SS Celtic
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SS Celtic was a British ocean liner of the White Star Line, notable as one of the company’s “Big Four” steamships operating transatlantic passenger and mail services in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SS Celtic canonical | 1 |
| SS Celtic (1872) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10226379 — 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: SS Celtic Context triple: [Edward John Smith, shipCommanded, SS Celtic]
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A.
Celtic F.C.
Celtic F.C. is a Glasgow-based professional football club and one of Scotland’s most successful and widely supported teams, renowned for its domestic dominance and historic 1967 European Cup triumph.
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B.
Swords Celtic F.C.
Swords Celtic F.C. is an Irish association football club based in Swords, County Dublin, competing in local and regional leagues.
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C.
Highlanders F.C.
Highlanders F.C. is one of Zimbabwe’s oldest and most successful football clubs, based in the city of Bulawayo.
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D.
Celtic F.C. Reserves and Juniors
Celtic F.C. Reserves and Juniors is the developmental and youth setup of Celtic Football Club, nurturing emerging players before they progress to the senior first team.
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E.
Caledonian F.C.
Caledonian F.C. was a historic Inverness-based Scottish football club that competed in the Highland League before merging to help form Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C.
- 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: SS Celtic Target entity description: SS Celtic was a British ocean liner of the White Star Line, notable as one of the company’s “Big Four” steamships operating transatlantic passenger and mail services in the early 20th century.
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A.
Celtic F.C.
Celtic F.C. is a Glasgow-based professional football club and one of Scotland’s most successful and widely supported teams, renowned for its domestic dominance and historic 1967 European Cup triumph.
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B.
Swords Celtic F.C.
Swords Celtic F.C. is an Irish association football club based in Swords, County Dublin, competing in local and regional leagues.
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C.
Highlanders F.C.
Highlanders F.C. is one of Zimbabwe’s oldest and most successful football clubs, based in the city of Bulawayo.
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D.
Celtic F.C. Reserves and Juniors
Celtic F.C. Reserves and Juniors is the developmental and youth setup of Celtic Football Club, nurturing emerging players before they progress to the senior first team.
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E.
Caledonian F.C.
Caledonian F.C. was a historic Inverness-based Scottish football club that competed in the Highland League before merging to help form Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ocean liner
ⓘ
steamship ⓘ |
| armedBy | Royal Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builder | Harland and Wolff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtFor | White Star Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classCapacityFirst | 347 ⓘ |
| classCapacitySecond | 160 ⓘ |
| classCapacityThird | 2963 ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1901-07-11 ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewComplement | 350 ⓘ |
| dateOfMineDamage | 1917-02-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfTorpedoAttack | 1917-03-31 ⓘ |
| dateOfWreck | 1928-12-10 ⓘ |
| enteredService | 1901-07-26 ⓘ |
| fate | wrecked ⓘ |
| finalVoyageDate | 1928-12-06 ⓘ |
| flag | British flag ⓘ |
| groundingLocation | near Roches Point, off Cobh, Ireland ⓘ |
| hitBy | mine ⓘ |
| homePort | Liverpool NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| IMOCategory | historic passenger ship ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1901-04-04 ⓘ |
| length | 213 m ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | 16 knots ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of White Star Line's Big Four liners
ⓘ
large third-class capacity for emigrant traffic ⓘ |
| operator | White Star Line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Oceanic Steam Navigation Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Big Four (White Star Line) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passengerCapacity | 3470 ⓘ |
| propulsion |
steam engines
ⓘ
twin screw propellers ⓘ |
| returnedToCivilianService | 1919 ⓘ |
| route |
Liverpool–New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York–Liverpool NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scrapped | on site after wreck ⓘ |
| serviceSpeed | 14 knots ⓘ |
| serviceType |
mail service
ⓘ
transatlantic passenger service ⓘ |
| shipyard | Harland and Wolff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sisterShip |
SS Adriatic (1907)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
SS Baltic NERFINISHED ⓘ SS Cedric NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tonnage | 20604 GRT ⓘ |
| torpedoedBy | German submarine ⓘ |
| worldWarIService |
armed merchant cruiser
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troopship ⓘ |
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: SS Celtic Description of subject: SS Celtic was a British ocean liner of the White Star Line, notable as one of the company’s “Big Four” steamships operating transatlantic passenger and mail services in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Edward John Smith
this entity surface form:
SS Celtic (1872)