HMS Essex
E403081
HMS Essex is a fictional British naval warship featured in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise as the vessel commanded by the pirate-turned-privateer Hector Barbossa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Essex canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3066918 — 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 Essex Context triple: [Hector Barbossa, commandsShip, HMS Essex]
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A.
HMS Providence
HMS Providence is a British Royal Navy ship featured in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series as the vessel commanded by Captain Hector Barbossa.
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B.
HMS Cossack
HMS Cossack was a British Royal Navy destroyer best known for its daring 1940 boarding of the German tanker Altmark in Norwegian waters to free hundreds of Allied prisoners.
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C.
HMS Levant
HMS Levant was a British Royal Navy warship of the Age of Sail, best known as one of the vessels captured by the American frigate USS Constitution during the War of 1812.
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D.
HMS Captain
HMS Captain was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line in the Royal Navy, notable for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797.
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E.
HMS Eskimo
HMS Eskimo was a Royal Navy destroyer that saw extensive service during the Second World War, including major operations in the Arctic, Mediterranean, and Normandy landings.
- 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 Essex Target entity description: HMS Essex is a fictional British naval warship featured in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise as the vessel commanded by the pirate-turned-privateer Hector Barbossa.
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A.
HMS Providence
HMS Providence is a British Royal Navy ship featured in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series as the vessel commanded by Captain Hector Barbossa.
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B.
HMS Cossack
HMS Cossack was a British Royal Navy destroyer best known for its daring 1940 boarding of the German tanker Altmark in Norwegian waters to free hundreds of Allied prisoners.
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C.
HMS Levant
HMS Levant was a British Royal Navy warship of the Age of Sail, best known as one of the vessels captured by the American frigate USS Constitution during the War of 1812.
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D.
HMS Captain
HMS Captain was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line in the Royal Navy, notable for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797.
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E.
HMS Eskimo
HMS Eskimo was a Royal Navy destroyer that saw extensive service during the Second World War, including major operations in the Arctic, Mediterranean, and Normandy landings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional entity
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fictional ship ⓘ fictional warship ⓘ |
| affiliation | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ⓘ |
| basedOn | Age of Sail warship ⓘ |
| captain | Hector Barbossa ⓘ |
| commander | Hector Barbossa ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| faction | British Crown ⓘ |
| franchise | Pirates of the Caribbean ⓘ |
| genre | fantasy adventure ⓘ |
| hasType |
man-of-war
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sailing ship ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | ship of Hector Barbossa as a privateer ⓘ |
| opposes | pirates of the Caribbean setting ⓘ |
| partOf |
Pirates of the Caribbean
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surface form:
Pirates of the Caribbean film series
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| portrayedAs | ship authorized by the British Crown ⓘ |
| role |
British naval warship
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privateer vessel ⓘ |
| setting | Caribbean Sea ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Age of Sail ⓘ |
| universe |
Pirates of the Caribbean
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surface form:
Pirates of the Caribbean franchise
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| usedBy |
Royal Navy
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surface form:
British Royal Navy
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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 Essex Description of subject: HMS Essex is a fictional British naval warship featured in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise as the vessel commanded by the pirate-turned-privateer Hector Barbossa.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hector Barbossa