HNLMS Karel Doorman (aircraft carrier)
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HNLMS Karel Doorman was a Dutch Colossus-class aircraft carrier that served as the flagship of the Royal Netherlands Navy during the Cold War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HNLMS Karel Doorman (aircraft carrier) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6601025 — 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: HNLMS Karel Doorman (aircraft carrier) Context triple: [Karel Doorman, hasPartNamedAfterHim, HNLMS Karel Doorman (aircraft carrier)]
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A.
HNLMS
HNLMS is a ship prefix used by the Royal Netherlands Navy, standing for "His/Her Netherlands Majesty's Ship."
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B.
HNLMS Dolfijn
HNLMS Dolfijn is a Royal Netherlands Navy Walrus-class diesel-electric attack submarine used for intelligence gathering, surveillance, and special operations.
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C.
HNLMS Walrus
HNLMS Walrus is a Dutch Walrus-class attack submarine known for its advanced stealth capabilities and service in the Royal Netherlands Navy.
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D.
HNLMS Bruinvis
HNLMS Bruinvis is a Walrus-class diesel-electric attack submarine of the Royal Netherlands Navy known for its stealth and intelligence-gathering capabilities.
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E.
Dutch Navy ship HNLMS De Ruyter
HNLMS De Ruyter is a Royal Netherlands Navy warship named in honor of the famed 17th-century Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter.
- 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: HNLMS Karel Doorman (aircraft carrier) Target entity description: HNLMS Karel Doorman was a Dutch Colossus-class aircraft carrier that served as the flagship of the Royal Netherlands Navy during the Cold War.
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A.
HNLMS
HNLMS is a ship prefix used by the Royal Netherlands Navy, standing for "His/Her Netherlands Majesty's Ship."
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B.
HNLMS Dolfijn
HNLMS Dolfijn is a Royal Netherlands Navy Walrus-class diesel-electric attack submarine used for intelligence gathering, surveillance, and special operations.
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C.
HNLMS Walrus
HNLMS Walrus is a Dutch Walrus-class attack submarine known for its advanced stealth capabilities and service in the Royal Netherlands Navy.
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D.
HNLMS Bruinvis
HNLMS Bruinvis is a Walrus-class diesel-electric attack submarine of the Royal Netherlands Navy known for its stealth and intelligence-gathering capabilities.
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E.
Dutch Navy ship HNLMS De Ruyter
HNLMS De Ruyter is a Royal Netherlands Navy warship named in honor of the famed 17th-century Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Colossus-class aircraft carrier
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aircraft carrier ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Royal Netherlands Navy ⓘ |
| aircraftCarried |
fixed-wing aircraft
ⓘ
helicopters ⓘ |
| armament | anti-aircraft guns ⓘ |
| beam | approximately 24 meters ⓘ |
| builder | Cammell Laird ⓘ |
| builtAt | Birkenhead ⓘ |
| category |
Cold War aircraft carriers of the Netherlands
ⓘ
Colossus-class aircraft carriers of the Royal Netherlands Navy ⓘ |
| class | Colossus class ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1944 ⓘ |
| commissionedInRoyalNetherlandsNavy | 1948 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| displacement | approximately 19,000 tons (full load) ⓘ |
| era | World War II era design ⓘ |
| flagshipOf | Royal Netherlands Navy ⓘ |
| hullType | light fleet carrier ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1942 ⓘ |
| launched | December 30, 1943 ⓘ |
| length | approximately 211 meters ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 25 knots ⓘ |
| modernizedFor |
anti-submarine warfare
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jet aircraft operations ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Karel Doorman ⓘ |
| nationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| navalPrefix | HNLMS ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Netherlands Navy ⓘ |
| originatedAs | Royal Navy light fleet carrier ⓘ |
| pennantNumber | R81 ⓘ |
| previousName |
HMS Venerable (R63)
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linked to:
HMS Venerable
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| propulsion |
4 shafts
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steam turbines ⓘ |
| role |
anti-submarine warfare carrier
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flagship ⓘ fleet carrier ⓘ |
| servedInConflict | Cold War ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Netherlands Navy ⓘ |
| shipyard |
Cammell Laird Shipyard
ⓘ
linked to:
Cammell Laird
|
| soldBy | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| usedAs |
power projection platform
ⓘ
training platform ⓘ |
| usedBy | Netherlands ⓘ |
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: HNLMS Karel Doorman (aircraft carrier) Description of subject: HNLMS Karel Doorman was a Dutch Colossus-class aircraft carrier that served as the flagship of the Royal Netherlands Navy during the Cold War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.