HMS Courageous
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HMS Courageous was a British Royal Navy aircraft carrier that served during the early years of World War II before being sunk by a German U-boat in 1939.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Courageous canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6797675 — 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 Courageous Context triple: [Fairey Swordfish, enteredServiceWith, HMS Courageous]
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A.
HMS Glorious
HMS Glorious was a British Royal Navy aircraft carrier, originally built as a battlecruiser, that served during the interwar period and early World War II before being sunk in 1940.
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B.
HMS Valiant
HMS Valiant was a British Royal Navy nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the Valiant class that served during the Cold War.
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C.
HMS Rodney
HMS Rodney was a British Royal Navy battleship of the Nelson class that served prominently during World War II, including in major Atlantic and Mediterranean operations and the destruction of the German battleship Bismarck.
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D.
HMS Lion
HMS Lion was a British Royal Navy battlecruiser of the early 20th century that served as a flagship and saw major action during World War I, including at the Battle of Jutland.
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E.
HMS Renown
HMS Renown was a British Royal Navy battlecruiser that served in both World Wars, noted for her high speed, heavy armament, and extensive modernizations.
- 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 Courageous Target entity description: HMS Courageous was a British Royal Navy aircraft carrier that served during the early years of World War II before being sunk by a German U-boat in 1939.
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A.
HMS Glorious
HMS Glorious was a British Royal Navy aircraft carrier, originally built as a battlecruiser, that served during the interwar period and early World War II before being sunk in 1940.
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B.
HMS Valiant
HMS Valiant was a British Royal Navy nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the Valiant class that served during the Cold War.
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C.
HMS Rodney
HMS Rodney was a British Royal Navy battleship of the Nelson class that served prominently during World War II, including in major Atlantic and Mediterranean operations and the destruction of the German battleship Bismarck.
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D.
HMS Lion
HMS Lion was a British Royal Navy battlecruiser of the early 20th century that served as a flagship and saw major action during World War I, including at the Battle of Jutland.
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E.
HMS Renown
HMS Renown was a British Royal Navy battlecruiser that served in both World Wars, noted for her high speed, heavy armament, and extensive modernizations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy aircraft carrier
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military vessel ⓘ warship ⓘ |
| airGroup | fixed-wing aircraft ⓘ |
| armamentAsBattlecruiser | 4 × 15-inch guns (in two twin turrets) ⓘ |
| armamentAsCarrier | anti-aircraft guns ⓘ |
| assignedTo | Home Fleet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builder | Armstrong Whitworth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| casualties | over 500 lives lost ⓘ |
| causeOfLoss | torpedoed ⓘ |
| classNameEponym | Courageous-class NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissioned | 4 November 1916 ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War I
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World War II ⓘ |
| convertedToAircraftCarrier | 1924–1928 ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfSinking | 17 September 1939 ⓘ |
| designedBy | Admiral John Jellicoe’s requirements for shallow-draught battlecruisers ⓘ |
| displacement | about 22,500 tons (standard, as carrier) ⓘ |
| era |
early World War II
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interwar period ⓘ |
| fate | sunk by German submarine ⓘ |
| flag | White Ensign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homePort | Plymouth (in early WWII) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hullNumber | 50 ⓘ |
| laidDown | 28 March 1915 ⓘ |
| laterClass | Courageous-class aircraft carrier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launched | 5 February 1916 ⓘ |
| length | approximately 786 feet ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 30 knots ⓘ |
| navalEnsign | White Ensign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
first British warship lost in World War II
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sinking led to withdrawal of fleet carriers from ASW patrols ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| originalClass | Courageous-class battlecruiser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfSinking | off the southwest coast of Ireland ⓘ |
| propulsion |
four shafts
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steam turbines ⓘ |
| recommissionedAsAircraftCarrier | 1928 ⓘ |
| role |
ASW escort carrier (early WWII employment)
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fleet aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| serviceEntryEra | World War I era ⓘ |
| shipType |
aircraft carrier (after conversion)
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battlecruiser (as built) ⓘ |
| shipyard | Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sisterShip |
HMS Furious
NERFINISHED
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HMS Glorious NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sunkBy |
German U-boat
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U-29 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 Courageous Description of subject: HMS Courageous was a British Royal Navy aircraft carrier that served during the early years of World War II before being sunk by a German U-boat in 1939.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Fairey Swordfish