SMS König Wilhelm
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SMS König Wilhelm was a 19th-century Prussian ironclad warship that served as a powerful armored frigate and later as a flagship in the Imperial German Navy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| SMS König Wilhelm canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10327428 — 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: SMS König Wilhelm Context triple: [Prussian Navy, notableShip, SMS König Wilhelm]
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A.
SMS König
SMS König was a German Kaiser-class battleship that served as the lead ship of her class in the Imperial German Navy during World War I, notably participating in the Battle of Jutland.
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B.
SMS Kronprinz
SMS Kronprinz was a German Kaiserliche Marine König-class battleship that served in World War I, including at the Battle of Jutland.
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C.
SMS Markgraf
SMS Markgraf was a German Kaiser-class dreadnought battleship of the Imperial German Navy that served in World War I, including at the Battle of Jutland.
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D.
SMS Tegetthoff
SMS Tegetthoff was a Tegetthoff-class dreadnought battleship that served as one of the Austro-Hungarian Navy’s most powerful and modern capital ships during World War I.
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E.
SMS Friedrich der Grosse
SMS Friedrich der Grosse was a Kaiser-class battleship that served as the fleet flagship of the Imperial German Navy during World War I.
- 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: SMS König Wilhelm Target entity description: SMS König Wilhelm was a 19th-century Prussian ironclad warship that served as a powerful armored frigate and later as a flagship in the Imperial German Navy.
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A.
SMS König
SMS König was a German Kaiser-class battleship that served as the lead ship of her class in the Imperial German Navy during World War I, notably participating in the Battle of Jutland.
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B.
SMS Kronprinz
SMS Kronprinz was a German Kaiserliche Marine König-class battleship that served in World War I, including at the Battle of Jutland.
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C.
SMS Markgraf
SMS Markgraf was a German Kaiser-class dreadnought battleship of the Imperial German Navy that served in World War I, including at the Battle of Jutland.
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D.
SMS Tegetthoff
SMS Tegetthoff was a Tegetthoff-class dreadnought battleship that served as one of the Austro-Hungarian Navy’s most powerful and modern capital ships during World War I.
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E.
SMS Friedrich der Grosse
SMS Friedrich der Grosse was a Kaiser-class battleship that served as the fleet flagship of the Imperial German Navy during World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
armored frigate
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ironclad warship ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| armament |
broadside guns
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heavy naval guns ⓘ rifled muzzle-loading guns ⓘ |
| category |
19th-century warships of Germany
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Flagships of the Imperial German Navy ⓘ Ironclad frigates of Germany ⓘ Ships of the Prussian Navy ⓘ |
| conflictParticipation | Franco-Prussian War ⓘ |
| country |
German Empire
ⓘ
Kingdom of Prussia ⓘ
linked to:
Prussia
|
| countryOfOrigin | Prussia ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| flagshipOf | Imperial German Navy ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
armored belt
ⓘ
armored casemate ⓘ broadside artillery ⓘ ram bow ⓘ |
| material | iron ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
King William I of Prussia
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König Wilhelm I ⓘ
linked to:
Wilhelm I of Prussia
|
| navalTechnology |
iron armor
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rifled naval guns ⓘ steam propulsion ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the most powerful Prussian ironclads of its time
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service as an early flagship of the Imperial German Navy ⓘ |
| operator |
Imperial German Navy
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Prussian Navy ⓘ |
| propulsion | steam engine ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | navy ⓘ |
| shipClass | König Wilhelm-class ironclad ⓘ |
| shipType |
armored frigate
ⓘ
central battery ironclad ⓘ |
| status | decommissioned ⓘ |
| usedFor |
coastal defense
ⓘ
fleet flagship duties ⓘ naval warfare ⓘ training ⓘ |
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: SMS König Wilhelm Description of subject: SMS König Wilhelm was a 19th-century Prussian ironclad warship that served as a powerful armored frigate and later as a flagship in the Imperial German Navy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.