HMS Howe

E616901

HMS Howe was a British King George V-class battleship that served prominently with the Royal Navy during World War II, including operations in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
HMS Howe canonical 2

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf King George V-class battleship
Royal Navy warship
armamentAA multiple 40 mm and 20 mm anti-aircraft guns
armamentPrimary 10 × 14-inch (356 mm) guns
armamentSecondary 16 × 5.25-inch (133 mm) dual-purpose guns
armourBelt up to 15 inches
armourDeck up to 6 inches
armourTurrets up to 13 inches
beam 31.5 metres
builtAt Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company NERFINISHED
class King George V class NERFINISHED
commissioned 1942-08-29
conflict World War II
surface form: Second World War
country United Kingdom
crewComplement about 1,500 officers and ratings
decommissioned 1950-08-01
displacementFullLoad about 42,000 long tons
displacementStandard about 36,700 long tons
draught 10.4 metres
fate scrapped
followedBy HMS Vanguard (different class, later battleship) NERFINISHED
laidDown 1937-06-01
launched 1940-04-09
lengthOverall 227.1 metres
maximumSpeed 28 knots
namedAfter Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe NERFINISHED
operator Royal Navy
participatedIn Arctic convoys to the Soviet Union NERFINISHED
British Pacific Fleet operations
Operation Avalanche NERFINISHED
Operation Husky NERFINISHED
bombardment of Salerno
bombardment of Sicily
operations off Okinawa
pennantNumber 32
powerOutput about 110,000 shaft horsepower
precededBy HMS Anson NERFINISHED
propulsion 4 shafts
steam turbines
role fleet flagship at various times
scrapped 1958
scrappedAt Inverkeithing, Scotland NERFINISHED
shipType battleship
shipyardLocation Govan, Scotland NERFINISHED
theaterOfOperations Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED
Mediterranean Sea NERFINISHED
Pacific Ocean 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 Howe
Description of subject: HMS Howe was a British King George V-class battleship that served prominently with the Royal Navy during World War II, including operations in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.