FNS Hämeenmaa
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FNS Hämeenmaa is a Finnish Navy minelayer and flagship designed for coastal defense, mine warfare, and versatile naval operations in the Baltic Sea.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FNS Hämeenmaa canonical | 1 |
| FNS Uusimaa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8587173 — 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: FNS Hämeenmaa Context triple: [Hämeenmaa-class minelayer, hasMember, FNS Hämeenmaa]
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A.
Pirkanmaa
Pirkanmaa is a region in southern Finland centered around the city of Tampere, known for its lakes, industry, and cultural significance.
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B.
Kanta-Häme
Kanta-Häme is a region in southern Finland known for its historic towns, lakes, and forests, with Hämeenlinna as its central city.
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C.
Pirkanmaa region
Pirkanmaa region is a province in southern Finland centered around the city of Tampere, known for its lakes, industry, and cultural significance.
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D.
Sortavala District
Sortavala District is an administrative district in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located in the northwestern part of the country near the Finnish border and encompassing notable areas such as the Valaam archipelago on Lake Ladoga.
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E.
Hämeenlinna
Hämeenlinna is a historic city in southern Finland known for its medieval castle, cultural heritage, and role as a regional administrative and educational center.
- 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: FNS Hämeenmaa Target entity description: FNS Hämeenmaa is a Finnish Navy minelayer and flagship designed for coastal defense, mine warfare, and versatile naval operations in the Baltic Sea.
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A.
Pirkanmaa
Pirkanmaa is a region in southern Finland centered around the city of Tampere, known for its lakes, industry, and cultural significance.
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B.
Kanta-Häme
Kanta-Häme is a region in southern Finland known for its historic towns, lakes, and forests, with Hämeenlinna as its central city.
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C.
Pirkanmaa region
Pirkanmaa region is a province in southern Finland centered around the city of Tampere, known for its lakes, industry, and cultural significance.
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D.
Sortavala District
Sortavala District is an administrative district in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located in the northwestern part of the country near the Finnish border and encompassing notable areas such as the Valaam archipelago on Lake Ladoga.
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E.
Hämeenlinna
Hämeenlinna is a historic city in southern Finland known for its medieval castle, cultural heritage, and role as a regional administrative and educational center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
minelayer
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warship ⓘ |
| armament |
Bofors 40 mm gun
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bofors 57 mm naval gun NERFINISHED ⓘ depth charges ⓘ machine guns ⓘ mines ⓘ surface-to-air missiles ⓘ |
| beam | approximately 11 m ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1992 ⓘ |
| country | Finland ⓘ |
| crew | about 60 ⓘ |
| designedFor |
anti-air warfare support
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anti-surface warfare ⓘ coastal defense ⓘ escort duties ⓘ mine warfare ⓘ patrol operations ⓘ |
| displacement | approximately 1450 tonnes full load ⓘ |
| draught | approximately 3.2 m ⓘ |
| flag | Flag of Finland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCapability |
command and control
ⓘ
maritime surveillance ⓘ mine countermeasures support ⓘ mine laying ⓘ participation in international naval exercises ⓘ |
| hasRadar |
air search radar
ⓘ
surface search radar ⓘ |
| hasSonar | hull-mounted sonar ⓘ |
| homeport | Pansio Naval Base NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1989 ⓘ |
| launched | 1991 ⓘ |
| length | approximately 77 m ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | over 20 knots ⓘ |
| mineCapacity | over 150 naval mines ⓘ |
| modernization |
mid-life upgrade in the 2000s
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sensor and combat system upgrades ⓘ |
| namesake | Häme region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Finnish Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryTheater | Baltic Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propulsion | diesel engines ⓘ |
| propulsionType | CODAD ⓘ |
| role |
coastal defense ship
ⓘ
escort vessel ⓘ flagship ⓘ minelayer ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Finnish Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shipClass | Hämeenmaa-class minelayer 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: FNS Hämeenmaa Description of subject: FNS Hämeenmaa is a Finnish Navy minelayer and flagship designed for coastal defense, mine warfare, and versatile naval operations in the Baltic Sea.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
FNS Uusimaa