MV Derbyshire
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MV Derbyshire was a British ore-bulk-oil carrier that tragically sank in a typhoon south of Japan in 1980 with the loss of all 44 people on board, becoming one of the UK’s worst peacetime maritime disasters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MV Derbyshire canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8121033 — 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: MV Derbyshire Context triple: [Cammell Laird, built, MV Derbyshire]
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A.
401 Derby
401 Derby is the Major League Soccer rivalry between Toronto FC and CF Montréal, named after the Ontario Highway 401 that connects the two cities.
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B.
The Derby
The Derby is one of the most prestigious and historic flat horse races in the world, forming part of the British Classics and run annually at Epsom Downs.
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C.
Derby Corse
Derby Corse is the fiercely contested Corsican football rivalry match between AC Ajaccio and SC Bastia.
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D.
BREL Derby
BREL Derby was a major British railway engineering works in Derby that built and maintained rolling stock for the UK rail network.
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E.
Intu Derby
Intu Derby was a large shopping centre in Derby, England, formerly operated under the Intu Properties brand before being rebranded as Derbion.
- 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: MV Derbyshire Target entity description: MV Derbyshire was a British ore-bulk-oil carrier that tragically sank in a typhoon south of Japan in 1980 with the loss of all 44 people on board, becoming one of the UK’s worst peacetime maritime disasters.
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A.
401 Derby
401 Derby is the Major League Soccer rivalry between Toronto FC and CF Montréal, named after the Ontario Highway 401 that connects the two cities.
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B.
The Derby
The Derby is one of the most prestigious and historic flat horse races in the world, forming part of the British Classics and run annually at Epsom Downs.
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C.
Derby Corse
Derby Corse is the fiercely contested Corsican football rivalry match between AC Ajaccio and SC Bastia.
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D.
BREL Derby
BREL Derby was a major British railway engineering works in Derby that built and maintained rolling stock for the UK rail network.
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E.
Intu Derby
Intu Derby was a large shopping centre in Derby, England, formerly operated under the Intu Properties brand before being rebranded as Derbion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bulk carrier
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merchant ship ⓘ ore-bulk-oil carrier ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Derbyshire Family Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| beam | 44 m ⓘ |
| builtAt | Swan Hunter shipyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtFor | Bibby Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cargoType |
bulk cargo
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oil ⓘ ore ⓘ |
| causeOfSinking | Typhoon Orchid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| class | Bridge-class ore-bulk-oil carrier ⓘ |
| completedIn | 1976 ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewComplement | 42 ⓘ |
| dateOfSinking | 1980-09-09 ⓘ |
| deadweightTonnage | 169044 ⓘ |
| flag | British ⓘ |
| grossTonnage | 91655 ⓘ |
| IMONumber | 7343085 ⓘ |
| investigation | Formal Investigation by UK Department of Transport ⓘ |
| launchedIn | 1975 ⓘ |
| lengthOverall | 294 m ⓘ |
| locatedInBodyOfWater | Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memorialLocation | Liverpool NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Derbyshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAs | one of the UK’s worst peacetime maritime disasters ⓘ |
| numberOfDeaths | 44 ⓘ |
| numberOfPeopleOnBoard | 44 ⓘ |
| operator | Bibby Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Bibby Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passengersOnBoard | 2 ⓘ |
| placeOfSinking | South of Japan ⓘ |
| previousName | MV Liverpool Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propulsion | single screw diesel engine ⓘ |
| routeAtTimeOfSinking | from Canada to Japan ⓘ |
| sankIn | 1980 ⓘ |
| shipyard | Swan Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| survivors | 0 ⓘ |
| voyageDestination | Kawasaki, Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voyageOrigin | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wreckDepth | about 4200 m ⓘ |
| wreckLocatedIn | 1994 ⓘ |
| yearOfCompletion | 1976 ⓘ |
| yearOfLaunch | 1975 ⓘ |
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: MV Derbyshire Description of subject: MV Derbyshire was a British ore-bulk-oil carrier that tragically sank in a typhoon south of Japan in 1980 with the loss of all 44 people on board, becoming one of the UK’s worst peacetime maritime disasters.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.