HMS Director
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HMS Director was a Royal Navy warship best known as the vessel commanded by William Bligh after the Bounty mutiny and for its involvement in the Spithead and Nore mutinies of 1797.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Director canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10122951 — 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: HMS Director Context triple: [William Bligh, shipCommanded, HMS Director]
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A.
HMS Drake
HMS Drake was a British armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy, launched in the early 20th century and serving prominently before and during World War I.
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B.
HMS Drake
HMS Drake was a British Royal Navy warship that served during the Age of Sail and was notable enough to be captured and taken into service by the United States as USS Ranger.
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C.
HMS Captain
HMS Captain was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line in the Royal Navy, notable for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797.
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D.
HMS Excellent
HMS Excellent was a notable Royal Navy warship that served during the late 18th century, distinguished for its role in major naval engagements of the French Revolutionary Wars.
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E.
HMS Ivanhoe
HMS Ivanhoe was a British Royal Navy I-class destroyer that served during the early years of World War II, notably participating in operations such as the Altmark Incident.
- 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: HMS Director Target entity description: HMS Director was a Royal Navy warship best known as the vessel commanded by William Bligh after the Bounty mutiny and for its involvement in the Spithead and Nore mutinies of 1797.
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A.
HMS Drake
HMS Drake was a British armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy, launched in the early 20th century and serving prominently before and during World War I.
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B.
HMS Drake
HMS Drake was a British Royal Navy warship that served during the Age of Sail and was notable enough to be captured and taken into service by the United States as USS Ranger.
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C.
HMS Captain
HMS Captain was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line in the Royal Navy, notable for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797.
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D.
HMS Excellent
HMS Excellent was a notable Royal Navy warship that served during the late 18th century, distinguished for its role in major naval engagements of the French Revolutionary Wars.
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E.
HMS Ivanhoe
HMS Ivanhoe was a British Royal Navy I-class destroyer that served during the early years of World War II, notably participating in operations such as the Altmark Incident.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy warship
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ship ⓘ |
| afterEventCommander | William Bligh after the Bounty mutiny ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Bounty mutiny ⓘ |
| conflict | French Revolutionary Wars ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| crewActivity | participation in large-scale naval mutinies of 1797 ⓘ |
| event |
Nore mutiny
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spithead mutiny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flagshipRole | mutinous fleet elements at the Nore ⓘ |
| hasMutiny |
Nore mutiny
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spithead mutiny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | French Revolutionary Wars era ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being commanded by William Bligh after the Bounty mutiny
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involvement in the Nore mutiny ⓘ involvement in the Spithead mutiny ⓘ |
| locationOfService | British waters ⓘ |
| militaryBranchRole | ship of the line ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Director of the Navy Board ⓘ |
| notableCommander | William Bligh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| partOf | Royal Navy Channel Fleet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| type | ship of the line ⓘ |
| yearOfEvent | 1797 mutinies at Spithead and the Nore ⓘ |
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: HMS Director Description of subject: HMS Director was a Royal Navy warship best known as the vessel commanded by William Bligh after the Bounty mutiny and for its involvement in the Spithead and Nore mutinies of 1797.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.