HMS Captain
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HMS Captain was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line in the Royal Navy, notable for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Captain canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2773566 — 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 Captain Context triple: [Battle of Cape St Vincent, shipInvolved, HMS Captain]
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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 Vigilant
HMS Vigilant is a British Royal Navy Vanguard-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine that carries and deploys the UK's Trident nuclear deterrent.
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D.
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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E.
HMS Tartar
HMS Tartar was a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer that saw extensive service during the Second World War, including operations in the Arctic, Atlantic, and Mediterranean.
- 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 Captain Target entity description: HMS Captain was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line in the Royal Navy, notable for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797.
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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 Vigilant
HMS Vigilant is a British Royal Navy Vanguard-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine that carries and deploys the UK's Trident nuclear deterrent.
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D.
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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E.
HMS Tartar
HMS Tartar was a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer that saw extensive service during the Second World War, including operations in the Arctic, Atlantic, and Mediterranean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy warship
ⓘ
ship of the line ⓘ third-rate ship of the line ⓘ |
| admiralOnBoard | Horatio Nelson ⓘ |
| armedWith | cannon ⓘ |
| battle | Battle of Cape St Vincent ⓘ |
| commandStructure | Mediterranean Fleet ⓘ |
| conflict | French Revolutionary Wars ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| engagedOpponents | Spanish fleet at the Battle of Cape St Vincent ⓘ |
| era | Age of Sail ⓘ |
| flagshipDuring | Battle of Cape St Vincent ⓘ |
| flagshipOf | Horatio Nelson ⓘ |
| gunDecks | two gun decks ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | associated with early career of Horatio Nelson ⓘ |
| namedAfter | naval rank of captain ⓘ |
| navalPower | British Royal Navy battlefleet ⓘ |
| navalTactic | broke the enemy line at the Battle of Cape St Vincent ⓘ |
| notableEventDate | 1797 ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Cape St Vincent ⓘ |
| numberOfGuns | 74 ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Atlantic Ocean
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waters off Cape St Vincent ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Battle of Cape St Vincent ⓘ |
| rate | third rate ⓘ |
| role |
flagship
ⓘ
line-of-battle ship ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| shipType | ship of the line ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 18th century ⓘ |
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 Captain Description of subject: HMS Captain was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line in the Royal Navy, notable for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.