HMS New Zealand
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HMS New Zealand was a British Indefatigable-class battlecruiser of the Royal Navy that served prominently in World War I, including major North Sea engagements such as the Battle of Jutland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS New Zealand canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8000987 — 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 New Zealand Context triple: [Battle Cruiser Fleet, notableShip, HMS New Zealand]
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A.
HMS Maori
HMS Maori was a British Tribal-class destroyer that served with distinction in the Royal Navy during World War II, notably participating in Mediterranean and North Atlantic operations before being lost in 1942.
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B.
HMS Dunedin
HMS Dunedin was a British Royal Navy light cruiser that served with distinction between the World Wars and during the early years of World War II before being sunk in 1941.
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C.
HMS Eskimo
HMS Eskimo was a Royal Navy destroyer that saw extensive service during the Second World War, including major operations in the Arctic, Mediterranean, and Normandy landings.
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D.
HMS Reindeer
HMS Reindeer was a Royal Navy warship best known for her service during the Napoleonic Wars, including action in major naval engagements.
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E.
HMS Duke of Wellington
HMS Duke of Wellington was a pioneering 19th-century British Royal Navy ship of the line, notable as one of the first major steam-powered warships and a symbol of the transition from sail to steam power.
- 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 New Zealand Target entity description: HMS New Zealand was a British Indefatigable-class battlecruiser of the Royal Navy that served prominently in World War I, including major North Sea engagements such as the Battle of Jutland.
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A.
HMS Maori
HMS Maori was a British Tribal-class destroyer that served with distinction in the Royal Navy during World War II, notably participating in Mediterranean and North Atlantic operations before being lost in 1942.
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B.
HMS Dunedin
HMS Dunedin was a British Royal Navy light cruiser that served with distinction between the World Wars and during the early years of World War II before being sunk in 1941.
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C.
HMS Eskimo
HMS Eskimo was a Royal Navy destroyer that saw extensive service during the Second World War, including major operations in the Arctic, Mediterranean, and Normandy landings.
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D.
HMS Reindeer
HMS Reindeer was a Royal Navy warship best known for her service during the Napoleonic Wars, including action in major naval engagements.
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E.
HMS Duke of Wellington
HMS Duke of Wellington was a pioneering 19th-century British Royal Navy ship of the line, notable as one of the first major steam-powered warships and a symbol of the transition from sail to steam power.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indefatigable-class battlecruiser
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Royal Navy warship ⓘ battlecruiser ⓘ |
| armament |
16 × 4-inch (102 mm) guns
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8 × 12-inch (305 mm) guns in four twin turrets ⓘ torpedo tubes ⓘ |
| armour |
belt up to 6 inches (152 mm)
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turret faces up to 7 inches (178 mm) ⓘ |
| battleHonour |
Dogger Bank, 1915
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Heligoland, 1914 NERFINISHED ⓘ Jutland, 1916 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| beam | 80 ft (24 m) ⓘ |
| builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| captainAtJutland | Captain John F. E. Green NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| class | Indefatigable class NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1912-11-19 ⓘ |
| cost | approximately £2 million (contributed by New Zealand) ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crew | approximately 800–900 officers and men ⓘ |
| damageAtJutland | hit by several shells but remained operational ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 1922-02-15 ⓘ |
| displacement |
approximately 18,800 long tons (standard)
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approximately 22,130 long tons (deep load) ⓘ |
| draught | 29 ft (8.8 m) ⓘ |
| fate | sold for scrap ⓘ |
| flagshipOf | Rear-Admiral Sir David Beatty (for a period before Jutland) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fundedBy | New Zealand government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1910-06-20 ⓘ |
| launched | 1911-07-01 ⓘ |
| length | 590 ft (180 m) ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | 25 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Dominion of New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature | carried a ceremonial Māori piupiu and tiki as talismans ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Dogger Bank
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Heligoland Bight NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Jutland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| power | about 44,000 shp (designed) ⓘ |
| propulsion |
Parsons steam turbines
NERFINISHED
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coal-fired boilers with oil spray ⓘ |
| range | about 6,690 nmi at 10 knots ⓘ |
| reasonForDisposal | Washington Naval Treaty limitations ⓘ |
| scrapped | 1923 ⓘ |
| serviceEntryConflict | World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shipyard | Govan, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| squadronAssignment | 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| survivedBattle | Battle of Jutland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theatreOfOperations | North Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| visitedCountry | New Zealand 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 New Zealand Description of subject: HMS New Zealand was a British Indefatigable-class battlecruiser of the Royal Navy that served prominently in World War I, including major North Sea engagements such as the Battle of Jutland.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.