SS Nomadic
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SS Nomadic is a preserved early 20th-century tender ship built to serve RMS Titanic and now a historic museum vessel in Belfast.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SS Nomadic canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T642144 — 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 Nomadic Context triple: [Titanic Quarter, contains, SS Nomadic]
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
M/V LeConte
M/V LeConte is an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger and vehicle service to coastal communities in Southeast Alaska.
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D.
M/V Kennicott
M/V Kennicott is a mainline Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger, vehicle, and cargo service to coastal communities across Alaska.
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E.
M/V Fairweather
M/V Fairweather is a high-speed catamaran ferry that operated in Alaska’s Marine Highway System, providing fast passenger and vehicle service between coastal communities.
- 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 Nomadic Target entity description: SS Nomadic is a preserved early 20th-century tender ship built to serve RMS Titanic and now a historic museum vessel in Belfast.
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
M/V LeConte
M/V LeConte is an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger and vehicle service to coastal communities in Southeast Alaska.
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D.
M/V Kennicott
M/V Kennicott is a mainline Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger, vehicle, and cargo service to coastal communities across Alaska.
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E.
M/V Fairweather
M/V Fairweather is a high-speed catamaran ferry that operated in Alaska’s Marine Highway System, providing fast passenger and vehicle service between coastal communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic ship
ⓘ
museum ship ⓘ ship ⓘ tender ship ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Department for Communities (Northern Ireland)
ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Ireland Department for Social Development
|
| associatedWith |
Harland and Wolff
ⓘ
surface form:
Harland and Wolff shipyard
RMS Titanic ⓘ Titanic Quarter ⓘ
surface form:
Titanic Quarter, Belfast
|
| beam | 11.3 m ⓘ |
| builder | Harland and Wolff ⓘ |
| builtFor | White Star Line ⓘ |
| builtToServe |
RMS Olympic
ⓘ
RMS Titanic ⓘ |
| completionDate | 1911 ⓘ |
| constructionSite | Belfast ⓘ |
| countryOfConstruction | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| currentLocation |
Titanic Quarter
ⓘ
surface form:
Hamilton Dock, Titanic Quarter, Belfast
|
| currentUse | museum ship ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 1970s ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic monument ⓘ |
| historicEvent | carried passengers to RMS Titanic at Cherbourg in April 1912 ⓘ |
| laterUse |
floating club
ⓘ
harbour tender in Cherbourg ⓘ party venue ⓘ restaurant ship ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1911-04-25 ⓘ |
| length | 67 m ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
last remaining White Star Line vessel
ⓘ
only surviving ship with direct service to RMS Titanic ⓘ |
| numberOfFunnels | 1 ⓘ |
| numberOfMasts | 2 ⓘ |
| operator | White Star Line ⓘ |
| portOfRegistry | Liverpool ⓘ |
| primaryRole |
tendering cargo
ⓘ
tendering mail ⓘ tendering passengers ⓘ |
| propulsion |
coal-fired boilers
ⓘ
steam engines ⓘ |
| restorationLocation | Belfast ⓘ |
| servedPort | Cherbourg ⓘ |
| servedShip |
RMS Olympic
ⓘ
RMS Titanic ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | 1911 ⓘ |
| shipType | passenger tender ⓘ |
| survivedEvent |
RMS Titanic
ⓘ
surface form:
sinking of RMS Titanic
|
| tonnage | 1273 GRT ⓘ |
| yardNumber | 422 ⓘ |
| yearOfConstruction | 1910 ⓘ |
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 Nomadic Description of subject: SS Nomadic is a preserved early 20th-century tender ship built to serve RMS Titanic and now a historic museum vessel in Belfast.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Titanic Belfast