HMS Hardy
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HMS Hardy was a British Royal Navy H-class destroyer that served as the flotilla leader in several early World War II operations, including the Battle of Narvik.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HMS Hardy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8606183 — 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 Hardy Context triple: [London Gazette Victoria Cross citation for Bernard Warburton-Lee, describesCommandOfRecipient, HMS Hardy]
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A.
HMS Obdurate
HMS Obdurate was a British Royal Navy O-class destroyer that served with distinction as an escort vessel on Arctic convoys and in key naval engagements during World War II.
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B.
HMS Havock
HMS Havock was an H-class Royal Navy destroyer that saw active service in the Mediterranean during the early years of World War II.
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C.
HMS Saumarez
HMS Saumarez was a British Royal Navy S-class destroyer that saw significant action during World War II, including Arctic convoy escort duties and major naval engagements.
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D.
HMS Attack
HMS Attack was a Royal Navy warship that served during the Napoleonic Wars and took part in major naval actions such as the Battle of San Domingo.
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E.
HMS Berwick
HMS Berwick was a Royal Navy ship of the line that served in the 18th century and is notably associated with the early career of Admiral Edward Hawke.
- 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 Hardy Target entity description: HMS Hardy was a British Royal Navy H-class destroyer that served as the flotilla leader in several early World War II operations, including the Battle of Narvik.
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A.
HMS Obdurate
HMS Obdurate was a British Royal Navy O-class destroyer that served with distinction as an escort vessel on Arctic convoys and in key naval engagements during World War II.
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B.
HMS Havock
HMS Havock was an H-class Royal Navy destroyer that saw active service in the Mediterranean during the early years of World War II.
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C.
HMS Saumarez
HMS Saumarez was a British Royal Navy S-class destroyer that saw significant action during World War II, including Arctic convoy escort duties and major naval engagements.
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D.
HMS Attack
HMS Attack was a Royal Navy warship that served during the Napoleonic Wars and took part in major naval actions such as the Battle of San Domingo.
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E.
HMS Berwick
HMS Berwick was a Royal Navy ship of the line that served in the 18th century and is notably associated with the early career of Admiral Edward Hawke.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
H-class destroyer
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Royal Navy destroyer ⓘ |
| armament |
2 × quadruple 0.5-inch Vickers machine guns
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2 × quadruple 21-inch torpedo tubes ⓘ 4 × 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns ⓘ depth charges ⓘ |
| awardedToCrew | Victoria Cross (to Bernard Warburton-Lee) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| beam | 33 ft ⓘ |
| builder | Cammell Laird NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfLoss | battle damage ⓘ |
| classLeadShipOf | H-class destroyer flotilla leaders ⓘ |
| commandingOfficer | Captain Bernard Warburton-Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissionedDate | 1936-12-10 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crewComplement | 145 ⓘ |
| dateOfSinking | 1940-04-10 ⓘ |
| displacementDeepLoad | 1883 long tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | 1350 long tons ⓘ |
| draught | 12 ft ⓘ |
| era | early World War II ⓘ |
| fate | sunk ⓘ |
| flotillaLeaderOf | 2nd Destroyer Flotilla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hullNumber | H87 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laidDownDate | 1935-12-30 ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1936-04-07 ⓘ |
| lengthOverall | 323 ft ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | 36 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navalTheatre |
North Sea
NERFINISHED
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Norwegian waters ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
First Battle of Narvik
NERFINISHED
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Norwegian Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ Second Battle of Narvik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pennantNumber | H87 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfSinking |
Ofotfjord
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
near Narvik ⓘ |
| powerOutput | 34000 shp ⓘ |
| propulsion |
Admiralty 3-drum boilers
NERFINISHED
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steam turbines ⓘ |
| range | 5530 nmi at 15 knots ⓘ |
| role | flotilla leader ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | interwar period ⓘ |
| shipClass | H-class destroyer ⓘ |
| shipyardLocation | Birkenhead 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 Hardy Description of subject: HMS Hardy was a British Royal Navy H-class destroyer that served as the flotilla leader in several early World War II operations, including the Battle of Narvik.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
London Gazette Victoria Cross citation for Bernard Warburton-Lee