HMS Prince of Wales
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HMS Prince of Wales is a Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy, designed to project air power and support a wide range of naval operations worldwide.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HMS Prince of Wales canonical | 9 |
| HMS Prince of Wales (R09) | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T791149 — 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 Prince of Wales Context triple: [Fleet Air Arm, operatesFrom, HMS Prince of Wales]
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A.
HMS Prince of Wales
HMS Prince of Wales was a British King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that saw significant action in World War II, including engagements against the German battleship Bismarck and service in the Pacific before being sunk by Japanese aircraft in 1941.
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B.
HMS Warspite
HMS Warspite was a renowned British Royal Navy battleship celebrated for its distinguished combat service in both World Wars.
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C.
HMS Vanguard
HMS Vanguard was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the decisive 1798 Battle of the Nile in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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D.
HMS Invincible
HMS Invincible was a pioneering British battlecruiser of the early 20th century, best known for her dramatic loss during World War I at the Battle of Jutland.
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E.
HMS Britannia
HMS Britannia was a 19th-century Royal Navy training ship that served as the principal officer cadet training establishment before being replaced by the shore-based Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth.
- 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 Prince of Wales Target entity description: HMS Prince of Wales is a Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy, designed to project air power and support a wide range of naval operations worldwide.
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A.
HMS Prince of Wales
HMS Prince of Wales was a British King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that saw significant action in World War II, including engagements against the German battleship Bismarck and service in the Pacific before being sunk by Japanese aircraft in 1941.
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B.
HMS Warspite
HMS Warspite was a renowned British Royal Navy battleship celebrated for its distinguished combat service in both World Wars.
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C.
HMS Vanguard
HMS Vanguard was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the decisive 1798 Battle of the Nile in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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D.
HMS Invincible
HMS Invincible was a pioneering British battlecruiser of the early 20th century, best known for her dramatic loss during World War I at the Battle of Jutland.
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E.
HMS Britannia
HMS Britannia was a 19th-century Royal Navy training ship that served as the principal officer cadet training establishment before being replaced by the shore-based Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier
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Royal Navy ship ⓘ aircraft carrier ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Royal Air Force F-35B squadrons
ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Air Force units
|
| aircraftCapacity |
up to around 40 aircraft in normal operations
ⓘ
up to around 70 aircraft in surge conditions ⓘ |
| airWing |
F-35B Lightning II
ⓘ
Merlin helicopters ⓘ |
| alliance | NATO ⓘ |
| armament |
30 mm guns
ⓘ
Phalanx CIWS ⓘ
linked to:
Phalanx CIWS (modernization era)
|
| builder |
BAE Systems
ⓘ
Babcock International ⓘ |
| class |
Queen Elizabeth class
ⓘ
linked to:
Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers
|
| commissioned | 2019 ⓘ |
| constructionMethod | modular build ⓘ |
| constructionSite |
Rosyth Dockyard
ⓘ
linked to:
Rosyth
|
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crewComplement |
around 700 core ship’s company
ⓘ
up to about 1600 with air group ⓘ |
| defensiveSystem | decoy launchers ⓘ |
| designedFor |
global deployment
ⓘ
joint operations with allies ⓘ |
| designFeature |
STOVL operations
ⓘ
twin island superstructure ⓘ |
| displacement | about 65000 tonnes ⓘ |
| flagshipCapability | can serve as Royal Navy flagship ⓘ |
| flightDeckType | ski-jump ⓘ |
| homeport | HMNB Portsmouth ⓘ |
| laidDown | 2011 ⓘ |
| launched | 2017 ⓘ |
| length | about 280 metres ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Prince of Wales ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| partOf |
Royal Navy Fleet
ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Navy
|
| primaryMission | project air power worldwide ⓘ |
| propulsion |
diesel generators
ⓘ
gas turbines ⓘ integrated electric propulsion ⓘ |
| radar |
Artisan 3D radar
ⓘ
S1850M long-range radar ⓘ |
| role |
NATO operations
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amphibious support ⓘ carrier strike operations ⓘ disaster relief ⓘ humanitarian assistance ⓘ power projection ⓘ |
| sisterShip | HMS Queen Elizabeth ⓘ |
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 Prince of Wales Description of subject: HMS Prince of Wales is a Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy, designed to project air power and support a wide range of naval operations worldwide.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: HMS Prince of Wales
linked to: HMS Prince of Wales
linked to: HMS Prince of Wales