HMS Topaze
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HMS Topaze was a 19th-century Royal Navy warship best known for transporting significant cultural artifacts, including the Easter Island statue Hoa Hakananaiʻa, to Britain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Topaze canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5786085 — 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 Topaze Context triple: [Hoa Hakananaiʻa, broughtToBritainBy, HMS Topaze]
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A.
HMS Ambush
HMS Ambush is a British Royal Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Astute class, designed for stealth, intelligence gathering, and precision strike capabilities.
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B.
HMS Oribi
HMS Oribi was a British Royal Navy O-class destroyer that served with distinction during World War II, notably in Arctic convoy and North Atlantic operations.
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C.
HMS Attack
HMS Attack was a Royal Navy warship that served during the Napoleonic Wars and took part in major naval actions such as the Battle of San Domingo.
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D.
HMS Tenedos
HMS Tenedos was a British Royal Navy destroyer that served in the early years of World War II, including operations in the Pacific.
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E.
HMS Bedouin
HMS Bedouin was a Royal Navy destroyer of World War II that served in various escort and combat operations before being sunk during the Arctic convoys.
- 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 Topaze Target entity description: HMS Topaze was a 19th-century Royal Navy warship best known for transporting significant cultural artifacts, including the Easter Island statue Hoa Hakananaiʻa, to Britain.
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A.
HMS Ambush
HMS Ambush is a British Royal Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Astute class, designed for stealth, intelligence gathering, and precision strike capabilities.
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B.
HMS Oribi
HMS Oribi was a British Royal Navy O-class destroyer that served with distinction during World War II, notably in Arctic convoy and North Atlantic operations.
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C.
HMS Attack
HMS Attack was a Royal Navy warship that served during the Napoleonic Wars and took part in major naval actions such as the Battle of San Domingo.
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D.
HMS Tenedos
HMS Tenedos was a British Royal Navy destroyer that served in the early years of World War II, including operations in the Pacific.
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E.
HMS Bedouin
HMS Bedouin was a Royal Navy destroyer of World War II that served in various escort and combat operations before being sunk during the Arctic convoys.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy corvette
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sailing frigate ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| armament | guns ⓘ |
| artifactOrigin |
Easter Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rapa Nui NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtFor | Royal Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| carried | Hoa Hakananaiʻa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| class | Topaze-class corvette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1859 ⓘ |
| constructionMaterial | wood ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| destinationOfHoaHakananaiʻa |
British Museum
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| fate | broken up ⓘ |
| flag | White Ensign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gathered |
archaeological artifacts
ⓘ
ethnographic objects ⓘ natural history specimens ⓘ |
| hasHullType | wooden hull ⓘ |
| hasSuccessorNameShip | HMS Topaze (cruiser) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launched | 1858 ⓘ |
| launchPlace | Devonport Dockyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | HMS Topaze NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | topaz ⓘ |
| notableFor |
transporting cultural artifacts to Britain
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transporting the Easter Island statue Hoa Hakananaiʻa to Britain ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| periodOfService | Victorian era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propulsion |
auxiliary steam engine
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sail ⓘ |
| rigging | full-rigged ship ⓘ |
| scrapped | 1884 ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| usedFor |
diplomatic missions
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patrol ⓘ showing the flag ⓘ survey work ⓘ |
| visited |
Chile
NERFINISHED
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Easter Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ South America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Topaze Description of subject: HMS Topaze was a 19th-century Royal Navy warship best known for transporting significant cultural artifacts, including the Easter Island statue Hoa Hakananaiʻa, to Britain.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hoa Hakananaiʻa