Nimrod
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Nimrod was the British Antarctic expedition ship used by Ernest Shackleton during his 1907–1909 attempt to reach the South Pole.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nimrod canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6647586 — 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: Nimrod Context triple: [Ernest Shackleton, shipCommanded, Nimrod]
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Nimrod
Nimrod is a 1997 studio album by American punk rock band Green Day, best known for its blend of punk energy with more experimental and melodic tracks.
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Nimrod
Nimrod is a musical artist known for performing the track "Walking Alone."
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Sumu-la-El
Sumu-la-El was an early Amorite king of Babylon known for consolidating and expanding the city-state into a significant regional power.
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Ziusudra
Ziusudra is a figure from ancient Mesopotamian mythology, often regarded as a Sumerian flood hero who survives a great deluge and attains immortality, paralleling later characters like Utnapishtim and Noah.
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Dhul-Qarnayn
Dhul-Qarnayn is a righteous and powerful figure mentioned in the Qur’an, often associated with a just ruler who traveled widely and built a barrier to contain Gog and Magog.
- 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: Nimrod Target entity description: Nimrod was the British Antarctic expedition ship used by Ernest Shackleton during his 1907–1909 attempt to reach the South Pole.
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A.
Nimrod
Nimrod is a 1997 studio album by American punk rock band Green Day, best known for its blend of punk energy with more experimental and melodic tracks.
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B.
Nimrod
Nimrod is a musical artist known for performing the track "Walking Alone."
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C.
Sumu-la-El
Sumu-la-El was an early Amorite king of Babylon known for consolidating and expanding the city-state into a significant regional power.
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D.
Ziusudra
Ziusudra is a figure from ancient Mesopotamian mythology, often regarded as a Sumerian flood hero who survives a great deluge and attains immortality, paralleling later characters like Utnapishtim and Noah.
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E.
Dhul-Qarnayn
Dhul-Qarnayn is a righteous and powerful figure mentioned in the Qur’an, often associated with a just ruler who traveled widely and built a barrier to contain Gog and Magog.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Antarctic expedition ship
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barque ⓘ ship ⓘ |
| achievement | enabled a then-farthest-south record by Shackleton's party ⓘ |
| builtFor | originally built as a sealing ship ⓘ |
| carriedPerson |
Aeneas Mackintosh
NERFINISHED
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Alistair Mackay NERFINISHED ⓘ Arthur Harbord NERFINISHED ⓘ Bernard Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Bertram Armytage NERFINISHED ⓘ Douglas Mawson NERFINISHED ⓘ Edgeworth David NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ Ernest Joyce NERFINISHED ⓘ Ernest Shackleton NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Wild NERFINISHED ⓘ George Buckley NERFINISHED ⓘ George Marston NERFINISHED ⓘ James Murray NERFINISHED ⓘ James Paton NERFINISHED ⓘ Jameson Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip Brocklehurst NERFINISHED ⓘ Raymond Priestley NERFINISHED ⓘ William Roberts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| destination |
Antarctica
NERFINISHED
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McMurdo Sound NERFINISHED ⓘ Ross Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| expeditionEndYear | 1909 ⓘ |
| expeditionLeader | Ernest Shackleton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| expeditionStartYear | 1907 ⓘ |
| flag | British flag ⓘ |
| homePort | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| material | wooden hull ⓘ |
| name | Nimrod NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
supported Shackleton's 1908–1909 march towards the South Pole
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transported the shore party of the Nimrod Expedition to Antarctica ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Ross Sea region
NERFINISHED
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Southern Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Ernest Shackleton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownerDuringExpedition | Ernest Shackleton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
British Antarctic Expedition 1907–1909
NERFINISHED
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Nimrod Expedition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propulsion |
auxiliary steam engine
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sail ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Antarctic exploration
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Ernest Shackleton's attempt to reach the South Pole ⓘ |
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: Nimrod Description of subject: Nimrod was the British Antarctic expedition ship used by Ernest Shackleton during his 1907–1909 attempt to reach the South Pole.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.