German tanker Altmark
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The German tanker Altmark was a World War II-era naval auxiliary ship of Nazi Germany, best known for its role in the 1940 Altmark Incident involving the rescue of British prisoners in Norwegian waters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| German tanker Altmark canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T76082 — 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: German tanker Altmark Context triple: [Altmark Incident, involvedShip, German tanker Altmark]
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USS Arizona (BB-39)
USS Arizona (BB-39) was a Pennsylvania-class U.S. Navy battleship whose catastrophic destruction and loss of life during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor made it one of the most iconic symbols of the United States’ entry into World War II.
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B.
Kaga
Kaga was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk at the Battle of Midway in 1942.
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C.
Akagi
Akagi was a prominent Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk during World War II.
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D.
USS Utah (AG-16)
USS Utah (AG-16) was a former U.S. battleship converted to a target and training ship that was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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E.
USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was a Nevada-class battleship of the United States Navy that capsized and was lost during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
- 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: German tanker Altmark Target entity description: The German tanker Altmark was a World War II-era naval auxiliary ship of Nazi Germany, best known for its role in the 1940 Altmark Incident involving the rescue of British prisoners in Norwegian waters.
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A.
USS Arizona (BB-39)
USS Arizona (BB-39) was a Pennsylvania-class U.S. Navy battleship whose catastrophic destruction and loss of life during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor made it one of the most iconic symbols of the United States’ entry into World War II.
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B.
Kaga
Kaga was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk at the Battle of Midway in 1942.
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C.
Akagi
Akagi was a prominent Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk during World War II.
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D.
USS Utah (AG-16)
USS Utah (AG-16) was a former U.S. battleship converted to a target and training ship that was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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E.
USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was a Nevada-class battleship of the United States Navy that capsized and was lost during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German ship
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naval auxiliary ship ⓘ tanker ⓘ |
| armamentDuringWar | light defensive guns ⓘ |
| attackedBy | HMS Cossack ⓘ |
| builtFor | German Navy logistics support ⓘ |
| capturedBy | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| carriedPrisonersFrom | merchant ships sunk by Admiral Graf Spee ⓘ |
| claimedStatusDuringIncident | unarmed merchant vessel ⓘ |
| completed | 1939 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | 1940 ⓘ |
| dateOfLoss | 1942 ⓘ |
| displacementApproximate | about 20,000 tons ⓘ |
| eventLocation | Norwegian waters ⓘ |
| fate | destroyed by explosion ⓘ |
| flagAtTimeOfIncident | German merchant flag ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
precedent for British actions in neutral waters
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symbol of German commerce raider support network ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1937 ⓘ |
| launched | 1938 ⓘ |
| legalIssue |
violation of Norwegian neutrality alleged by Britain
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violation of international law alleged by Germany ⓘ |
| neutralWatersInvolved | Norway ⓘ |
| notableFor | Altmark Incident ⓘ |
| numberOfPrisonersApproximate | around 300 British prisoners ⓘ |
| operator | Kriegsmarine ⓘ |
| placeOfLoss | Yokohama ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | supply ship for warships ⓘ |
| propulsion | diesel engine ⓘ |
| relatedIncident | Battle of the River Plate ⓘ |
| renamed | Uckermark ⓘ |
| renamedInYear | 1940 ⓘ |
| resultOfIncident |
diplomatic crisis between United Kingdom and Norway
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release of British prisoners ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | transport of British prisoners of war ⓘ |
| routeDuringIncident | from South Atlantic to Germany via Norwegian coastal waters ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | pre-World War II ⓘ |
| shipType | fleet oiler ⓘ |
| supportedVessel | Admiral Graf Spee ⓘ |
| usedBy | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| usedFor | refueling German surface raiders ⓘ |
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: German tanker Altmark Description of subject: The German tanker Altmark was a World War II-era naval auxiliary ship of Nazi Germany, best known for its role in the 1940 Altmark Incident involving the rescue of British prisoners in Norwegian waters.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.