Maersk Alabama
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Maersk Alabama is a U.S.-flagged container ship that became widely known after being seized by Somali pirates in 2009, inspiring the film "Captain Phillips."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maersk Alabama canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10011123 — 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: Maersk Alabama Context triple: [Abduwali Muse, hijacks, Maersk Alabama]
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A.
SS Imo
SS Imo was a Norwegian cargo ship best known for its catastrophic collision with the munitions-laden SS Mont-Blanc in 1917, which triggered the devastating Halifax Explosion.
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B.
SS Mayaguez
SS Mayaguez was a U.S. merchant container ship best known for its 1975 seizure by Cambodian Khmer Rouge forces, which triggered the last official battle involving American ground troops in the Vietnam War era.
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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.
Arielle Ship
Arielle Ship is an American soccer forward known for her standout collegiate career at the University of California, Berkeley and subsequent professional play in the National Women's Soccer League.
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E.
M/V Tustumena
M/V Tustumena is a rugged Alaska Marine Highway ferry known for serving remote coastal communities and challenging open-ocean routes in the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands.
- 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: Maersk Alabama Target entity description: Maersk Alabama is a U.S.-flagged container ship that became widely known after being seized by Somali pirates in 2009, inspiring the film "Captain Phillips."
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A.
SS Imo
SS Imo was a Norwegian cargo ship best known for its catastrophic collision with the munitions-laden SS Mont-Blanc in 1917, which triggered the devastating Halifax Explosion.
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B.
SS Mayaguez
SS Mayaguez was a U.S. merchant container ship best known for its 1975 seizure by Cambodian Khmer Rouge forces, which triggered the last official battle involving American ground troops in the Vietnam War era.
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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.
Arielle Ship
Arielle Ship is an American soccer forward known for her standout collegiate career at the University of California, Berkeley and subsequent professional play in the National Women's Soccer League.
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E.
M/V Tustumena
M/V Tustumena is a rugged Alaska Marine Highway ferry known for serving remote coastal communities and challenging open-ocean routes in the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S.-flagged vessel
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container ship ⓘ |
| associatedOrganization | World Food Programme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| beam | 25.2 meters ⓘ |
| builder | Maersk Shipyard Odense Steel Shipyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtIn | Odense, Denmark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| callSign | WDD7201 ⓘ |
| capacity | 1100 TEU ⓘ |
| cargoDuringHijacking | food aid for the World Food Programme ⓘ |
| classification | container feeder ship ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewNationalityMajority | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewSizeDuringHijacking | 20 ⓘ |
| deadweightTonnage | 11,000 DWT ⓘ |
| eventDate | 2009-04-08 ⓘ |
| eventLocation | Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDirector | Paul Greengrass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmLeadActor | Tom Hanks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| flagState | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grossTonnage | 14,120 GT ⓘ |
| hijackedBy | Somali pirates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hijackingEndedBy | United States Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homePort | Norfolk, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hullMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| IMONumber | 9164263 ⓘ |
| lengthOverall | 155 meters ⓘ |
| masterDuringHijacking | Richard Phillips NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates ⓘ |
| notableFor | first successful pirate seizure of a U.S.-flagged cargo ship since early 19th century ⓘ |
| operator | Maersk Line Limited NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Maersk Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | Captain Phillips NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postHijackingStatus | returned to service after 2009 incident ⓘ |
| propulsion | diesel engine ⓘ |
| relatedWork | film "Captain Phillips" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rescuedBy |
USS Bainbridge
NERFINISHED
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USS Boxer NERFINISHED ⓘ USS Halyburton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| route | commercial shipping routes to East Africa ⓘ |
| securityChangesAfterEvent | increased armed security on board ⓘ |
| securityIncidentType | maritime piracy ⓘ |
| service | commercial service in international trade ⓘ |
| serviceSpeed | 18 knots ⓘ |
| use | containerized cargo transport ⓘ |
| yearBuilt | 1998 ⓘ |
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: Maersk Alabama Description of subject: Maersk Alabama is a U.S.-flagged container ship that became widely known after being seized by Somali pirates in 2009, inspiring the film "Captain Phillips."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.