HMS Wager
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HMS Wager was an 18th-century British Royal Navy warship whose wreck and the ensuing mutiny and survival saga became one of maritime history’s most infamous disasters.
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| HMS Wager canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14566650 — 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 Wager Context triple: [The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, subject, HMS Wager]
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HMS Bellipotent
HMS Bellipotent is the fictional British warship that serves as the primary naval setting in Herman Melville’s novella "Billy Budd, Sailor."
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HMS Serapis
HMS Serapis was a British Royal Navy warship best known for its capture by John Paul Jones’s Bonhomme Richard during a fierce 1779 naval battle off Flamborough Head in the American Revolutionary War.
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HMS Sirius
HMS Sirius was the Royal Navy warship that served as the flagship of the First Fleet, leading the establishment of the first British colony in Australia in 1788.
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HMS Unicorn
HMS Unicorn is a Royal Navy Upholder-class diesel-electric attack submarine that served as one of the last conventional submarines built for the United Kingdom before the fleet transitioned to nuclear-powered boats.
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E.
HMS Briton
HMS Briton was a 19th-century Royal Navy warship best known for rediscovering the Bounty mutineers’ community on Pitcairn Island.
- 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 Wager Target entity description: HMS Wager was an 18th-century British Royal Navy warship whose wreck and the ensuing mutiny and survival saga became one of maritime history’s most infamous disasters.
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A.
HMS Bellipotent
HMS Bellipotent is the fictional British warship that serves as the primary naval setting in Herman Melville’s novella "Billy Budd, Sailor."
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B.
HMS Serapis
HMS Serapis was a British Royal Navy warship best known for its capture by John Paul Jones’s Bonhomme Richard during a fierce 1779 naval battle off Flamborough Head in the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
HMS Sirius
HMS Sirius was the Royal Navy warship that served as the flagship of the First Fleet, leading the establishment of the first British colony in Australia in 1788.
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D.
HMS Unicorn
HMS Unicorn is a Royal Navy Upholder-class diesel-electric attack submarine that served as one of the last conventional submarines built for the United Kingdom before the fleet transitioned to nuclear-powered boats.
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E.
HMS Briton
HMS Briton was a 19th-century Royal Navy warship best known for rediscovering the Bounty mutineers’ community on Pitcairn Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.