HMS Levant
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HMS Levant was a British Royal Navy warship of the Age of Sail, best known as one of the vessels captured by the American frigate USS Constitution during the War of 1812.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Levant canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1881405 — 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 Levant Context triple: [USS Constitution, victoryOver, HMS Levant]
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A.
HMS Bellerophon
HMS Bellerophon was a British Royal Navy ship of the line famed for her prominent role in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including the surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard her in 1815.
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B.
HMS Minotaur
HMS Minotaur was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for her distinguished service in major late 18th-century naval battles against France, including the Battle of the Nile.
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C.
HMS Namur
HMS Namur was a prominent 18th-century Royal Navy ship of the line that saw significant action in major naval engagements, including during the Seven Years' War.
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D.
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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E.
HMS Cossack
HMS Cossack was a British Royal Navy destroyer best known for its daring 1940 boarding of the German tanker Altmark in Norwegian waters to free hundreds of Allied prisoners.
- 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 Levant Target entity description: HMS Levant was a British Royal Navy warship of the Age of Sail, best known as one of the vessels captured by the American frigate USS Constitution during the War of 1812.
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A.
HMS Bellerophon
HMS Bellerophon was a British Royal Navy ship of the line famed for her prominent role in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including the surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard her in 1815.
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B.
HMS Minotaur
HMS Minotaur was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for her distinguished service in major late 18th-century naval battles against France, including the Battle of the Nile.
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C.
HMS Namur
HMS Namur was a prominent 18th-century Royal Navy ship of the line that saw significant action in major naval engagements, including during the Seven Years' War.
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D.
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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E.
HMS Cossack
HMS Cossack was a British Royal Navy destroyer best known for its daring 1940 boarding of the German tanker Altmark in Norwegian waters to free hundreds of Allied prisoners.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy warship
ⓘ
ship ⓘ sixth-rate frigate ⓘ |
| armament | 20 guns ⓘ |
| battle | Action of 20 February 1815 ⓘ |
| belligerent | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| capturedBy |
USS Constitution
ⓘ
United States Navy ⓘ |
| capturedIn | War of 1812 ⓘ |
| capturedOffCoastOf |
Madeira
ⓘ
surface form:
Madeira Islands
Portugal ⓘ |
| capturedTogetherWith | HMS Cyane ⓘ |
| conflict | War of 1812 ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| dateOfCapture | 1815-02-20 ⓘ |
| era | Age of Sail ⓘ |
| fate |
captured
ⓘ
recaptured by Royal Navy ⓘ |
| launchedInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Levant region
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surface form:
Levant
|
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| navalTheatre | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| notableFor | being captured by USS Constitution during the War of 1812 ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| opposedBelligerent | United States of America ⓘ |
| propulsion | sail ⓘ |
| rate | sixth rate ⓘ |
| recapturedBy |
British warships
ⓘ
Royal Navy ⓘ |
| recaptureLocation | off Madeira ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| shipType | post ship ⓘ |
| usedInWar | War of 1812 ⓘ |
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: HMS Levant Description of subject: HMS Levant was a British Royal Navy warship of the Age of Sail, best known as one of the vessels captured by the American frigate USS Constitution during the War of 1812.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.