Ben-my-Chree (ro-ro ferry)
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Ben-my-Chree is a roll-on/roll-off passenger and vehicle ferry that operates scheduled services to and from the Isle of Man for the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ben-my-Chree (ro-ro ferry) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10132629 — 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: Ben-my-Chree (ro-ro ferry) Context triple: [Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, hasShip, Ben-my-Chree (ro-ro ferry)]
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A.
Issaquah-class ferry
The Issaquah-class ferry is a series of medium-sized, double-ended car and passenger ferries operated by Washington State Ferries on various routes in Puget Sound.
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B.
Jumbo Mark II-class ferry
The Jumbo Mark II-class ferry is a large, high-capacity class of passenger and vehicle ferries operated in Washington State, designed to serve some of the system’s busiest routes.
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C.
Port Liner
Port Liner is an automated guideway transit system in Kobe, Japan, known as one of the world’s first driverless urban transit lines, linking central Kobe with Port Island.
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D.
MV Arlanza
MV Arlanza was a British ocean liner built by the renowned shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff for passenger and cargo service in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Ferry
Ferry is a common French surname borne by various notable figures, including politicians such as Jules Ferry.
- 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: Ben-my-Chree (ro-ro ferry) Target entity description: Ben-my-Chree is a roll-on/roll-off passenger and vehicle ferry that operates scheduled services to and from the Isle of Man for the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company.
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A.
Issaquah-class ferry
The Issaquah-class ferry is a series of medium-sized, double-ended car and passenger ferries operated by Washington State Ferries on various routes in Puget Sound.
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B.
Jumbo Mark II-class ferry
The Jumbo Mark II-class ferry is a large, high-capacity class of passenger and vehicle ferries operated in Washington State, designed to serve some of the system’s busiest routes.
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C.
Port Liner
Port Liner is an automated guideway transit system in Kobe, Japan, known as one of the world’s first driverless urban transit lines, linking central Kobe with Port Island.
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D.
MV Arlanza
MV Arlanza was a British ocean liner built by the renowned shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff for passenger and cargo service in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Ferry
Ferry is a common French surname borne by various notable figures, including politicians such as Jules Ferry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
passenger ferry
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roll-on/roll-off ferry ⓘ |
| beam | 23.4 m ⓘ |
| builder | Van der Giessen de Noord NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtAt | Krimpen aan den IJssel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| callSign | MXLG9 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classificationSociety | Lloyd's Register NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistry | Isle of Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deadweightTonnage | 3950 dwt ⓘ |
| deckConfiguration | ro-ro stern loading ⓘ |
| draught | 5.7 m ⓘ |
| enteredService | 1998 ⓘ |
| flag | Isle of Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| freightLaneMetres | 1235 m ⓘ |
| grossTonnage | 12747 GT ⓘ |
| hasAccommodation | passenger cabins ⓘ |
| hasDeck |
passenger deck
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vehicle deck ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
bar
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cafeteria ⓘ lounge ⓘ shop ⓘ |
| hasSisterShip | MV Arrow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homePort | Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hullMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| IMONumber | 9170705 ⓘ |
| lengthOverall | 125 m ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | 19 knots ⓘ |
| MMSINumber | 235559000 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Ben-my-Chree NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | Manx ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | woman of my heart ⓘ |
| operatesIn | Irish Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passengerCapacity | 636 ⓘ |
| portOfRegistry | Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| powerType | motor ship ⓘ |
| primaryRole | Isle of Man lifeline ferry service ⓘ |
| propulsion | diesel engines ⓘ |
| routeServed |
Douglas–Belfast route
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Douglas–Birkenhead route ⓘ Douglas–Dublin route ⓘ Douglas–Heysham route NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceSpeed | 18 knots ⓘ |
| serviceType | scheduled ferry service ⓘ |
| vehicleCapacity | 200 cars ⓘ |
| 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: Ben-my-Chree (ro-ro ferry) Description of subject: Ben-my-Chree is a roll-on/roll-off passenger and vehicle ferry that operates scheduled services to and from the Isle of Man for the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.