SMS Grosser Kurfürst
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SMS Grosser Kurfürst was a German Kaiser-class dreadnought battleship of the Imperial German Navy that served during World War I, including in the Battle of Jutland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SMS Grosser Kurfürst canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10187887 — 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 Grosser Kurfürst Context triple: [SMS König, sisterShip, SMS Grosser Kurfürst]
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A.
Stolberg
Stolberg is a historic German town in the Harz region, known for its well-preserved medieval architecture and role in early Reformation-era history.
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B.
Kaisermühlen
Kaisermühlen is a district of Vienna, Austria, known for its modern developments along the Danube and for hosting major international institutions.
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C.
Karlshagen
Karlshagen is a seaside resort village on the Baltic coast of northeastern Germany, located on the island of Usedom and known for its sandy beaches and tourism.
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D.
Nassau-Siegen
Nassau-Siegen was a German county in the Holy Roman Empire centered on the town of Siegen and ruled by a branch of the House of Nassau.
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E.
Brühl
Brühl is a German town in North Rhine-Westphalia known for its historic architecture and as the birthplace of surrealist artist Max Ernst.
- 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 Grosser Kurfürst Target entity description: SMS Grosser Kurfürst was a German Kaiser-class dreadnought battleship of the Imperial German Navy that served during World War I, including in the Battle of Jutland.
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A.
Stolberg
Stolberg is a historic German town in the Harz region, known for its well-preserved medieval architecture and role in early Reformation-era history.
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B.
Kaisermühlen
Kaisermühlen is a district of Vienna, Austria, known for its modern developments along the Danube and for hosting major international institutions.
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C.
Karlshagen
Karlshagen is a seaside resort village on the Baltic coast of northeastern Germany, located on the island of Usedom and known for its sandy beaches and tourism.
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D.
Nassau-Siegen
Nassau-Siegen was a German county in the Holy Roman Empire centered on the town of Siegen and ruled by a branch of the House of Nassau.
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E.
Brühl
Brühl is a German town in North Rhine-Westphalia known for its historic architecture and as the birthplace of surrealist artist Max Ernst.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Kaiser-class battleship
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World War I battleship ⓘ dreadnought battleship ⓘ |
| armament |
10 × 30.5 cm (12 in) SK L/50 guns
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14 × 15 cm SK L/45 guns ⓘ 5 × 50 cm torpedo tubes ⓘ 8 × 8.8 cm guns ⓘ |
| armorBelt | up to 350 mm ⓘ |
| armorDeck | up to 60 mm ⓘ |
| beam | about 29 meters ⓘ |
| builder | AG Vulcan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtAt | AG Vulcan shipyard, Hamburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| class | Kaiser class NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissionedOn | 1912 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War I ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | German Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewComplement | about 1,100 officers and men ⓘ |
| dateOfScuttling | 21 June 1919 ⓘ |
| displacement |
approximately 24,700 tonnes standard
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approximately 27,000 tonnes full load ⓘ |
| draft | about 9.1 meters ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| fate | interned at Scapa Flow after World War I ⓘ |
| finalStatus | wreck raised and scrapped ⓘ |
| fleetAssignment | III Battle Squadron of the High Seas Fleet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laidDownOn | 1910 ⓘ |
| launchedOn | 1911 ⓘ |
| length | about 172 meters ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | about 21 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedFor | Großer Kurfürst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navalArchitectureType | all-big-gun battleship ⓘ |
| navalTheater | North Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Imperial German Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Battle of Jutland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededByClass | Helgoland class NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propulsion |
coal-fired boilers
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steam turbines ⓘ |
| roleAtJutland | line battleship in the German High Seas Fleet ⓘ |
| scuttledAt | Scapa Flow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Kaiserliche Marine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sisterShipOf |
SMS Friedrich der Grosse
NERFINISHED
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SMS Kaiser NERFINISHED ⓘ SMS Kaiserin NERFINISHED ⓘ SMS Prinzregent Luitpold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededByClass | König class NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tookPartIn |
Battle of Jutland
NERFINISHED
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Operation Albion 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: SMS Grosser Kurfürst Description of subject: SMS Grosser Kurfürst was a German Kaiser-class dreadnought battleship of the Imperial German Navy that served during World War I, including in the Battle of Jutland.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
SMS König
subject surface form:
SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm
subject surface form:
SMS Markgraf