Blohm & Voss shipyard, Hamburg
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Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg is a historic German shipbuilding and engineering company renowned for constructing major naval vessels and innovative commercial ships since the late 19th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blohm & Voss shipyard, Hamburg canonical | 4 |
| Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3291948 — 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: Blohm & Voss shipyard, Hamburg Context triple: [SMS Seydlitz, constructionSite, Blohm & Voss shipyard, Hamburg]
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A.
Reichsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven
Reichsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven was a major German naval shipyard that constructed warships for the Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine, including notable vessels such as the heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee.
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B.
Germaniawerft
Germaniawerft was a major German shipbuilding company and naval shipyard in Kiel, known for constructing warships for the Imperial German Navy and later the Kriegsmarine.
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C.
Deutsche Werke Kiel
Deutsche Werke Kiel was a major German shipbuilding company and naval dockyard in Kiel that constructed warships for the Kriegsmarine and earlier German fleets.
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D.
Deutsche Werft AG
Deutsche Werft AG was a German shipbuilding company based in Hamburg, known for constructing naval vessels and submarines, particularly during the World War II era.
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E.
Deutsche Werke shipyard, Kiel
Deutsche Werke shipyard in Kiel was a major German naval shipbuilding facility that constructed several significant warships for the Kriegsmarine, including the battleship Gneisenau.
- 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: Blohm & Voss shipyard, Hamburg Target entity description: Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg is a historic German shipbuilding and engineering company renowned for constructing major naval vessels and innovative commercial ships since the late 19th century.
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A.
Reichsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven
Reichsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven was a major German naval shipyard that constructed warships for the Reichsmarine and Kriegsmarine, including notable vessels such as the heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee.
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B.
Germaniawerft
Germaniawerft was a major German shipbuilding company and naval shipyard in Kiel, known for constructing warships for the Imperial German Navy and later the Kriegsmarine.
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C.
Deutsche Werke Kiel
Deutsche Werke Kiel was a major German shipbuilding company and naval dockyard in Kiel that constructed warships for the Kriegsmarine and earlier German fleets.
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D.
Deutsche Werft AG
Deutsche Werft AG was a German shipbuilding company based in Hamburg, known for constructing naval vessels and submarines, particularly during the World War II era.
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E.
Deutsche Werke shipyard, Kiel
Deutsche Werke shipyard in Kiel was a major German naval shipbuilding facility that constructed several significant warships for the Kriegsmarine, including the battleship Gneisenau.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
engineering company
ⓘ
shipbuilding company ⓘ shipyard ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| employs |
marine engineers
ⓘ
naval architects ⓘ shipbuilders ⓘ skilled tradespeople ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Ernst Voss
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hermann Blohm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClient |
German Navy
ⓘ
international commercial shipping companies ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
dry docks
ⓘ
engineering workshops ⓘ floating docks ⓘ outfitting quays ⓘ |
| hasHeritage |
German industrial history
ⓘ
maritime engineering tradition ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | founders' surnames Blohm and Voss ⓘ |
| hasReputationFor |
complex naval projects
ⓘ
high-quality engineering ⓘ |
| historic | true ⓘ |
| inception | 1877 ⓘ |
| industry |
marine engineering
ⓘ
shipbuilding ⓘ |
| knownFor |
construction of cargo ships
ⓘ
construction of large naval vessels ⓘ construction of offshore vessels ⓘ construction of passenger ships ⓘ construction of tankers ⓘ innovative ship designs ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hamburg
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Port of Hamburg ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Elbe
ⓘ
surface form:
River Elbe
|
| notableFor |
commercial shipbuilding
ⓘ
naval shipbuilding ⓘ offshore engineering ⓘ ship repair ⓘ |
| operatesInSector |
civilian shipping
ⓘ
defense ⓘ |
| operationalSince | late 19th century ⓘ |
| partOf | German shipbuilding industry ⓘ |
| region | Northern Germany ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
newbuildings
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ship conversions ⓘ ship modernization ⓘ ship repair and maintenance ⓘ |
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: Blohm & Voss shipyard, Hamburg Description of subject: Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg is a historic German shipbuilding and engineering company renowned for constructing major naval vessels and innovative commercial ships since the late 19th century.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Admiral Hipper
this entity surface form:
Blohm & Voss, Hamburg