Old Reliable
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Old Reliable is the affectionate nickname given to the RMS Olympic, the long-serving sister ship of the Titanic known for her dependable transatlantic service.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Old Reliable canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13203388 — 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: Old Reliable Context triple: [RMS Olympic, nicknamed, Old Reliable]
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A.
Old Reliable
Old Reliable is the historic nickname of Michigan’s Quincy Mine, a highly productive and long-operating copper mine on the Keweenaw Peninsula.
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B.
Mean Old Man
"Mean Old Man" is a song featured on the album *October Road* by singer-songwriter James Taylor.
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Olden
Olden is a surname most notably associated with Charles Smith Olden, a 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of New Jersey.
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D.
Old
"Old" is a 2021 psychological horror thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan about a family on a secluded beach where rapid aging turns a single day into a lifetime.
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E.
Old Q
Old Q was the popular nickname of William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, an 18th-century Scottish nobleman notorious in London society for his immense wealth, gambling, and libertine lifestyle.
- 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: Old Reliable Target entity description: Old Reliable is the affectionate nickname given to the RMS Olympic, the long-serving sister ship of the Titanic known for her dependable transatlantic service.
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A.
Old Reliable
Old Reliable is the historic nickname of Michigan’s Quincy Mine, a highly productive and long-operating copper mine on the Keweenaw Peninsula.
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B.
Mean Old Man
"Mean Old Man" is a song featured on the album *October Road* by singer-songwriter James Taylor.
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C.
Olden
Olden is a surname most notably associated with Charles Smith Olden, a 19th-century American politician who served as Governor of New Jersey.
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D.
Old
"Old" is a 2021 psychological horror thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan about a family on a secluded beach where rapid aging turns a single day into a lifetime.
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E.
Old Q
Old Q was the popular nickname of William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, an 18th-century Scottish nobleman notorious in London society for his immense wealth, gambling, and libertine lifestyle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
nickname
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ocean liner ⓘ passenger ship ⓘ |
| appliedTo | RMS Olympic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builder | Harland and Wolff shipyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtBy | Harland and Wolff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| class | Olympic class ⓘ |
| completed | 1911-05-31 ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enteredService | 1911 ⓘ |
| flag | Red Ensign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grossRegisterTonnage | approximately 45,000 GRT ⓘ |
| hasQualifier | affectionate nickname ⓘ |
| hasReputationFor |
dependability
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reliable transatlantic service ⓘ |
| homePort | Liverpool NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| launched | 1910-10-20 ⓘ |
| length | about 269 meters ⓘ |
| memberOf | Olympic-class ocean liner ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| nickname | Old Reliable NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
long and reliable service life
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serving in World War I ⓘ |
| numberOfFunnels | 4 ⓘ |
| operatedOnRoute | transatlantic route ⓘ |
| operator | White Star Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Oceanic Steam Navigation Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portOfRegistry | Liverpool NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propulsion | steam engines ⓘ |
| refersTo | RMS Olympic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredFromService | 1935 ⓘ |
| roleDuringWorldWarI | troopship ⓘ |
| route | Southampton–New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scrapped | 1937 ⓘ |
| serviceType | North Atlantic passenger service ⓘ |
| shipyard | Harland and Wolff, Belfast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sisterShipOf |
HMHS Britannic
NERFINISHED
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RMS Titanic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sisterShipTo |
HMHS Britannic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
RMS Titanic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Old Reliable Description of subject: Old Reliable is the affectionate nickname given to the RMS Olympic, the long-serving sister ship of the Titanic known for her dependable transatlantic service.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.