SMS Szent István
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SMS Szent István was a Tegetthoff-class dreadnought battleship of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, best known for being sunk by Italian torpedo boats in 1918 during World War I.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| SMS Szent István canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9363362 — 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: SMS Szent István Context triple: [Austro-Hungarian Navy, notableShip, SMS Szent István]
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A.
István
István is the Hungarian given name of Stephen I of Hungary, the first Christian king and founder of the medieval Hungarian state.
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B.
Károly
Károly is the Hungarian form of the given name Charles, commonly used as a male first name in Hungary.
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C.
Imre
Imre is a Hungarian given name most famously borne by Imre Nagy, the reformist prime minister associated with the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
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D.
Mátyás
Mátyás is a Hungarian given name most notably borne by Mátyás Rákosi, the communist leader who dominated Hungary’s politics in the early Cold War era.
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E.
Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians
Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians, was the late 10th-century ruler who consolidated Hungarian power in the Carpathian Basin and initiated the kingdom’s gradual Christianization.
- 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: SMS Szent István Target entity description: SMS Szent István was a Tegetthoff-class dreadnought battleship of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, best known for being sunk by Italian torpedo boats in 1918 during World War I.
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A.
István
István is the Hungarian given name of Stephen I of Hungary, the first Christian king and founder of the medieval Hungarian state.
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B.
Károly
Károly is the Hungarian form of the given name Charles, commonly used as a male first name in Hungary.
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C.
Imre
Imre is a Hungarian given name most famously borne by Imre Nagy, the reformist prime minister associated with the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
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D.
Mátyás
Mátyás is a Hungarian given name most notably borne by Mátyás Rákosi, the communist leader who dominated Hungary’s politics in the early Cold War era.
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E.
Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians
Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians, was the late 10th-century ruler who consolidated Hungarian power in the Carpathian Basin and initiated the kingdom’s gradual Christianization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tegetthoff-class battleship
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dreadnought battleship ⓘ |
| armament |
12 × 15 cm secondary guns
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12 × 30.5 cm (12-inch) main guns in four triple turrets ⓘ smaller-caliber anti-torpedo boat guns ⓘ torpedo tubes ⓘ |
| beam | about 27.9 meters ⓘ |
| builder | Ganz & Co.–Danubius Shipyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtAt | Fiume NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfLoss | torpedo attack ⓘ |
| class | Tegetthoff class NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissioningDate | 1915-12-13 ⓘ |
| conflictSide | Central Powers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| constructionSite | Fiume, Austria-Hungary (now Rijeka, Croatia) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Austria-Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewComplement | approximately 1000 officers and men ⓘ |
| displacement |
20800 tons (standard, approximate)
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about 21500 tons (full load, approximate) ⓘ |
| draft | about 8.7 meters ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| fate | sunk ⓘ |
| hullNumber | fourth unit of the Tegetthoff class ⓘ |
| laidDownDate | 1912-01-29 ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1914-01-17 ⓘ |
| length | about 152 meters ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 20 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Saint Stephen of Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navalFleet | Austro-Hungarian Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the only Austro-Hungarian dreadnought sunk in combat
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its sinking being filmed ⓘ |
| operator | Austro-Hungarian Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propulsion |
steam turbines
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twelve oil- and coal-fired boilers ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceEntryYear | 1915 ⓘ |
| sinkingDate | 1918-06-10 ⓘ |
| sinkingLocation |
near Premuda
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off the Dalmatian coast ⓘ |
| sisterShip |
SMS Prinz Eugen
NERFINISHED
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SMS Tegetthoff NERFINISHED ⓘ SMS Viribus Unitis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sunkBy |
Italian torpedo boats
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MAS-15 NERFINISHED ⓘ MAS-21 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sunkIn | World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations | Adriatic Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInConflict | World War I ⓘ |
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: SMS Szent István Description of subject: SMS Szent István was a Tegetthoff-class dreadnought battleship of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, best known for being sunk by Italian torpedo boats in 1918 during World War I.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.