SMS König

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SMS König was a German Kaiser-class battleship that served as the lead ship of her class in the Imperial German Navy during World War I, notably participating in the Battle of Jutland.

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Label Occurrences
SMS König canonical 3

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf battleship
capital ship
warship
armament 10 × 30.5 cm SK L/50 guns
14 × 15 cm SK L/45 guns
5 × 50 cm torpedo tubes
6 × 8.8 cm guns
armorBelt up to 350 mm
armorDeck up to 100 mm
battleLineRole flagship of III Battle Squadron (at times)
beam 29.5 m
class König-class battleship
commissionedOn 1914-08-09
conflict World War I
countryOfOrigin German Empire
crewComplement ~1,100 officers and men
designEra Dreadnought era
displacement ~25000 tonnes (standard)
~28000 tonnes (full load)
draft 9.2 m
fate interned at Scapa Flow
finalStatus wreck on seabed of Scapa Flow
JutlandDamage sustained multiple heavy-caliber hits
JutlandOutcome returned to port despite damage
laidDownOn 1911-10-03
launchedOn 1913-03-01
leadShipOfClass König-class battleship
length 175.4 m
maximumSpeed 21 knots
namedAfter German word for "King"
navalArchitectureFeature centerline main battery arrangement
navalFleet High Seas Fleet
notableEngagement led König-class division at Battle of Jutland
operator Imperial German Navy
participatedIn Battle of Jutland
Battle of the Gulf of Riga
Operation Albion
precededByClass Kaiser-class battleship
propulsion coal-fired boilers
steam turbines
salvageHistory partially salvaged in 1960s–1970s
scuttledOn 1919-06-21
scuttlingLocation Scapa Flow
surface form: Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands
shipyard Wilhelmshaven Imperial Shipyard
sisterShip SMS Grosser Kurfürst
SMS Kronprinz
SMS Markgraf
succeededByClass Bayern-class battleship

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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: SMS König
Description of subject: SMS König was a German Kaiser-class battleship that served as the lead ship of her class in the Imperial German Navy during World War I, notably participating in the Battle of Jutland.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Imperial German Navy notableShip SMS König
German battleship SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm sisterShipOf SMS König
subject surface form: SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm
German battleship SMS Markgraf sisterShip SMS König
subject surface form: SMS Markgraf