Wasp (American Revolutionary War ship)
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Wasp (American Revolutionary War ship) was a Continental Navy schooner that served as a privateer and naval vessel against British shipping during the American Revolutionary War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wasp (American Revolutionary War ship) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6979152 — 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: Wasp (American Revolutionary War ship) Context triple: [USS Wasp (CV-18), namedAfter, Wasp (American Revolutionary War ship)]
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A.
Hancock (Continental Navy frigate)
Hancock was a 32-gun Continental Navy frigate of the American Revolutionary War, notable for her early successes against British shipping before being captured by the Royal Navy.
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B.
HMS Leopard
HMS Leopard is a fictional Royal Navy warship featured in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin historical novel series.
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C.
HMS Serapis
HMS Serapis was a British Royal Navy warship best known for its capture by John Paul Jones’s Bonhomme Richard during a fierce 1779 naval battle off Flamborough Head in the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
French ship Brave
The French ship Brave was a French naval vessel that took part in the early 19th-century Napoleonic Wars, notably fighting in the Battle of San Domingo.
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E.
Fort Constitution
Fort Constitution is a historic coastal defense fortification located at the mouth of the Piscataqua River in New Castle, near Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
- 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: Wasp (American Revolutionary War ship) Target entity description: Wasp (American Revolutionary War ship) was a Continental Navy schooner that served as a privateer and naval vessel against British shipping during the American Revolutionary War.
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A.
Hancock (Continental Navy frigate)
Hancock was a 32-gun Continental Navy frigate of the American Revolutionary War, notable for her early successes against British shipping before being captured by the Royal Navy.
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B.
HMS Leopard
HMS Leopard is a fictional Royal Navy warship featured in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin historical novel series.
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C.
HMS Serapis
HMS Serapis was a British Royal Navy warship best known for its capture by John Paul Jones’s Bonhomme Richard during a fierce 1779 naval battle off Flamborough Head in the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
French ship Brave
The French ship Brave was a French naval vessel that took part in the early 19th-century Napoleonic Wars, notably fighting in the Battle of San Domingo.
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E.
Fort Constitution
Fort Constitution is a historic coastal defense fortification located at the mouth of the Piscataqua River in New Castle, near Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Continental Navy ship
ⓘ
naval ship ⓘ privateer ⓘ schooner ⓘ |
| allegiance |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| era | 18th century ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | American Revolutionary era ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
history of the Continental Navy
ⓘ
naval history of the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| namedAfter | wasp ⓘ |
| operatedAs |
naval vessel
ⓘ
privateer vessel ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Continental Navy ⓘ |
| opponent | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| partOf | American naval forces in the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| role |
privateer raider
ⓘ
warship ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Continental Navy ⓘ |
| shipType | schooner ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
North American coastal waters ⓘ |
| usedFor |
attacking British shipping
ⓘ
commerce raiding ⓘ |
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: Wasp (American Revolutionary War ship) Description of subject: Wasp (American Revolutionary War ship) was a Continental Navy schooner that served as a privateer and naval vessel against British shipping during the American Revolutionary War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.