SMS Gneisenau
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SMS Gneisenau was a German armored cruiser of the Scharnhorst class that served in the Imperial German Navy and was sunk during World War I at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SMS Gneisenau canonical | 7 |
| SMS Gneisenau sunk | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2144676 — 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: SMS Gneisenau Context triple: [Imperial German Navy, notableShip, SMS Gneisenau]
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German battleship Gneisenau
The German battleship Gneisenau was a World War II Kriegsmarine capital ship of the Scharnhorst class that conducted Atlantic raiding operations against Allied shipping.
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B.
SMS Seydlitz
SMS Seydlitz was a German battlecruiser of the Imperial Navy, renowned for her resilience and heavy damage sustained while serving as a flagship during major World War I naval engagements.
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C.
Prince of Bismarck
Prince of Bismarck is a hereditary noble title in the German aristocracy historically associated with the statesman Otto von Bismarck and his descendants.
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D.
German battleship Schleswig-Holstein
The German battleship Schleswig-Holstein was a pre-dreadnought warship of the Imperial German Navy, later used by Nazi Germany, best known for firing the opening shots of World War II during the attack on Westerplatte in 1939.
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E.
Tirpitz
Tirpitz was a German World War II battleship, sister ship to Bismarck, known for its powerful presence in Norwegian waters and the significant Allied efforts devoted to neutralizing it.
- 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: SMS Gneisenau Target entity description: SMS Gneisenau was a German armored cruiser of the Scharnhorst class that served in the Imperial German Navy and was sunk during World War I at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914.
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A.
German battleship Gneisenau
The German battleship Gneisenau was a World War II Kriegsmarine capital ship of the Scharnhorst class that conducted Atlantic raiding operations against Allied shipping.
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B.
SMS Seydlitz
SMS Seydlitz was a German battlecruiser of the Imperial Navy, renowned for her resilience and heavy damage sustained while serving as a flagship during major World War I naval engagements.
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C.
Prince of Bismarck
Prince of Bismarck is a hereditary noble title in the German aristocracy historically associated with the statesman Otto von Bismarck and his descendants.
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D.
German battleship Schleswig-Holstein
The German battleship Schleswig-Holstein was a pre-dreadnought warship of the Imperial German Navy, later used by Nazi Germany, best known for firing the opening shots of World War II during the attack on Westerplatte in 1939.
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E.
Tirpitz
Tirpitz was a German World War II battleship, sister ship to Bismarck, known for its powerful presence in Norwegian waters and the significant Allied efforts devoted to neutralizing it.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scharnhorst-class cruiser
ⓘ
armored cruiser ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| armament |
18 × 8.8 cm (3.5 in) SK L/35 guns
ⓘ
4 × 45 cm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes ⓘ 6 × 15 cm (5.9 in) SK L/40 guns ⓘ 8 × 21 cm (8.3 in) SK L/40 guns ⓘ |
| armor |
belt armor up to 150 mm
ⓘ
deck armor up to 60 mm ⓘ |
| battle | Battle of the Falkland Islands ⓘ |
| beam | approximately 21.6 meters ⓘ |
| builder | AG Weser ⓘ |
| causeOfLoss | gunfire from British battlecruisers ⓘ |
| class |
German battleship Scharnhorst
ⓘ
surface form:
Scharnhorst class
|
| commandedBy |
Maximilian von Spee
ⓘ
surface form:
Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee (as squadron flagship’s consort)
|
| commissioned | 1908-03-06 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War I ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | German Empire ⓘ |
| crewComplement | approximately 764 officers and men ⓘ |
| dateOfBattle |
Battle of Coronel
ⓘ
surface form:
Battle of Coronel, 1914-11-01
|
| dateOfSinking | 1914-12-08 ⓘ |
| displacement | approximately 11,600 tons (standard) ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| fate | sunk in battle ⓘ |
| hullNumber | not applicable (no formal hull number used) ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1904-12-28 ⓘ |
| launched | 1906-06-14 ⓘ |
| length | approximately 144.6 meters ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
August Neidhardt von Gneisenau
ⓘ
surface form:
August von Gneisenau
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| navalFleet | East Asia Squadron ⓘ |
| navalTechnology | pre-dreadnought-era cruiser design ⓘ |
| notableOpponentShips |
HMS Inflexible
ⓘ
HMS Invincible ⓘ |
| operator | Imperial German Navy ⓘ |
| opposingForceAtFalklands | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Battle of Coronel ⓘ |
| placeOfConstruction | Bremen ⓘ |
| placeOfSinking | off the Falkland Islands ⓘ |
| propulsion |
coal-fired boilers
ⓘ
triple-expansion steam engines ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | pre–World War I period ⓘ |
| sisterShip | SMS Scharnhorst ⓘ |
| status | shipwreck ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
Pacific Ocean
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South Atlantic ⓘ
surface form:
South Atlantic Ocean
|
| topSpeed | approximately 22.5 knots ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Gneisenau Description of subject: SMS Gneisenau was a German armored cruiser of the Scharnhorst class that served in the Imperial German Navy and was sunk during World War I at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
SMS Gneisenau sunk