HMS Valiant
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HMS Valiant was a British Royal Navy nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the Valiant class that served during the Cold War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Valiant canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4205881 — 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 Valiant Context triple: [Dreadnought-class submarine, secondBoat, HMS Valiant]
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HMS Lion
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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B.
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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C.
HMS Irresistible
HMS Irresistible was a British pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy that served in the early 20th century and was lost during the Gallipoli campaign in World War I.
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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 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.
- 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 Valiant Target entity description: HMS Valiant was a British Royal Navy nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the Valiant class that served during the Cold War.
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A.
HMS Lion
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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B.
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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C.
HMS Irresistible
HMS Irresistible was a British pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy that served in the early 20th century and was lost during the Gallipoli campaign in World War I.
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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 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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy submarine
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Valiant-class submarine ⓘ nuclear-powered fleet submarine ⓘ |
| armament |
Mark 23 torpedoes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mark 8 torpedoes ⓘ Tigerfish torpedoes NERFINISHED ⓘ torpedo tubes ⓘ |
| beam | 9.8 metres ⓘ |
| builder | Vickers-Armstrongs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtAt | Barrow-in-Furness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category | Cold War submarines of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| classPrecededBy | Dreadnought class NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classSucceededBy | Churchill class NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1966-07-18 ⓘ |
| conflict | Cold War ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crewComplement | about 116 ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 1994-08-12 ⓘ |
| displacementSubmerged | 4900 long tons ⓘ |
| displacementSurfaced | 4000 long tons ⓘ |
| draught | 8.2 metres ⓘ |
| era | 20th century warship ⓘ |
| fate | awaiting dismantling ⓘ |
| homePort |
HMNB Devonport
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
HMNB Faslane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hullNumber | S102 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1959-01-21 ⓘ |
| launched | 1963-12-03 ⓘ |
| length | 86.9 metres ⓘ |
| namedAfter | HMS Valiant (1914 battleship) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | first fully British-designed nuclear-powered submarine class lead ship ⓘ |
| nuclearPowered | true ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| partOf | Valiant class NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| powerPlantType | pressurised-water reactor ⓘ |
| propulsion |
1 × pressurised-water reactor
ⓘ
2 × shafts ⓘ 2 × steam turbines ⓘ nuclear reactor ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Navy Submarine Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceEntryEra | Cold War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shipType | attack submarine ⓘ |
| speedSubmerged | >28 knots ⓘ |
| speedSurfaced | 20 knots ⓘ |
| status | decommissioned ⓘ |
| submarineClassLeadShip | true ⓘ |
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 Valiant Description of subject: HMS Valiant was a British Royal Navy nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the Valiant class that served during the Cold War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.