HMS Elephant
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HMS Elephant was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Elephant canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3124623 — 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 Elephant Context triple: [Thomas Foley, shipCommanded, HMS Elephant]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
HMS Minotaur
HMS Minotaur was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for her distinguished service in major late 18th-century naval battles against France, including the Battle of the Nile.
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D.
HMS Bellerophon
HMS Bellerophon was a British Royal Navy ship of the line famed for her prominent role in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including the surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard her in 1815.
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E.
HMS Venerable
HMS Venerable was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy that served prominently during the French Revolutionary Wars under Admiral Adam Duncan.
- 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 Elephant Target entity description: HMS Elephant was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
HMS Minotaur
HMS Minotaur was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for her distinguished service in major late 18th-century naval battles against France, including the Battle of the Nile.
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D.
HMS Bellerophon
HMS Bellerophon was a British Royal Navy ship of the line famed for her prominent role in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including the surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard her in 1815.
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E.
HMS Venerable
HMS Venerable was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy that served prominently during the French Revolutionary Wars under Admiral Adam Duncan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy warship
ⓘ
ship of the line ⓘ |
| admiralOnBoard | Horatio Nelson ⓘ |
| associatedNavy | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| associatedPerson | Horatio Nelson ⓘ |
| battleHonour | Copenhagen 1801 ⓘ |
| conflict |
French Revolutionary Wars
ⓘ
Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| era | Age of Sail ⓘ |
| flagshipAt | Battle of Copenhagen ⓘ |
| flagshipOf | Horatio Nelson ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| namedAfter | elephant ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| navalBattle | Battle of Copenhagen ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Battle of Copenhagen ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as Nelson’s flagship at Copenhagen ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| roleAtBattleOfCopenhagen | flagship ⓘ |
| service |
Royal Navy
ⓘ
surface form:
British Royal Navy
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| serviceBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| shipType | ship of the line ⓘ |
| usedBy | Horatio Nelson ⓘ |
| yearOfBattleOfCopenhagen | 1801 ⓘ |
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 Elephant Description of subject: HMS Elephant was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.