warship Michael
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Warship Michael was a massive early 16th-century Scottish warship, famed as one of the largest and most heavily armed vessels of its time.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| warship Michael canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5590335 — 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: warship Michael Context triple: [James IV of Scotland, commissioned, warship Michael]
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A.
Brig
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B.
Victory ships
Victory ships were a class of faster, more durable American cargo vessels built during World War II to replace Liberty ships and support Allied logistics.
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C.
Longships
Longships is a small group of rocky islets off Land’s End in Cornwall, England, best known for the Longships Lighthouse that warns ships of the hazardous waters there.
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D.
Viking Flagship
Viking Flagship was a top-class British National Hunt racehorse best known as a dual Queen Mother Champion Chase winner in the 1990s.
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E.
High Seas Fleet
The High Seas Fleet was the main battle fleet of the Imperial German Navy during World War I, best known for its clashes with the British Royal Navy, including the Battle of Jutland.
- 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: warship Michael Target entity description: Warship Michael was a massive early 16th-century Scottish warship, famed as one of the largest and most heavily armed vessels of its time.
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A.
Brig
Brig is a historic Swiss town in the canton of Valais, known as a regional transport hub and gateway to the surrounding Alpine passes.
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B.
Victory ships
Victory ships were a class of faster, more durable American cargo vessels built during World War II to replace Liberty ships and support Allied logistics.
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C.
Longships
Longships is a small group of rocky islets off Land’s End in Cornwall, England, best known for the Longships Lighthouse that warns ships of the hazardous waters there.
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D.
Viking Flagship
Viking Flagship was a top-class British National Hunt racehorse best known as a dual Queen Mother Champion Chase winner in the 1990s.
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E.
High Seas Fleet
The High Seas Fleet was the main battle fleet of the Imperial German Navy during World War I, best known for its clashes with the British Royal Navy, including the Battle of Jutland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
16th-century ship
ⓘ
sailing ship ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Great Michael
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| armament |
broadside guns
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forecastle guns ⓘ heavy artillery ⓘ stern guns ⓘ |
| builder | Kingdom of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtAt |
Firth of Forth
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Newhaven, near Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtFor | James IV of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
16th-century naval ships of Scotland
ⓘ
Age of Sail warships of Scotland ⓘ Ships built in Scotland ⓘ Ships of the Royal Scots Navy ⓘ |
| commissionedInService | 1511 ⓘ |
| completedIn | 1511 ⓘ |
| constructionMaterial | oak ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Kingdom of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewComplement | over 1000 men ⓘ |
| designedAs | symbol of Scottish naval power ⓘ |
| era | early 16th century ⓘ |
| fate | probably broken up in France ⓘ |
| historicalContext | reign of James IV of Scotland ⓘ |
| influenced | development of large European warships ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1507 ⓘ |
| laterOperator | French Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launched | 1511 ⓘ |
| lengthEstimate | over 70 metres ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Archangel Michael NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navalTechnologyContext | early gun-armed sailing warships ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the largest warships of its time
ⓘ
being one of the most heavily armed ships of its time ⓘ |
| numberOfGunsEstimate | over 100 guns ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Scots Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Anglo-Scottish naval rivalry ⓘ |
| patron | James IV of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propulsion | sail ⓘ |
| shipType |
great ship
ⓘ
man-of-war ⓘ |
| soldAroundYear | 1514 ⓘ |
| soldTo | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tonnage | about 1000 tons burthen ⓘ |
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: warship Michael Description of subject: Warship Michael was a massive early 16th-century Scottish warship, famed as one of the largest and most heavily armed vessels of its time.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
James IV of Scotland