was the Royal Navy warship that served as the flagship of the First Fleet, leading the establishment of the first British colony in Australia in 1788.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Lady Penrhyn (ship)
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Golden Grove (ship)
subject linked to:
Governor Arthur Phillip