HMS Shannon
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HMS Shannon was a notable 38-gun Leda-class frigate of the Royal Navy, famed for her victory over the USS Chesapeake during the War of 1812.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Shannon canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6480207 — 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 Shannon Context triple: [Sir Provo Wallis, shipServedOn, HMS Shannon]
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HMS Bellerophon
HMS Bellerophon was a British Royal Navy ship of the line famed for her prominent role in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including the surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard her in 1815.
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B.
HMS Tagus
HMS Tagus was a Royal Navy frigate active in the early 19th century, known for its service during the Napoleonic Wars and related maritime operations.
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C.
HMS Bellona
HMS Bellona is a fictional Royal Navy ship of the line featured in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin series of historical naval novels.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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 Shannon Target entity description: HMS Shannon was a notable 38-gun Leda-class frigate of the Royal Navy, famed for her victory over the USS Chesapeake during the War of 1812.
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A.
HMS Bellerophon
HMS Bellerophon was a British Royal Navy ship of the line famed for her prominent role in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including the surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard her in 1815.
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B.
HMS Tagus
HMS Tagus was a Royal Navy frigate active in the early 19th century, known for its service during the Napoleonic Wars and related maritime operations.
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C.
HMS Bellona
HMS Bellona is a fictional Royal Navy ship of the line featured in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin series of historical naval novels.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Shannon Description of subject: HMS Shannon was a notable 38-gun Leda-class frigate of the Royal Navy, famed for her victory over the USS Chesapeake during the War of 1812.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.