HMS Rodney

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Royal Navy warship battleship

HMS Rodney was a British Royal Navy battleship of the Nelson class that served prominently during World War II, including in major Atlantic and Mediterranean operations and the destruction of the German battleship Bismarck.

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Label Occurrences
HMS Rodney canonical 9

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Royal Navy warship ⓘ
battleship ⓘ
armamentAA 2-pounder "pom-pom" guns ⓘ
20 mm Oerlikon guns ⓘ
4.7-inch guns ⓘ
armamentMain 9 × 16-inch (406 mm) guns in three triple turrets ⓘ
armamentSecondary 12 × 6-inch (152 mm) guns ⓘ
armourBelt up to 14 inches ⓘ
armourDeck up to 6.25 inches ⓘ
armourTurrets up to 16 inches ⓘ
beam 106 ft ⓘ
builder Cammell Laird ⓘ
commissioned 1927-11-10 ⓘ
conflict World War II ⓘ
country United Kingdom ⓘ
crewComplement approximately 1300 ⓘ
decommissioned 1946 ⓘ
displacementFullLoad 38000 long tons ⓘ
displacementStandard 33900 long tons ⓘ
draught 30 ft ⓘ
era World War II ⓘ
interwar period ⓘ
fate sold for scrap ⓘ
laidDown 1922-12-28 ⓘ
launched 1925-12-17 ⓘ
lengthOverall 710 ft ⓘ
maximumSpeed 23 knots ⓘ
namedAfter Admiral George Brydges Rodney ⓘ
notableFeature all main turrets mounted forward of the superstructure ⓘ
designed under Washington Naval Treaty limitations ⓘ
operator Royal Navy ⓘ
participatedIn Allied landings in North Africa ⓘ
Battle of the Atlantic ⓘ
Battle of Normandy ⓘ
surface form: Normandy landings

Operation Torch ⓘ
Allied invasion of Sicily ⓘ
surface form: Sicily landings

hunt for Bismarck ⓘ
sinking of the German battleship Bismarck ⓘ
pennantNumber 29 ⓘ
powerOutput 45000 shp ⓘ
precededBy Revenge-class battleship ⓘ
propulsion 8 Admiralty 3-drum boilers ⓘ
steam turbines ⓘ
range 7000 nautical miles at 16 knots ⓘ
roleInBismarckAction delivered heavy gunfire that crippled Bismarck ⓘ
scrapped 1948 ⓘ
shipClass Nelson-class battleship ⓘ
shipyard Cammell Laird shipyard, Birkenhead ⓘ
surface form: Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
sisterShip HMS Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ
theatre Atlantic Ocean ⓘ
Mediterranean Sea ⓘ

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 Rodney
Description of subject: HMS Rodney was a British Royal Navy battleship of the Nelson class that served prominently during World War II, including in major Atlantic and Mediterranean operations and the destruction of the German battleship Bismarck.

Referenced by (9)

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

Operation Pedestal → notableShip → HMS Rodney ⓘ
Operation Rheinübung → involvesShip → HMS Rodney ⓘ
Bismarck → engagedBy → HMS Rodney ⓘ
Cammell Laird → built → HMS Rodney ⓘ
Royal Navy battleships → notableExample → HMS Rodney ⓘ
Pedestal Convoy → includedShip → HMS Rodney ⓘ
Convoy WS 21S → includedShip → HMS Rodney ⓘ
HMS Nelson (damaged by torpedo) → sisterShip → HMS Rodney ⓘ
subject surface form: HMS Nelson
battleship HMS Nelson → sisterShip → HMS Rodney ⓘ
subject surface form: HMS Nelson