HMNZS Te Mana (F111)
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HMNZS Te Mana (F111) is a Royal New Zealand Navy frigate that serves as one of the country’s primary combat warships, designed for multi-role operations including maritime security, surveillance, and coalition deployments.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMNZS Te Mana (F111) canonical | 2 |
| HMNZS Te Mana | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6839930 — 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: HMNZS Te Mana (F111) Context triple: [Anzac-class frigate, navalClassOf, HMNZS Te Mana (F111)]
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A.
HMNZS Te Kaha (F77)
HMNZS Te Kaha (F77) is a Royal New Zealand Navy frigate that serves as one of the country’s primary combat warships, designed for multi-role operations including maritime security, patrol, and coalition deployments.
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B.
HMNZS Gambia
HMNZS Gambia was a Royal New Zealand Navy light cruiser that served with distinction in the British Pacific Fleet during the final stages of World War II.
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C.
HMS Maori
HMS Maori was a British Tribal-class destroyer that served with distinction in the Royal Navy during World War II, notably participating in Mediterranean and North Atlantic operations before being lost in 1942.
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D.
HMNZS Achilles
HMNZS Achilles was a Leander-class light cruiser of the Royal New Zealand Navy that gained fame for its role in the early World War II Battle of the River Plate against the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee.
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E.
HMAS Penguin
HMAS Penguin is a Royal Australian Navy shore establishment and training base located in Sydney, New South Wales.
- 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: HMNZS Te Mana (F111) Target entity description: HMNZS Te Mana (F111) is a Royal New Zealand Navy frigate that serves as one of the country’s primary combat warships, designed for multi-role operations including maritime security, surveillance, and coalition deployments.
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A.
HMNZS Te Kaha (F77)
HMNZS Te Kaha (F77) is a Royal New Zealand Navy frigate that serves as one of the country’s primary combat warships, designed for multi-role operations including maritime security, patrol, and coalition deployments.
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B.
HMNZS Gambia
HMNZS Gambia was a Royal New Zealand Navy light cruiser that served with distinction in the British Pacific Fleet during the final stages of World War II.
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C.
HMS Maori
HMS Maori was a British Tribal-class destroyer that served with distinction in the Royal Navy during World War II, notably participating in Mediterranean and North Atlantic operations before being lost in 1942.
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D.
HMNZS Achilles
HMNZS Achilles was a Leander-class light cruiser of the Royal New Zealand Navy that gained fame for its role in the early World War II Battle of the River Plate against the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee.
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E.
HMAS Penguin
HMAS Penguin is a Royal Australian Navy shore establishment and training base located in Sydney, New South Wales.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anzac-class frigate
ⓘ
Royal New Zealand Navy ship ⓘ guided-missile frigate ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Royal New Zealand Navy Frigate Squadron
ⓘ
linked to:
Royal New Zealand Navy
|
| armament |
Harpoon anti-ship missiles (fitted after upgrade)
ⓘ
Mk 45 127 mm naval gun ⓘ
linked to:
5-inch/54 caliber Mark 45 gun
RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) ⓘ
linked to:
RIM-162 ESSM
close-in weapon systems and machine guns ⓘ torpedo tubes for anti-submarine torpedoes ⓘ |
| aviationFacility | flight deck and hangar for one helicopter ⓘ |
| beam | 14.8 metres (approximate) ⓘ |
| builder |
Tenix Defence
ⓘ
Williamstown Dockyard ⓘ |
| class |
Anzac class
ⓘ
linked to:
Anzac-class frigate
|
| commissioned | 1999 ⓘ |
| country | New Zealand ⓘ |
| crewComplement | approximately 170 personnel ⓘ |
| deployedTo |
Asia-Pacific region
ⓘ
linked to:
Asia-Pacific
Middle East ⓘ |
| displacement | 3600 tonnes (approximate full load) ⓘ |
| embarkedAircraft |
Kaman SH-2G(I) Seasprite helicopter
ⓘ
linked to:
Kaman SH-2G Super Seasprite
|
| flag |
White Ensign of the Royal New Zealand Navy
ⓘ
linked to:
Naval ensign of New Zealand
|
| homeport | Devonport Naval Base ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1994 ⓘ |
| launched | 1997 ⓘ |
| length | 118 metres (approximate) ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | over 27 knots ⓘ |
| modernization | Frigate Systems Upgrade (FSU) ⓘ |
| modernizationLocation | Canada ⓘ |
| modernizationPeriod | 2010s–2020s ⓘ |
| name |
HMNZS Te Mana
ⓘ
linked to:
HMNZS Te Mana (F111)
|
| namedAfter | the Māori concept of mana (authority, prestige, power) ⓘ |
| operator | Royal New Zealand Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn | multinational exercises with allied navies ⓘ |
| pennantNumber | F111 ⓘ |
| primaryRole | multi-role frigate operations ⓘ |
| propulsion | Combined diesel or gas (CODOG) ⓘ |
| range | over 6000 nautical miles at cruising speed ⓘ |
| role |
air defence
ⓘ
anti-submarine warfare ⓘ coalition operations ⓘ escort duties ⓘ maritime security ⓘ maritime surveillance ⓘ surface warfare ⓘ |
| sisterShip | HMNZS Te Kaha (F77) ⓘ |
| status | active service (as of early 2020s) ⓘ |
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: HMNZS Te Mana (F111) Description of subject: HMNZS Te Mana (F111) is a Royal New Zealand Navy frigate that serves as one of the country’s primary combat warships, designed for multi-role operations including maritime security, surveillance, and coalition deployments.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: HMNZS Te Mana (F111)