HMS Temeraire
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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."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HMS Temeraire canonical | 6 |
| HMS Temeraire, a Royal Navy warship | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1118372 — 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 Temeraire Context triple: [Battle of Trafalgar, hasShipInvolved, HMS Temeraire]
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A.
HMS Ivanhoe
HMS Ivanhoe was a British Royal Navy I-class destroyer that served during the early years of World War II, notably participating in operations such as the Altmark Incident.
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B.
HMS Drake
HMS Drake was a British Royal Navy warship that served during the Age of Sail and was notable enough to be captured and taken into service by the United States as USS Ranger.
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C.
HMS Drake
HMS Drake was a British armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy, launched in the early 20th century and serving prominently before and during World War I.
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D.
HMS Victory
HMS Victory is a historic Royal Navy warship best known as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar and now preserved as a museum ship in Portsmouth, England.
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E.
HMS Resolution
HMS Resolution was a British Royal Navy exploration vessel best known for serving as Captain James Cook’s flagship on his second and third Pacific voyages in the 1770s.
- 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 Temeraire Target entity description: 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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A.
HMS Ivanhoe
HMS Ivanhoe was a British Royal Navy I-class destroyer that served during the early years of World War II, notably participating in operations such as the Altmark Incident.
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B.
HMS Drake
HMS Drake was a British armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy, launched in the early 20th century and serving prominently before and during World War I.
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C.
HMS Drake
HMS Drake was a British Royal Navy warship that served during the Age of Sail and was notable enough to be captured and taken into service by the United States as USS Ranger.
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D.
HMS Victory
HMS Victory is a historic Royal Navy warship best known as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar and now preserved as a museum ship in Portsmouth, England.
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E.
HMS Resolution
HMS Resolution was a British Royal Navy exploration vessel best known for serving as Captain James Cook’s flagship on his second and third Pacific voyages in the 1770s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy warship
ⓘ
ship of the line ⓘ |
| armamentType | smoothbore muzzle-loading cannon ⓘ |
| associatedEvent | death of Admiral Horatio Nelson at Trafalgar ⓘ |
| associatedWith | HMS Victory ⓘ |
| battle |
Battle of Cape Finisterre (1805)
ⓘ
Battle of Copenhagen ⓘ
surface form:
Battle of Copenhagen (1801)
Battle of Trafalgar ⓘ |
| beam | approximately 50 feet ⓘ |
| brokenUpAt |
Rotherhithe, London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
Rotherhithe on the River Thames
|
| builder | Chatham Dockyard ⓘ |
| captain |
Eliab Harvey
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Eliab Harvey at the Battle of Trafalgar ⓘ |
| capturedShip |
French ship Fougueux at Trafalgar
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French ship Redoutable at Trafalgar ⓘ |
| commissionedInNavy | 1799 ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crewComplement | approximately 700 men ⓘ |
| decommissioned | early 19th century ⓘ |
| depictedBy | J. M. W. Turner ⓘ |
| depictedIn |
The Fighting Temeraire
ⓘ
surface form:
"The Fighting Temeraire"
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| depictionDate | 1838 (subject of Turner painting) ⓘ |
| era | Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| fate | sold for breaking up ⓘ |
| flagshipOf | Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Graves (at Copenhagen) ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | icon of British naval history ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1798 ⓘ |
| launchPlace |
Chatham, Kent
ⓘ
surface form:
Chatham, Kent, England
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| length | approximately 185 feet (gun deck) ⓘ |
| material | wooden hull ⓘ |
| namedAfter | French ship Téméraire ⓘ |
| navalTheatre |
Napoleonic Wars
ⓘ
War of the Second Coalition ⓘ |
| nickname | The Fighting Temeraire ⓘ |
| notableFor |
appearance in the painting "The Fighting Temeraire"
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role at the Battle of Trafalgar ⓘ |
| numberOfGuns | 98 ⓘ |
| paintingCompletionDate | 1839 ⓘ |
| paintingExhibited |
Royal Academy of Arts
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surface form:
Royal Academy of Arts, London
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| propulsion | sail ⓘ |
| roleAtTrafalgar |
engaged multiple French and Spanish ships
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sailed immediately astern of HMS Victory in the weather column ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| shipRate | second-rate ship of the line ⓘ |
| soldForBreakingUp | 1838 ⓘ |
| symbolismInArt |
decline of the age of sail
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transition to steam power ⓘ |
| tonnage | approximately 2,100 tons burthen ⓘ |
| towedBy | steam tug in Turner’s painting ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: HMS Temeraire Description of subject: 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."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
HMS Temeraire, a Royal Navy warship