HMS Barfleur
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HMS Barfleur was a prominent Royal Navy ship of the line that served in several major 18th-century naval engagements, including the Battle of the Saintes and the Battle of the Glorious First of June.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Barfleur canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10664922 — 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 Barfleur Context triple: [Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, shipCommanded, HMS Barfleur]
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HMS Ramillies
HMS Ramillies was a British Royal Navy ship of the line that served prominently during the mid-18th century, including early actions of the Seven Years' War.
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B.
HMS Burford
HMS Burford was a Royal Navy ship of the line that served in the 18th century, notably participating in major fleet actions such as those off Porto Bello during Britain’s colonial-era naval conflicts.
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C.
HMS Conway
HMS Conway was a British naval training ship and later shore-based establishment that prepared young men for service in the Merchant and Royal Navies.
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D.
HMS Bellerophon
HMS Bellerophon was a British Royal Navy ship of the line famed for her prominent role in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including the surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard her in 1815.
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E.
HMS Agincourt
HMS Agincourt is a Royal Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Astute class, designed for stealthy intelligence gathering, anti-ship and anti-submarine warfare, and precision land-attack missions.
- 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 Barfleur Target entity description: HMS Barfleur was a prominent Royal Navy ship of the line that served in several major 18th-century naval engagements, including the Battle of the Saintes and the Battle of the Glorious First of June.
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A.
HMS Ramillies
HMS Ramillies was a British Royal Navy ship of the line that served prominently during the mid-18th century, including early actions of the Seven Years' War.
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B.
HMS Burford
HMS Burford was a Royal Navy ship of the line that served in the 18th century, notably participating in major fleet actions such as those off Porto Bello during Britain’s colonial-era naval conflicts.
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C.
HMS Conway
HMS Conway was a British naval training ship and later shore-based establishment that prepared young men for service in the Merchant and Royal Navies.
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D.
HMS Bellerophon
HMS Bellerophon was a British Royal Navy ship of the line famed for her prominent role in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including the surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard her in 1815.
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E.
HMS Agincourt
HMS Agincourt is a Royal Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Astute class, designed for stealthy intelligence gathering, anti-ship and anti-submarine warfare, and precision land-attack missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy warship
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ship of the line ⓘ |
| allegiance | Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| armamentType | broadside-mounted naval guns ⓘ |
| builtAt | Chatham Dockyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commandedBy |
Richard Onslow
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Samuel Hood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
French Revolutionary Wars
ⓘ
War of American Independence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| crewComplement | approximately 700 ⓘ |
| designStandard | 90-gun second rate to 1757 Establishment (modified) ⓘ |
| displacementType | measured in tons burthen ⓘ |
| engagedAgainst | French Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Age of Sail ⓘ |
| fate | broken up ⓘ |
| flagshipOf |
Admiral Lord Howe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Admiral Sir Samuel Hood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gunCount | 90 ⓘ |
| gunDecks | two gun decks ⓘ |
| hullMaterial | wood ⓘ |
| launched | 1768 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Battle of Barfleur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navalTacticContext | line of battle ⓘ |
| notableEngagementRole |
served in the British fleet at the Glorious First of June
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served in the British line at the Battle of the Saintes ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
American War of Independence
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of the Glorious First of June NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of the Saintes NERFINISHED ⓘ French Revolutionary Wars ⓘ |
| precededBy | earlier HMS Barfleur (1697) ⓘ |
| propulsion | sail ⓘ |
| rate | second-rate ship of the line ⓘ |
| scrapped | 1819 ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| shipClass | Barfleur-class ship of the line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededBy | later HMS Barfleur (1892) ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
18th century
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early 19th century ⓘ |
| tookPartInAction |
Battle of the Mona Passage
NERFINISHED
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relief of Gibraltar (1782) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
blockade duty
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convoy escort ⓘ fleet actions ⓘ |
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 Barfleur Description of subject: HMS Barfleur was a prominent Royal Navy ship of the line that served in several major 18th-century naval engagements, including the Battle of the Saintes and the Battle of the Glorious First of June.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cuthbert Collingwood