SS Majestic (1890)
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SS Majestic (1890) was a late 19th-century British ocean liner that served as one of the premier transatlantic passenger ships of its era.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SS Majestic (1889) | 1 |
| SS Majestic (1890) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4134191 — 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 Majestic (1890) Context triple: [White Star Line, operatedVessel, SS Majestic (1890)]
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A.
M/V LeConte
M/V LeConte is an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger and vehicle service to coastal communities in Southeast Alaska.
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B.
SS Great Western
SS Great Western was a pioneering 19th-century steamship that became one of the first successful transatlantic ocean liners, showcasing Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s innovative maritime engineering.
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C.
HMHS Britannic
HMHS Britannic was a British White Star Line ocean liner, sister ship to the Titanic and Olympic, that served as a World War I hospital ship before sinking in the Aegean Sea in 1916.
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D.
RMS Olympic
RMS Olympic was a British Olympic-class ocean liner of the White Star Line, best known as the near-identical sister ship of the Titanic and for her long, successful service career.
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E.
M/V Kennicott
M/V Kennicott is a mainline Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger, vehicle, and cargo service to coastal communities across Alaska.
- 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 Majestic (1890) Target entity description: SS Majestic (1890) was a late 19th-century British ocean liner that served as one of the premier transatlantic passenger ships of its era.
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A.
M/V LeConte
M/V LeConte is an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger and vehicle service to coastal communities in Southeast Alaska.
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B.
SS Great Western
SS Great Western was a pioneering 19th-century steamship that became one of the first successful transatlantic ocean liners, showcasing Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s innovative maritime engineering.
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C.
HMHS Britannic
HMHS Britannic was a British White Star Line ocean liner, sister ship to the Titanic and Olympic, that served as a World War I hospital ship before sinking in the Aegean Sea in 1916.
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D.
RMS Olympic
RMS Olympic was a British Olympic-class ocean liner of the White Star Line, best known as the near-identical sister ship of the Titanic and for her long, successful service career.
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E.
M/V Kennicott
M/V Kennicott is a mainline Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger, vehicle, and cargo service to coastal communities across Alaska.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ocean liner
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passenger ship ⓘ steamship ⓘ |
| armament | naval guns (when in auxiliary service) ⓘ |
| beam | 57.6 ft ⓘ |
| blueRibandHolder | 1891 ⓘ |
| builder | Harland and Wolff ⓘ |
| builtAt | Belfast ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1890-03-22 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crewComplement | over 400 crew ⓘ |
| fittedWith |
electric lighting
ⓘ
luxury first-class accommodations ⓘ |
| flag | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| funnelCount | 2 ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| hullMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1889-06-29 ⓘ |
| length | 582 ft ⓘ |
| maidenVoyageDate | 1890-04-02 ⓘ |
| mastCount | 3 ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 20 knots ⓘ |
| navalName | HMS Majestic (as auxiliary) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the premier transatlantic liners of the 1890s
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winning the Blue Riband for fastest Atlantic crossing ⓘ |
| operator | White Star Line ⓘ |
| ownedBy | White Star Line ⓘ |
| passengerCapacity | over 1,400 passengers ⓘ |
| passengerClass |
first class
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second class ⓘ third class ⓘ |
| propulsion |
coal-fired boilers
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twin-screw steam engines ⓘ |
| role | armed merchant cruiser ⓘ |
| route | Liverpool–New York ⓘ |
| scrapped | 1914 ⓘ |
| scrappedAt | Morecambe ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
North Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
linked to:
Atlantic Ocean
|
| serviceEndYear | 1912 ⓘ |
| serviceEntryYear | 1890 ⓘ |
| shipClass | Teutonic-class ocean liner ⓘ |
| shipType | transatlantic liner ⓘ |
| sisterShip |
RMS Olympic (as later replacement class reference)
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linked to:
RMS Olympic
RMS Teutonic ⓘ |
| tonnage | ~9,965 GRT ⓘ |
| usedBy | Royal Navy ⓘ |
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: SS Majestic (1890) Description of subject: SS Majestic (1890) was a late 19th-century British ocean liner that served as one of the premier transatlantic passenger ships of its era.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: SS Majestic (1890)