Hercules
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Hercules is a historic steam-powered tugboat preserved as a museum ship in San Francisco, showcasing early 20th-century maritime industry and engineering.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hercules canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T415446 — 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: Hercules Context triple: [San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, hasShip, Hercules]
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A.
Heracles
Heracles is a legendary hero of Greek mythology renowned for his superhuman strength and his completion of the Twelve Labors.
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B.
Perseus
Perseus is a legendary Greek hero famed for slaying the Gorgon Medusa and rescuing Andromeda.
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C.
Achilles
Achilles is a legendary Greek hero of the Trojan War, famed for his near invincibility, martial prowess, and central role in Homer's Iliad.
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D.
Sterope
Sterope is a figure from Greek mythology, traditionally considered one of the Pleiades and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
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E.
Theseus
Theseus is a legendary hero of Greek mythology best known for slaying the Minotaur and serving as the mythical king and unifier of Athens.
- 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: Hercules Target entity description: Hercules is a historic steam-powered tugboat preserved as a museum ship in San Francisco, showcasing early 20th-century maritime industry and engineering.
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A.
Heracles
Heracles is a legendary hero of Greek mythology renowned for his superhuman strength and his completion of the Twelve Labors.
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B.
Perseus
Perseus is a legendary Greek hero famed for slaying the Gorgon Medusa and rescuing Andromeda.
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C.
Achilles
Achilles is a legendary Greek hero of the Trojan War, famed for his near invincibility, martial prowess, and central role in Homer's Iliad.
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D.
Sterope
Sterope is a figure from Greek mythology, traditionally considered one of the Pleiades and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
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E.
Theseus
Theseus is a legendary hero of Greek mythology best known for slaying the Minotaur and serving as the mythical king and unifier of Athens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic ship
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museum ship ⓘ steam-powered tugboat ⓘ |
| basedInHarbor |
Port of San Francisco
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surface form:
San Francisco waterfront
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| category |
museum ships in California
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steam tugs ⓘ tugboats of the United States ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt | San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park ⓘ |
| function | educational exhibit ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation |
National Historic Landmark
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National Historic Landmark ⓘ
surface form:
National Historic Landmark (United States)
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| locatedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
San Francisco ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Pacific Ocean
ⓘ
San Francisco Bay ⓘ |
| operator | National Park Service ⓘ |
| owner | National Park Service ⓘ |
| poweredBy | steam ⓘ |
| preservationStatus | preserved ⓘ |
| propulsionType | steam engine ⓘ |
| shipType | tugboat ⓘ |
| significance |
example of early 20th‑century marine engineering
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example of early 20th‑century maritime industry ⓘ |
| subjectOf | interpretive maritime history programs ⓘ |
| use |
harbor tug operations
ⓘ
maritime museum exhibit ⓘ ocean‑going towing ⓘ |
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: Hercules Description of subject: Hercules is a historic steam-powered tugboat preserved as a museum ship in San Francisco, showcasing early 20th-century maritime industry and engineering.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.