Ship of the Line
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"Ship of the Line" is a historical naval novel by C. S. Forester featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower during the Napoleonic Wars.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Ship of the Line | 1 |
| Ship of the Line canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12894235 — 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: Ship of the Line Context triple: [C. S. Forester, wrote, Ship of the Line]
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A.
Count of Longueville
The Count of Longueville was a prominent French noble title historically associated with high-ranking members of the royal House of Orléans.
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B.
The Brig
The Brig is a 1964 experimental film by Jonas Mekas that presents a stark, cinéma-vérité-style depiction of life inside a U.S. Marine Corps prison.
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C.
Redoubtable
Redoubtable is a 2017 French biographical comedy-drama film by Michel Hazanavicius that portrays director Jean-Luc Godard during the tumultuous period of the late 1960s.
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D.
HMS Temeraire
HMS Temeraire was a famed 98-gun British ship of the line of the Napoleonic era, celebrated for its heroic role alongside HMS Victory and its later immortalization in J. M. W. Turner’s painting "The Fighting Temeraire."
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E.
The Ships
"The Ships" is the English meaning of the Greek title "As Naus," likely referring to a work centered on maritime themes or vessels.
- 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: Ship of the Line Target entity description: "Ship of the Line" is a historical naval novel by C. S. Forester featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower during the Napoleonic Wars.
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A.
Count of Longueville
The Count of Longueville was a prominent French noble title historically associated with high-ranking members of the royal House of Orléans.
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B.
The Brig
The Brig is a 1964 experimental film by Jonas Mekas that presents a stark, cinéma-vérité-style depiction of life inside a U.S. Marine Corps prison.
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C.
Redoubtable
Redoubtable is a 2017 French biographical comedy-drama film by Michel Hazanavicius that portrays director Jean-Luc Godard during the tumultuous period of the late 1960s.
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D.
HMS Temeraire
HMS Temeraire was a famed 98-gun British ship of the line of the Napoleonic era, celebrated for its heroic role alongside HMS Victory and its later immortalization in J. M. W. Turner’s painting "The Fighting Temeraire."
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E.
The Ships
"The Ships" is the English meaning of the Greek title "As Naus," likely referring to a work centered on maritime themes or vessels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical novel
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nautical novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptationCharacter | Ioan Gruffudd as Horatio Hornblower NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| adaptedInto | television film ⓘ |
| author | C. S. Forester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Admiral Leighton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bush NERFINISHED ⓘ Horatio Hornblower NERFINISHED ⓘ Lady Barbara Wellesley NERFINISHED ⓘ Maria Hornblower NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresConflict | Napoleonic Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresMilitaryBranch | Royal Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Hornblower universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Flying Colours NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
ⓘ
naval fiction ⓘ |
| hasFictionalCharacter |
Admiral Leighton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bush NERFINISHED ⓘ Horatio Hornblower NERFINISHED ⓘ Lady Barbara Wellesley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Age of Sail naval warfare
ⓘ
Royal Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
honor
ⓘ
marital conflict ⓘ naval leadership ⓘ personal sacrifice ⓘ war and duty ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Horatio Hornblower NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
naval command
ⓘ
personal duty and honor ⓘ sea battles ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Hornblower book series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Happy Return NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistAffiliation | Royal Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistRank | captain ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1938 ⓘ |
| publisher | Michael Joseph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| series | Horatio Hornblower NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
Napoleonic Wars
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
early 19th century ⓘ |
| titleCharacterVesselType | ship of the line ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Ship of the Line Description of subject: "Ship of the Line" is a historical naval novel by C. S. Forester featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower during the Napoleonic Wars.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
A Ship of the Line