Fleet Base West
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Fleet Base West is a major Royal Australian Navy installation in Western Australia that serves as the primary home port for the nation’s submarine fleet and other key naval units.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fleet Base West canonical | 3 |
| Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1352883 — 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: Fleet Base West Context triple: [Royal Australian Navy, notableBase, Fleet Base West]
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A.
Fleet Base East
Fleet Base East is a major Royal Australian Navy maritime base located in Sydney, serving as a primary home port and operational hub for much of Australia’s naval fleet.
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B.
Naval Air Station North Island
Naval Air Station North Island is a major U.S. Navy aircraft carrier base and aviation facility located on the north end of Coronado Island in San Diego, California.
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C.
RAAF Base Williamtown
RAAF Base Williamtown is a major Royal Australian Air Force installation in New South Wales that serves as the country’s primary fighter base and home to its frontline combat aircraft.
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D.
RAAF Base Edinburgh
RAAF Base Edinburgh is a major Royal Australian Air Force installation in South Australia, best known as a hub for maritime patrol, surveillance, and intelligence operations.
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E.
RAAF Base Townsville
RAAF Base Townsville is a major Royal Australian Air Force installation in northern Queensland that supports air operations, training, and regional defence activities.
- 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: Fleet Base West Target entity description: Fleet Base West is a major Royal Australian Navy installation in Western Australia that serves as the primary home port for the nation’s submarine fleet and other key naval units.
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A.
Fleet Base East
Fleet Base East is a major Royal Australian Navy maritime base located in Sydney, serving as a primary home port and operational hub for much of Australia’s naval fleet.
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B.
Naval Air Station North Island
Naval Air Station North Island is a major U.S. Navy aircraft carrier base and aviation facility located on the north end of Coronado Island in San Diego, California.
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C.
RAAF Base Williamtown
RAAF Base Williamtown is a major Royal Australian Air Force installation in New South Wales that serves as the country’s primary fighter base and home to its frontline combat aircraft.
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D.
RAAF Base Edinburgh
RAAF Base Edinburgh is a major Royal Australian Air Force installation in South Australia, best known as a hub for maritime patrol, surveillance, and intelligence operations.
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E.
RAAF Base Townsville
RAAF Base Townsville is a major Royal Australian Air Force installation in northern Queensland that supports air operations, training, and regional defence activities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Australian Navy base
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naval base ⓘ |
| branch | Royal Australian Navy ⓘ |
| contains | HMAS Stirling ⓘ |
| counterpart | Fleet Base East ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| hasAccessTo | Cockburn Sound ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
logistics and supply depots
ⓘ
naval wharves and berths ⓘ submarine maintenance facilities ⓘ training and accommodation facilities ⓘ |
| hasGarrison | HMAS Stirling ⓘ |
| hasRole |
home port for Royal Australian Navy submarine fleet
ⓘ
logistics support hub ⓘ maintenance and repair facility ⓘ major fleet base ⓘ support base for surface combatants ⓘ training location for naval personnel ⓘ |
| isOneOf | two main fleet bases of the Royal Australian Navy ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Perth
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surface form:
Perth, Western Australia
Rockingham, Western Australia ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Garden Island
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surface form:
Garden Island, Western Australia
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| location | Western Australia ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Australian Navy ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Australian Navy ⓘ |
| partOf |
Australian Defence Force
ⓘ
Royal Australian Navy ⓘ |
| primarySubmarineClassSupported | Collins-class submarine ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Indian Ocean
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Western Australia ⓘ |
| servesAs |
home port for HMAS Collins-class submarines
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primary home port for Royal Australian Navy submarines ⓘ |
| strategicImportance |
key element of Australia’s maritime security posture
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primary base for Australian naval operations in the Indian Ocean ⓘ |
| timezone | Australian Western Standard Time ⓘ |
| usedFor |
fleet support
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maintenance and refit of naval vessels ⓘ naval training ⓘ submarine operations ⓘ surface ship operations ⓘ |
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: Fleet Base West Description of subject: Fleet Base West is a major Royal Australian Navy installation in Western Australia that serves as the primary home port for the nation’s submarine fleet and other key naval units.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Royal Australian Navy
this entity surface form:
Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt