HMS Ardent
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HMS Ardent was a Royal Navy Type 21 frigate that gained prominence for her role and sinking during the Falklands War in 1982.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HMS Ardent canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11184406 — 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 Ardent Context triple: [Battle of San Carlos, notableShip, HMS Ardent]
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A.
HMS Attack
HMS Attack was a Royal Navy warship that served during the Napoleonic Wars and took part in major naval actions such as the Battle of San Domingo.
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B.
HMS Ambush
HMS Ambush is a British Royal Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Astute class, designed for stealth, intelligence gathering, and precision strike capabilities.
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C.
HMS Audacious
HMS Audacious was a British King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that served during World War II.
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D.
HMS Audacious
HMS Audacious is a nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Royal Navy’s Astute class, designed for stealth, intelligence gathering, and precision strike capabilities.
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E.
HMS Dauntless
HMS Dauntless is a Royal Navy Type 45 (Daring-class) air-defence destroyer known for its advanced radar and missile systems and service in fleet protection and international deployments.
- 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 Ardent Target entity description: HMS Ardent was a Royal Navy Type 21 frigate that gained prominence for her role and sinking during the Falklands War in 1982.
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A.
HMS Attack
HMS Attack was a Royal Navy warship that served during the Napoleonic Wars and took part in major naval actions such as the Battle of San Domingo.
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B.
HMS Ambush
HMS Ambush is a British Royal Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Astute class, designed for stealth, intelligence gathering, and precision strike capabilities.
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C.
HMS Audacious
HMS Audacious is a nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Royal Navy’s Astute class, designed for stealth, intelligence gathering, and precision strike capabilities.
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D.
HMS Audacious
HMS Audacious was a British King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that served during World War II.
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E.
HMS Dauntless
HMS Dauntless is a Royal Navy Type 45 (Daring-class) air-defence destroyer known for its advanced radar and missile systems and service in fleet protection and international deployments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Amazon-class frigate
ⓘ
Royal Navy frigate ⓘ Type 21 frigate ⓘ |
| aircraftCarried | Lynx helicopter ⓘ |
| armament |
1 × 4.5 inch (114 mm) Mark 8 naval gun
ⓘ
Exocet anti-ship missiles (fitted to Type 21 class; some ships received them later) ⓘ
linked to:
Exocet anti-ship missile
Sea Cat surface-to-air missile system ⓘ
linked to:
Sea Cat missile system (early service)
torpedo tubes ⓘ |
| attacker |
Argentine Air Force
ⓘ
Argentine Naval Aviation ⓘ
linked to:
Argentine Navy
|
| builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders ⓘ |
| builtAt |
Scotstoun, Glasgow, Scotland
ⓘ
linked to:
Scotstoun district of Glasgow
|
| casualties | 22 crew killed (approximate widely cited figure) ⓘ |
| causeOfSinking | Argentine air attack ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1977-10-14 ⓘ |
| conflict | Falklands War ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crewComplement | about 177 officers and ratings ⓘ |
| dateOfFirstAttack | 1982-05-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfSinking | 1982-05-21 ⓘ |
| displacement | 3250 tons (approximate full load) ⓘ |
| fate | Sunk in action ⓘ |
| flag | White Ensign ⓘ |
| hitBy |
Argentine A-4 Skyhawk aircraft
ⓘ
bombs and cannon fire ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1973-02-26 ⓘ |
| launched | 1974-05-09 ⓘ |
| length | 117 metres (approximate) ⓘ |
| missionDuringFalklandsWar | naval gunfire support in Falkland Sound ⓘ |
| namedAfter | previous Royal Navy ships named HMS Ardent ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being sunk during the Falklands War
ⓘ
providing naval gunfire support to British landings in 1982 ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Operation Corporate ⓘ |
| pennantNumber | F184 ⓘ |
| placeOfSinking |
Falkland Sound
ⓘ
near North West Island, Falkland Islands ⓘ |
| propulsion | COGOG gas-turbine system ⓘ |
| role |
anti-submarine warfare
ⓘ
general-purpose escort ⓘ |
| serviceEndYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| serviceEntryYear | 1977 ⓘ |
| shipClass |
Amazon-class frigate
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Type 21 frigate ⓘ |
| squadron | 4th Frigate Squadron ⓘ |
| status | war grave ⓘ |
| successorClass |
Type 23 frigate (as replacement class in Royal Navy service)
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linked to:
Royal Navy Type 23 frigate
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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 Ardent Description of subject: HMS Ardent was a Royal Navy Type 21 frigate that gained prominence for her role and sinking during the Falklands War in 1982.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.