Type 22 frigate
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The Type 22 frigate is a class of Royal Navy warships designed primarily for anti-submarine warfare and later adapted for general-purpose roles, featuring advanced sensors and missile systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Type 22 frigate canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9594168 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Type 22 frigate Context triple: [4.5 inch Mark 8 naval gun, fittedOn, Type 22 frigate]
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Type 21 frigate
The Type 21 frigate was a class of British Royal Navy general-purpose frigates introduced in the late 1960s, known for their high speed, light construction, and service during the Falklands War.
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B.
Type 26 frigate
The Type 26 frigate is a class of advanced, multi-mission Royal Navy warships designed primarily for anti-submarine warfare and global combat operations.
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C.
Type 23 frigates
Type 23 frigates are a class of Royal Navy warships designed primarily for anti-submarine warfare, also used in general-purpose roles such as escort duties and maritime security operations.
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Gepard-class frigate
The Gepard-class frigate is a class of Russian multi-role warships designed for patrol, escort, and anti-submarine operations, used both by the Russian Navy and for export.
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E.
FREMM frigate
The FREMM frigate is a class of advanced, multi-mission warships developed by France and Italy, designed for roles such as anti-submarine warfare, air defense, and land attack.
- 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: Type 22 frigate Target entity description: The Type 22 frigate is a class of Royal Navy warships designed primarily for anti-submarine warfare and later adapted for general-purpose roles, featuring advanced sensors and missile systems.
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A.
Type 21 frigate
The Type 21 frigate was a class of British Royal Navy general-purpose frigates introduced in the late 1960s, known for their high speed, light construction, and service during the Falklands War.
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B.
Type 26 frigate
The Type 26 frigate is a class of advanced, multi-mission Royal Navy warships designed primarily for anti-submarine warfare and global combat operations.
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C.
Type 23 frigates
Type 23 frigates are a class of Royal Navy warships designed primarily for anti-submarine warfare, also used in general-purpose roles such as escort duties and maritime security operations.
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D.
Gepard-class frigate
The Gepard-class frigate is a class of Russian multi-role warships designed for patrol, escort, and anti-submarine operations, used both by the Russian Navy and for export.
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E.
FREMM frigate
The FREMM frigate is a class of advanced, multi-mission warships developed by France and Italy, designed for roles such as anti-submarine warfare, air defense, and land attack.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy ship class
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frigate class ⓘ warship class ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Broadsword class NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtIn | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn |
Falklands War
NERFINISHED
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Gulf War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| designedBy | British ship designers ⓘ |
| designedFor | North Atlantic anti-submarine operations ⓘ |
| designedPeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
| designedToOperateWith | Royal Navy carrier task groups NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enteredServiceWith | Royal Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Type 23 frigate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasArmament |
anti-ship missiles
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naval guns ⓘ surface-to-air missiles ⓘ torpedo tubes ⓘ |
| hasAviationFacilityFor |
Lynx helicopter
NERFINISHED
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Merlin helicopter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCapability |
anti-air warfare
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anti-submarine warfare ⓘ anti-surface warfare ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
advanced sonar systems
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hangar for helicopters ⓘ helicopter flight deck ⓘ surface-to-air missile systems ⓘ surface-to-surface missile systems ⓘ |
| hasPropulsion | gas-turbine propulsion ⓘ |
| hasRole |
convoy protection
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escort duties ⓘ task group air defence ⓘ |
| hasSensor |
air and surface search radar
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hull-mounted sonar ⓘ towed-array sonar ⓘ |
| hasSubclass |
Type 22 Batch 1
NERFINISHED
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Type 22 Batch 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Type 22 Batch 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| precededBy | Leander-class frigate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryRole | anti-submarine warfare ⓘ |
| secondaryRole | general-purpose warfare ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| successorOf | Leander-class frigate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Brazilian Navy
NERFINISHED
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Chilean Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ Romanian Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Navy ⓘ |
| usedFor | NATO maritime operations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn | Cold War 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: Type 22 frigate Description of subject: The Type 22 frigate is a class of Royal Navy warships designed primarily for anti-submarine warfare and later adapted for general-purpose roles, featuring advanced sensors and missile systems.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.