SS Teutonic
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SS Teutonic was a late 19th-century British ocean liner notable for being one of the first modern steamships built for both passenger service and potential auxiliary naval use.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SS Teutonic canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4134190 — 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: SS Teutonic Context triple: [White Star Line, operatedVessel, SS Teutonic]
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A.
Dukenburg
Dukenburg is a residential district in the southwest of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, known for its post-war urban planning and local railway connectivity.
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B.
MTU Friedrichshafen
MTU Friedrichshafen is a German company specializing in the development and production of high-performance diesel engines and propulsion systems for industrial, marine, and defense applications.
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C.
INS Hansa
INS Hansa is a major Indian Navy air station in Goa that serves as the naval aviation base co-located with Dabolim Airport.
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D.
German light cruiser Breslau
The German light cruiser Breslau was a World War I-era warship that served with the Imperial German Navy and later the Ottoman Navy (as Midilli), participating in key naval operations in the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
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E.
German battleship Schleswig-Holstein
The German battleship Schleswig-Holstein was a pre-dreadnought warship of the Imperial German Navy, later used by Nazi Germany, best known for firing the opening shots of World War II during the attack on Westerplatte in 1939.
- 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: SS Teutonic Target entity description: SS Teutonic was a late 19th-century British ocean liner notable for being one of the first modern steamships built for both passenger service and potential auxiliary naval use.
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A.
Dukenburg
Dukenburg is a residential district in the southwest of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, known for its post-war urban planning and local railway connectivity.
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B.
MTU Friedrichshafen
MTU Friedrichshafen is a German company specializing in the development and production of high-performance diesel engines and propulsion systems for industrial, marine, and defense applications.
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C.
INS Hansa
INS Hansa is a major Indian Navy air station in Goa that serves as the naval aviation base co-located with Dabolim Airport.
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D.
German light cruiser Breslau
The German light cruiser Breslau was a World War I-era warship that served with the Imperial German Navy and later the Ottoman Navy (as Midilli), participating in key naval operations in the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
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E.
German battleship Schleswig-Holstein
The German battleship Schleswig-Holstein was a pre-dreadnought warship of the Imperial German Navy, later used by Nazi Germany, best known for firing the opening shots of World War II during the attack on Westerplatte in 1939.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
auxiliary cruiser
ⓘ
ocean liner ⓘ passenger ship ⓘ steamship ⓘ |
| beam |
17.6 m
ⓘ
57.8 ft ⓘ |
| blueRibandYear | 1889 ⓘ |
| builder | Harland and Wolff ⓘ |
| builtAt | Belfast ⓘ |
| charteredBy | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| class | Teutonic-class ocean liner ⓘ |
| completedIn | 1889 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| enteredService | 1889 ⓘ |
| firstClassCapacity | 300 passengers ⓘ |
| flag | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| laterName | SS Laurentic (I) ⓘ |
| laterOwner |
Allan Line
ⓘ
Canadian Pacific Line ⓘ
linked to:
Canadian Pacific Railway
Dominion Line ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1889-01-19 ⓘ |
| length |
177 m
ⓘ
582 ft ⓘ |
| maidenVoyage | 1889-08-07 ⓘ |
| maidenVoyageRoute | Liverpool to New York ⓘ |
| navalRole | armed merchant cruiser ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being among the first modern steamships built for both passenger and auxiliary naval use
ⓘ
being designed for rapid conversion to an armed merchant cruiser ⓘ |
| operator | White Star Line ⓘ |
| passengerCapacity | about 1490 passengers ⓘ |
| primaryRoute | Liverpool–New York ⓘ |
| propulsion |
triple-expansion steam engines
ⓘ
twin screw propellers ⓘ |
| reboilered | 1901 ⓘ |
| record |
Blue Riband westbound holder
ⓘ
linked to:
Blue Riband
|
| registrationPort | Liverpool ⓘ |
| route | North Atlantic ⓘ |
| scrappedAt | Emden ⓘ |
| scrappedIn | 1921 ⓘ |
| secondClassCapacity | 190 passengers ⓘ |
| servedIn | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| sisterShip |
SS Majestic (1889)
ⓘ
linked to:
SS Majestic (1890)
|
| thirdClassCapacity | 1000 passengers ⓘ |
| tonnage | 9658 GRT ⓘ |
| tookPartIn |
1893 Columbian Naval Review in New York
ⓘ
1897 Spithead Naval Review ⓘ |
| topSpeed | 20 knots ⓘ |
| withdrawnFromAtlanticService | 1907 ⓘ |
| wonTitle | Blue Riband ⓘ |
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: SS Teutonic Description of subject: SS Teutonic was a late 19th-century British ocean liner notable for being one of the first modern steamships built for both passenger service and potential auxiliary naval use.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.