Duke (privateering ship)
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Duke was an early 18th-century English privateering ship best known for rescuing the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk, whose story inspired Daniel Defoe’s "Robinson Crusoe."
All labels observed (1)
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| Duke (privateering ship) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5664520 — 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: Duke (privateering ship) Context triple: [Alexander Selkirk, rescuedBy, Duke (privateering ship)]
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Queen Anne's Revenge
Queen Anne's Revenge is the fearsome pirate ship featured in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, notably captained by Hector Barbossa and previously associated with the legendary pirate Blackbeard.
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B.
Barataria privateers
The Barataria privateers were a group of Gulf Coast smugglers and corsairs based in the early 19th century near New Orleans, notorious for their illicit trade and later assistance to the United States during the War of 1812.
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C.
Sooner Schooner
The Sooner Schooner is a covered wagon pulled by ponies that serves as the University of Oklahoma’s iconic game-day mascot, symbolizing the state’s pioneer and land run heritage.
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D.
Princeton (warship)
Princeton (warship) was a pioneering mid-19th-century U.S. Navy screw steam warship notable as one of the first propeller-driven warships and for a deadly 1844 gun explosion incident.
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E.
Welcome (ship)
Welcome (ship) was the vessel that carried William Penn and other early Quaker settlers to Pennsylvania in 1682, playing a key role in the colony’s founding.
- 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: Duke (privateering ship) Target entity description: Duke was an early 18th-century English privateering ship best known for rescuing the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk, whose story inspired Daniel Defoe’s "Robinson Crusoe."
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A.
Queen Anne's Revenge
Queen Anne's Revenge is the fearsome pirate ship featured in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, notably captained by Hector Barbossa and previously associated with the legendary pirate Blackbeard.
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B.
Barataria privateers
The Barataria privateers were a group of Gulf Coast smugglers and corsairs based in the early 19th century near New Orleans, notorious for their illicit trade and later assistance to the United States during the War of 1812.
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C.
Sooner Schooner
The Sooner Schooner is a covered wagon pulled by ponies that serves as the University of Oklahoma’s iconic game-day mascot, symbolizing the state’s pioneer and land run heritage.
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D.
Princeton (warship)
Princeton (warship) was a pioneering mid-19th-century U.S. Navy screw steam warship notable as one of the first propeller-driven warships and for a deadly 1844 gun explosion incident.
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E.
Welcome (ship)
Welcome (ship) was the vessel that carried William Penn and other early Quaker settlers to Pennsylvania in 1682, playing a key role in the colony’s founding.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English ship
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privateering ship ⓘ |
| activity | capturing Spanish prizes ⓘ |
| approximateEra | Age of Sail ⓘ |
| armamentType | cannon ⓘ |
| associatedShip | Duchess (privateering ship) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| captain | Woodes Rogers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coCaptain | Stephen Courtney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commander | Woodes Rogers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| crewMemberRescued | Alexander Selkirk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| departurePort | Bristol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| departureYear | 1708 ⓘ |
| documentedBy | Woodes Rogers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| documentedIn | A Cruising Voyage Round the World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| event | rescue of Alexander Selkirk ⓘ |
| flag | British Red Ensign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalContext | War of the Spanish Succession NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homePort | Bristol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenceOn | castaway literature ⓘ |
| inspiredAuthor | Daniel Defoe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredWork | Robinson Crusoe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalStatus | letter of marque vessel ⓘ |
| literaryConnection |
Alexander Selkirk castaway narrative
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Robinson Crusoe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mission | privateering expedition against Spanish shipping ⓘ |
| navalRole | armed merchantman ⓘ |
| notableFor | rescuing Alexander Selkirk ⓘ |
| operatedBy | English privateers ⓘ |
| operatingTheatre |
Pacific Ocean
NERFINISHED
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South Seas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propulsion | sail ⓘ |
| rescueDate | 1709 ⓘ |
| rescuee | Alexander Selkirk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rescueLocation |
Juan Fernández Islands
NERFINISHED
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Más a Tierra (later renamed Robinson Crusoe Island) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sailedWith | Duchess (privateering ship) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| service | British privateering service ⓘ |
| shipType | sailing ship ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 18th century ⓘ |
| voyageType | privateering circumnavigation ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Duke (privateering ship) Description of subject: Duke was an early 18th-century English privateering ship best known for rescuing the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk, whose story inspired Daniel Defoe’s "Robinson Crusoe."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.