Italian heavy cruiser Pola

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Zara-class heavy cruiser cruiser warship

Italian heavy cruiser Pola was a Zara-class warship of the Regia Marina that served in World War II and was sunk by the British Royal Navy during the Battle of Cape Matapan in 1941.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Italian cruiser Pola	2
Italian heavy cruiser Pola canonical	2

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12748632 — 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: Italian heavy cruiser Pola
Context triple: [Battle of Cape Matapan, involvedShip, Italian heavy cruiser Pola]

A. Italian heavy cruiser Zara
Italian heavy cruiser Zara was a World War II-era lead ship of the Zara-class heavy cruisers of the Regia Marina, noted for her powerful armor and armament before being lost in combat.
B. Italian cruiser Gorizia
Italian cruiser Gorizia was a Zara-class heavy cruiser of the Regia Marina that served as a major Italian surface combatant in the Mediterranean during World War II.
C. Italian cruiser Trieste
Italian cruiser Trieste was a Trento-class heavy cruiser of the Regia Marina that served as a major Italian warship in World War II before being sunk by Allied air attacks in 1943.
D. Italian cruiser Bolzano
Italian cruiser Bolzano was a Trento-class heavy cruiser of the Regia Marina that served as a fast, heavily armed warship in the Mediterranean during World War II.
E. Italian cruiser Fiume
Italian cruiser Fiume was a Zara-class heavy cruiser of the Regia Marina that saw significant action in World War II before being sunk by British forces at the Battle of Cape Matapan 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: Italian heavy cruiser Pola
Target entity description: Italian heavy cruiser Pola was a Zara-class warship of the Regia Marina that served in World War II and was sunk by the British Royal Navy during the Battle of Cape Matapan in 1941.

A. Italian heavy cruiser Zara
Italian heavy cruiser Zara was a World War II-era lead ship of the Zara-class heavy cruisers of the Regia Marina, noted for her powerful armor and armament before being lost in combat.
B. Italian cruiser Gorizia
Italian cruiser Gorizia was a Zara-class heavy cruiser of the Regia Marina that served as a major Italian surface combatant in the Mediterranean during World War II.
C. Italian cruiser Trieste
Italian cruiser Trieste was a Trento-class heavy cruiser of the Regia Marina that served as a major Italian warship in World War II before being sunk by Allied air attacks in 1943.
D. Italian cruiser Bolzano
Italian cruiser Bolzano was a Trento-class heavy cruiser of the Regia Marina that served as a fast, heavily armed warship in the Mediterranean during World War II.
E. Italian cruiser Fiume
Italian cruiser Fiume was a Zara-class heavy cruiser of the Regia Marina that saw significant action in World War II before being sunk by British forces at the Battle of Cape Matapan in 1941.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (37)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Zara-class heavy cruiser ⓘ cruiser ⓘ warship ⓘ
belligerent	Axis powers NERFINISHED ⓘ Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ
builtFor	Regia Marina NERFINISHED ⓘ
class	Zara class NERFINISHED ⓘ
conflict	World War II ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Kingdom of Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ
displacementClass	10,000-ton treaty cruiser ⓘ
engagedBy	Royal Navy battleships NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Navy destroyers NERFINISHED ⓘ
era	World War II ⓘ surface form: World War II era interwar period ⓘ
fate	sunk ⓘ
locationOfWreck	Mediterranean Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ
namedAfter	Pola NERFINISHED ⓘ city of Pula NERFINISHED ⓘ
nationality	Italian ⓘ
navalRole	fleet escort ⓘ surface combatant ⓘ
navalTheater	Mediterranean Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ
operator	Regia Marina NERFINISHED ⓘ
participatedIn	Battle of Cape Matapan NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Italian cruiser force at Battle of Cape Matapan ⓘ
serviceBranch	Regia Marina NERFINISHED ⓘ
shipCategory	capital ship-sized cruiser ⓘ
shipType	heavy cruiser ⓘ
sisterShip	Italian heavy cruiser Fiume NERFINISHED ⓘ Italian heavy cruiser Gorizia NERFINISHED ⓘ Italian heavy cruiser Zara NERFINISHED ⓘ
status	shipwreck ⓘ
sunkBy	British Royal Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ
sunkDuring	night action at Cape Matapan ⓘ
sunkIn	Battle of Cape Matapan NERFINISHED ⓘ
sunkInYear	1941 ⓘ
usedBy	Italian Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Matapan 1941 → involvedShip → Italian heavy cruiser Pola ⓘ

subject surface form: Battle of Cape Matapan

Matapan 1941 → sunkShip → Italian heavy cruiser Pola ⓘ

subject surface form: Battle of Cape Matapan

Zara-class cruisers → shipInClass → Italian heavy cruiser Pola ⓘ

subject surface form: Zara-class cruiser

this entity surface form: Italian cruiser Pola

Italian cruiser Fiume → sisterShip → Italian heavy cruiser Pola ⓘ