RMS Titanic
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RMS Titanic was a British Olympic-class ocean liner that tragically sank on its maiden voyage in 1912 after striking an iceberg, becoming one of the most famous maritime disasters in history.
All labels observed (16)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T642138 — 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: RMS Titanic Context triple: [Titanic Quarter, namedAfter, RMS Titanic]
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M/V Aurora
M/V Aurora is a state-operated ferry vessel that serves coastal communities as part of Alaska’s Marine Highway System.
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Titanic
Titanic is a 1997 epic romantic disaster film directed by James Cameron that dramatizes the sinking of the RMS Titanic while following a love story between characters played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
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M/V Columbia
M/V Columbia is a mainline passenger and vehicle ferry that serves as one of the flagship vessels of the Alaska Marine Highway System, operating along coastal routes in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
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Marchioness
A Marchioness is a noblewoman holding the rank of marquess or marquis, positioned above a baroness in the hierarchy of European aristocratic titles.
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M/V Kennicott
M/V Kennicott is a mainline Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger, vehicle, and cargo service to coastal communities across Alaska.
- 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: RMS Titanic Target entity description: RMS Titanic was a British Olympic-class ocean liner that tragically sank on its maiden voyage in 1912 after striking an iceberg, becoming one of the most famous maritime disasters in history.
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A.
M/V Aurora
M/V Aurora is a state-operated ferry vessel that serves coastal communities as part of Alaska’s Marine Highway System.
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B.
Titanic
Titanic is a 1997 epic romantic disaster film directed by James Cameron that dramatizes the sinking of the RMS Titanic while following a love story between characters played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
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C.
M/V Columbia
M/V Columbia is a mainline passenger and vehicle ferry that serves as one of the flagship vessels of the Alaska Marine Highway System, operating along coastal routes in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
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D.
Marchioness
A Marchioness is a noblewoman holding the rank of marquess or marquis, positioned above a baroness in the hierarchy of European aristocratic titles.
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E.
M/V Kennicott
M/V Kennicott is a mainline Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger, vehicle, and cargo service to coastal communities across Alaska.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: RMS Titanic Description of subject: RMS Titanic was a British Olympic-class ocean liner that tragically sank on its maiden voyage in 1912 after striking an iceberg, becoming one of the most famous maritime disasters in history.
Referenced by (93)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Harry Elkins Widener
this entity surface form:
sinking of the RMS Titanic
this entity surface form:
sinking of the RMS Titanic
St. Paul’s Episcopal Churchyard, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, United States
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sinking of RMS Titanic (through burial of victim Harry Elkins Widener)
this entity surface form:
sinking of RMS Titanic
this entity surface form:
sinking of the RMS Titanic
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North Atlantic iceberg collision of RMS Titanic
this entity surface form:
sinking of the RMS Titanic
this entity surface form:
sinking of the RMS Titanic
this entity surface form:
RMS Titanic disaster
this entity surface form:
sinking of the RMS Titanic
this entity surface form:
sinking of the RMS Titanic
this entity surface form:
Titanic
this entity surface form:
sinking of the RMS Titanic
this entity surface form:
Titanic
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1987 RMS Titanic expedition
this entity surface form:
sinking of the RMS Titanic
this entity surface form:
sinking of the RMS Titanic
this entity surface form:
Titanic disaster