HMS Lion
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HMS Lion was a British Royal Navy battlecruiser of the early 20th century that served as a flagship and saw major action during World War I, including at the Battle of Jutland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Lion canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3291847 — 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 Lion Context triple: [HMS Queen Mary, precededBy, HMS Lion]
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A.
HMS Agincourt
HMS Agincourt is a Royal Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Astute class, designed for stealthy intelligence gathering, anti-ship and anti-submarine warfare, and precision land-attack missions.
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B.
HMS Goliath
HMS Goliath was a British Royal Navy ship of the line that played a significant role in Admiral Nelson’s victory over the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.
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C.
HMS Glorious
HMS Glorious was a British Royal Navy aircraft carrier, originally built as a battlecruiser, that served during the interwar period and early World War II before being sunk in 1940.
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D.
HMS Indefatigable
HMS Indefatigable was a British battlecruiser of the early 20th century Royal Navy, best known for her catastrophic loss during the First World War.
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E.
HMS Ajax
HMS Ajax was a British Leander-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that gained fame for its role in early World War II naval actions, particularly in the South Atlantic.
- 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 Lion Target entity description: HMS Lion was a British Royal Navy battlecruiser of the early 20th century that served as a flagship and saw major action during World War I, including at the Battle of Jutland.
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A.
HMS Agincourt
HMS Agincourt is a Royal Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Astute class, designed for stealthy intelligence gathering, anti-ship and anti-submarine warfare, and precision land-attack missions.
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B.
HMS Goliath
HMS Goliath was a British Royal Navy ship of the line that played a significant role in Admiral Nelson’s victory over the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.
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C.
HMS Glorious
HMS Glorious was a British Royal Navy aircraft carrier, originally built as a battlecruiser, that served during the interwar period and early World War II before being sunk in 1940.
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D.
HMS Indefatigable
HMS Indefatigable was a British battlecruiser of the early 20th century Royal Navy, best known for her catastrophic loss during the First World War.
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E.
HMS Ajax
HMS Ajax was a British Leander-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that gained fame for its role in early World War II naval actions, particularly in the South Atlantic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy warship
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battlecruiser ⓘ |
| armament |
16 × 4-inch (102 mm) guns
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2 × 21-inch (533 mm) submerged torpedo tubes ⓘ 8 × 13.5-inch (343 mm) guns in 4 twin turrets ⓘ |
| armour |
belt 4–9 inches (102–229 mm)
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conning tower 10 inches (254 mm) ⓘ deck 1–2.5 inches (25–64 mm) ⓘ turrets up to 9 inches (229 mm) ⓘ |
| battle |
Battle of Dogger Bank
NERFINISHED
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Battle of Heligoland Bight NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Jutland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| beam | 88 ft 6 in (27.0 m) ⓘ |
| builder | Devonport Dockyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1912-06 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War I ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crew |
about 997 officers and men
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up to about 1269 in wartime ⓘ |
| damagedIn |
Battle of Dogger Bank
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Jutland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 1924 ⓘ |
| designPurpose | fast capital ship for North Sea operations ⓘ |
| displacement |
26270 long tons (standard)
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30500 long tons (deep load) ⓘ |
| draught | 32 ft 5 in (9.9 m) ⓘ |
| fate | sold for scrap ⓘ |
| flagshipOf | Vice Admiral David Beatty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Queen Mary (as improved design) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homePort | Rosyth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1909-11-29 ⓘ |
| launched | 1910-08-06 ⓘ |
| length | 700 ft (213.4 m) ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | 27 knots ⓘ |
| namesake | lion ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Q turret magazine nearly exploded at Jutland but was flooded in time ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| pennantNumber | not routinely used (pre-1920s capital ship) ⓘ |
| powerOutput | 70000 shp (design) ⓘ |
| precededBy | Indefatigable-class battlecruiser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propulsion |
42 water-tube boilers
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steam turbines ⓘ |
| range | 5610 nmi at 10 knots ⓘ |
| roleAtJutland | flagship of the Battlecruiser Fleet ⓘ |
| scrapped | 1924 ⓘ |
| serviceEntryPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| shipClass | Lion-class battlecruiser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| squadron | 1st Battlecruiser Squadron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Lion Description of subject: HMS Lion was a British Royal Navy battlecruiser of the early 20th century that served as a flagship and saw major action during World War I, including at the Battle of Jutland.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.