HMS Obedient
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HMS Obedient was a Royal Navy destroyer that served during World War II, notably participating in Arctic convoy operations against German naval forces.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Obedient canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5525568 — 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 Obedient Context triple: [Battle of the Barents Sea, shipInvolved, HMS Obedient]
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A.
HMS Captain
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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B.
HMS Hermione
HMS Hermione was a British Royal Navy Dido-class light cruiser that served in the Mediterranean during World War II before being sunk by a German U-boat in 1942.
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C.
HMS Sirius
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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D.
HMS Hero
HMS Hero was a Royal Navy destroyer that served during World War II, taking part in several Mediterranean operations and convoy escorts.
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E.
HMS Obdurate
HMS Obdurate was a British Royal Navy O-class destroyer that served with distinction as an escort vessel on Arctic convoys and in key naval engagements during World War II.
- 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 Obedient Target entity description: HMS Obedient was a Royal Navy destroyer that served during World War II, notably participating in Arctic convoy operations against German naval forces.
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A.
HMS Captain
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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B.
HMS Hermione
HMS Hermione was a British Royal Navy Dido-class light cruiser that served in the Mediterranean during World War II before being sunk by a German U-boat in 1942.
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C.
HMS Sirius
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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D.
HMS Hero
HMS Hero was a Royal Navy destroyer that served during World War II, taking part in several Mediterranean operations and convoy escorts.
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E.
HMS Obdurate
HMS Obdurate was a British Royal Navy O-class destroyer that served with distinction as an escort vessel on Arctic convoys and in key naval engagements during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
O-class destroyer
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Royal Navy destroyer ⓘ |
| armedForce | Allies of World War II ⓘ |
| belligerent | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| conflict |
Second World War
ⓘ
linked to:
World War II
|
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | World War II era ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British surface fleet ⓘ |
| navalConvoyType | Arctic convoy escort ⓘ |
| notableFor |
operations against German naval units threatening convoys
ⓘ
service on Arctic convoy routes ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| opposed |
Kriegsmarine
ⓘ
Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Arctic convoys
ⓘ
convoys to the Soviet Union ⓘ operations against German naval forces ⓘ |
| role |
anti-submarine warfare
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anti-surface warfare ⓘ convoy escort ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| serviceRole | front-line destroyer ⓘ |
| shipClass | O-class destroyer ⓘ |
| shipType | destroyer ⓘ |
| theatreOfOperations |
Arctic Ocean
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North Atlantic Ocean ⓘ
linked to:
North Atlantic
|
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 Obedient Description of subject: HMS Obedient was a Royal Navy destroyer that served during World War II, notably participating in Arctic convoy operations against German naval forces.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.