HMS Worcester
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HMS Worcester is a fictional Royal Navy ship of the line featured in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin historical naval novels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HMS Worcester canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6246993 — 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 Worcester Context triple: [Jack Aubrey, commands, HMS Worcester]
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A.
HMS Berwick
HMS Berwick was a Royal Navy ship of the line that served in the 18th century and is notably associated with the early career of Admiral Edward Hawke.
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B.
HMS Dorset
HMS Dorset was a British merchant vessel that served in World War II and was sunk during the critical 1942 Malta convoy mission known as Operation Pedestal.
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C.
HMS Burford
HMS Burford was a Royal Navy ship of the line that served in the 18th century, notably participating in major fleet actions such as those off Porto Bello during Britain’s colonial-era naval conflicts.
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D.
HMS Levant
HMS Levant was a British Royal Navy warship of the Age of Sail, best known as one of the vessels captured by the American frigate USS Constitution during the War of 1812.
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E.
HMS Norwich
HMS Norwich was a Royal Navy warship that served as part of the British fleet during the 1739 capture of Porto Bello in the War of Jenkins’ Ear.
- 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 Worcester Target entity description: HMS Worcester is a fictional Royal Navy ship of the line featured in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin historical naval novels.
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A.
HMS Berwick
HMS Berwick was a Royal Navy ship of the line that served in the 18th century and is notably associated with the early career of Admiral Edward Hawke.
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B.
HMS Dorset
HMS Dorset was a British merchant vessel that served in World War II and was sunk during the critical 1942 Malta convoy mission known as Operation Pedestal.
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C.
HMS Burford
HMS Burford was a Royal Navy ship of the line that served in the 18th century, notably participating in major fleet actions such as those off Porto Bello during Britain’s colonial-era naval conflicts.
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D.
HMS Levant
HMS Levant was a British Royal Navy warship of the Age of Sail, best known as one of the vessels captured by the American frigate USS Constitution during the War of 1812.
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E.
HMS Norwich
HMS Norwich was a Royal Navy warship that served as part of the British fleet during the 1739 capture of Porto Bello in the War of Jenkins’ Ear.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy ship
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fictional ship ⓘ ship of the line ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Aubrey–Maturin series
ⓘ
Patrick O’Brian’s novels ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre |
adventure fiction
ⓘ
historical novel ⓘ sea story ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Age of Sail naval warfare
ⓘ
linked to:
Age of Sail
|
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator |
Patrick O’Brian
ⓘ
linked to:
Patrick O'Brian
|
| depictsConflict |
Napoleonic Wars at sea
ⓘ
linked to:
Napoleonic Wars
|
| depictsHistoricalEra | Age of Sail ⓘ |
| depictsOrganization | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| fictionalCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre | historical naval fiction ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | British maritime history ⓘ |
| hasFictionalStatus | fictional ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literarySeriesAuthor |
Patrick O’Brian
ⓘ
linked to:
Patrick O'Brian
|
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | setting ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| universe |
Aubrey–Maturin universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Aubrey–Maturin series
|
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 Worcester Description of subject: HMS Worcester is a fictional Royal Navy ship of the line featured in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin historical naval novels.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.