HMS Cardiff (D108)
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HMS Cardiff (D108) was a Royal Navy Type 42 guided-missile destroyer that saw notable service during the Falklands War and other late 20th-century operations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Cardiff (D108) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2344543 — 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 Cardiff (D108) Context triple: [Type 42 destroyer, notableShip, HMS Cardiff (D108)]
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A.
HMS Coventry (D118)
HMS Coventry (D118) was a British Royal Navy Type 42 destroyer best known for her service and sinking during the Falklands War in 1982.
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B.
HMS Glasgow (D88)
HMS Glasgow (D88) was a Royal Navy Type 42 guided-missile destroyer that served prominently during the Falklands War and Cold War era.
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C.
HMS Defender (D36)
HMS Defender (D36) is a Royal Navy air-defence destroyer commissioned in the early 2010s and equipped with advanced radar and missile systems for fleet protection and maritime security operations.
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D.
HMS Daring (D32)
HMS Daring (D32) is a Royal Navy air-defence destroyer that serves as the lead ship of the advanced Type 45 (Daring-class) guided missile destroyers.
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E.
HMS Dauntless (D33)
HMS Dauntless (D33) is a modern Royal Navy air-defence destroyer equipped with advanced radar and missile systems for fleet protection and maritime operations.
- 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 Cardiff (D108) Target entity description: HMS Cardiff (D108) was a Royal Navy Type 42 guided-missile destroyer that saw notable service during the Falklands War and other late 20th-century operations.
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A.
HMS Coventry (D118)
HMS Coventry (D118) was a British Royal Navy Type 42 destroyer best known for her service and sinking during the Falklands War in 1982.
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B.
HMS Glasgow (D88)
HMS Glasgow (D88) was a Royal Navy Type 42 guided-missile destroyer that served prominently during the Falklands War and Cold War era.
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C.
HMS Defender (D36)
HMS Defender (D36) is a Royal Navy air-defence destroyer commissioned in the early 2010s and equipped with advanced radar and missile systems for fleet protection and maritime security operations.
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D.
HMS Daring (D32)
HMS Daring (D32) is a Royal Navy air-defence destroyer that serves as the lead ship of the advanced Type 45 (Daring-class) guided missile destroyers.
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E.
HMS Dauntless (D33)
HMS Dauntless (D33) is a modern Royal Navy air-defence destroyer equipped with advanced radar and missile systems for fleet protection and maritime operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy destroyer
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Type 42 destroyer ⓘ guided-missile destroyer ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Cardiff
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surface form:
City of Cardiff
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| aircraftCarried |
Lynx helicopter
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surface form:
Westland Lynx helicopter
|
| armament |
4.5 inch Mark 8 naval gun
ⓘ
STWS torpedo tubes ⓘ Sea Dart surface-to-air missile system ⓘ Sea Wolf missile system (later refit) ⓘ |
| battleHonour |
Falkland Islands 1982
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Kuwait 1991 ⓘ |
| beam | 14.3 meters ⓘ |
| builder |
Barrow-in-Furness shipyard
ⓘ
Vickers-Armstrongs ⓘ
surface form:
Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd
|
| commissioned | 1979-09-24 ⓘ |
| conflict |
Bosnian War
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Falklands War ⓘ Gulf War ⓘ Kosovo War ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crewComplement | about 287 ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 2005-07-14 ⓘ |
| displacement | 4350 tons full load ⓘ |
| draught | 5.8 meters ⓘ |
| fate | scrapped ⓘ |
| flag | White Ensign ⓘ |
| homePort | Portsmouth ⓘ |
| IMOCategory | warship ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1972-11-08 ⓘ |
| launched | 1974-02-22 ⓘ |
| length | 125 meters ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | 30 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Cardiff
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capital of Wales ⓘ |
| navalEnsign | White Ensign ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
last Royal Navy ship to fire in anger during Falklands War
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provided naval gunfire support during Battle of Wireless Ridge ⓘ shot down Argentine Canberra bomber on 13 June 1982 ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| pennantNumber | D108 ⓘ |
| propulsion | COGOG gas turbine ⓘ |
| scrappedAt |
Aliağa
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surface form:
Aliaga, Turkey
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| scrappedYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| shipClass |
Type 42 destroyer
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surface form:
Sheffield-class destroyer
Type 42 destroyer ⓘ |
| successor | HMS Cardiff (Type 26 frigate) ⓘ |
| theatreOfOperations |
Adriatic Sea
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Persian Gulf ⓘ South Atlantic ⓘ
surface form:
South Atlantic Ocean
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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: HMS Cardiff (D108) Description of subject: HMS Cardiff (D108) was a Royal Navy Type 42 guided-missile destroyer that saw notable service during the Falklands War and other late 20th-century operations.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.