Ictíneo I
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Ictíneo I was an early pioneering submarine designed and built in the 19th century by Spanish engineer Narcís Monturiol to demonstrate practical underwater navigation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ictíneo I canonical | 2 |
| Ictíneo II | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9290384 — 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: Ictíneo I Context triple: [Narcís Monturiol, notableWork, Ictíneo I]
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A.
Eupator
Eupator is an epithet meaning "of a noble father," famously borne by Mithridates VI, the powerful king of Pontus and adversary of Rome.
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B.
Dioga
Dioga is the feminine given name or form corresponding to the masculine name Diogo.
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C.
King Cocalus
King Cocalus is a mythical Sicilian ruler in Greek mythology best known for sheltering the inventor Daedalus and ultimately causing the death of King Minos.
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D.
Erquito
Erquito is a small locality within the municipality of Alajeró on the island of La Gomera in Spain’s Canary Islands.
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E.
Damastes
Damastes is a figure from Greek mythology better known by the epithet Procrustes, a bandit infamous for violently stretching or cutting his victims to make them fit an iron bed.
- 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: Ictíneo I Target entity description: Ictíneo I was an early pioneering submarine designed and built in the 19th century by Spanish engineer Narcís Monturiol to demonstrate practical underwater navigation.
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A.
Eupator
Eupator is an epithet meaning "of a noble father," famously borne by Mithridates VI, the powerful king of Pontus and adversary of Rome.
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B.
Dioga
Dioga is the feminine given name or form corresponding to the masculine name Diogo.
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C.
King Cocalus
King Cocalus is a mythical Sicilian ruler in Greek mythology best known for sheltering the inventor Daedalus and ultimately causing the death of King Minos.
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D.
Erquito
Erquito is a small locality within the municipality of Alajeró on the island of La Gomera in Spain’s Canary Islands.
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E.
Damastes
Damastes is a figure from Greek mythology better known by the epithet Procrustes, a bandit infamous for violently stretching or cutting his victims to make them fit an iron bed.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
experimental submarine
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prototype vehicle ⓘ submarine ⓘ |
| armament | none ⓘ |
| builder | Narcís Monturiol ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Spain ⓘ |
| crewCapacity |
2
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3 ⓘ |
| designedFor |
peaceful applications
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scientific observation underwater ⓘ |
| designer | Narcís Monturiol ⓘ |
| followedBy | Ictíneo II ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
19th-century ships
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Pioneer submarines ⓘ Spanish inventions ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | later submarine designs ⓘ |
| hasPart |
ballast tanks
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chemical air regeneration system ⓘ compressed air system ⓘ viewing ports ⓘ |
| heritage | Spanish maritime engineering ⓘ |
| inception | 1859 ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | need to improve safety for coral divers ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Catalan ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1859 ⓘ |
| locatedInPresent | no surviving original hull ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| locationOfConstruction | Barcelona ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
copper sheathing
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wooden hull ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | fish-ship ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first practical submarines
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early use of chemical air regeneration ⓘ pioneering civilian submarine design ⓘ |
| operatingArea | Port of Barcelona ⓘ |
| operator | Narcís Monturiol ⓘ |
| partOf | history of submarine development ⓘ |
| propulsionSystem |
hand-cranked propeller
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human-powered propulsion ⓘ |
| purpose |
civilian use
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demonstration of practical underwater navigation ⓘ |
| serviceEnd | 1860s ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | 1859 ⓘ |
| status | scrapped ⓘ |
| testedBy | Narcís Monturiol ⓘ |
| usedFor |
experimental dives
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public demonstrations ⓘ |
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: Ictíneo I Description of subject: Ictíneo I was an early pioneering submarine designed and built in the 19th century by Spanish engineer Narcís Monturiol to demonstrate practical underwater navigation.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ictíneo I
linked to: Ictíneo I