HMS Leander
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HMS Leander was a Royal Navy light cruiser that served as the lead ship and namesake of the Leander-class cruisers, active during the interwar period and World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HMS Leander canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11157309 — 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 Leander Context triple: [Leander class, namedAfter, HMS Leander]
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A.
HMS Defender
HMS Defender is a Royal Navy Type 45 (Daring-class) air-defence destroyer designed to provide advanced fleet protection and maritime security operations worldwide.
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B.
HMS Rodney
HMS Rodney was a British Royal Navy battleship of the Nelson class that served prominently during World War II, including in major Atlantic and Mediterranean operations and the destruction of the German battleship Bismarck.
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C.
HMS Valiant
HMS Valiant was a British Royal Navy nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the Valiant class that served during the Cold War.
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D.
HMS Valiant
HMS Valiant is a planned Royal Navy nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine intended to serve as part of the United Kingdom’s next-generation strategic deterrent force.
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E.
HMS Daring
HMS Daring is a Type 45 (Daring-class) air-defence destroyer of the Royal Navy, designed to provide advanced fleet protection using sophisticated radar and missile systems.
- 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 Leander Target entity description: HMS Leander was a Royal Navy light cruiser that served as the lead ship and namesake of the Leander-class cruisers, active during the interwar period and World War II.
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A.
HMS Defender
HMS Defender is a Royal Navy Type 45 (Daring-class) air-defence destroyer designed to provide advanced fleet protection and maritime security operations worldwide.
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B.
HMS Rodney
HMS Rodney was a British Royal Navy battleship of the Nelson class that served prominently during World War II, including in major Atlantic and Mediterranean operations and the destruction of the German battleship Bismarck.
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C.
HMS Valiant
HMS Valiant was a British Royal Navy nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the Valiant class that served during the Cold War.
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D.
HMS Valiant
HMS Valiant is a planned Royal Navy nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine intended to serve as part of the United Kingdom’s next-generation strategic deterrent force.
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E.
HMS Daring
HMS Daring is a Type 45 (Daring-class) air-defence destroyer of the Royal Navy, designed to provide advanced fleet protection using sophisticated radar and missile systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Leander-class cruiser
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Royal Navy warship ⓘ light cruiser ⓘ |
| alliedService | Royal New Zealand Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| antiAircraftArmamentUpgraded | during World War II ⓘ |
| armament |
8 × 6-inch (152 mm) guns in twin turrets
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secondary anti-aircraft guns ⓘ torpedo tubes ⓘ |
| beam | approximately 56 feet ⓘ |
| builder | Devonport Dockyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| class | Leander-class cruiser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissioned | 24 March 1933 ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crewComplement | approximately 570 ⓘ |
| damagedIn | Battle of Kolombangara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designFeature |
flush-deck hull
ⓘ
single funnel ⓘ |
| displacement | approximately 7,000 tons standard ⓘ |
| era |
World War II
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interwar period ⓘ |
| fate | scrapped ⓘ |
| laidDown | 8 September 1930 ⓘ |
| laterOperator | Royal New Zealand Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launched | 24 September 1931 ⓘ |
| length | approximately 554 feet ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Leander (mythological figure) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namesakeOf | Leander-class cruiser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| navalRole |
fleet screening
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patrol duties ⓘ trade protection ⓘ |
| notableEngagement | Battle of Kolombangara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| pennantNumber | 75 ⓘ |
| propulsion |
oil-fired boilers
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steam turbines ⓘ |
| scrappedIn | 1950 ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | interwar period ⓘ |
| shipType | light cruiser ⓘ |
| sisterShip |
HMS Achilles
NERFINISHED
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HMS Ajax NERFINISHED ⓘ HMS Neptune NERFINISHED ⓘ HMS Orion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theatreOfOperations |
Indian Ocean
NERFINISHED
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Mediterranean Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transferredTo | New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy 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: HMS Leander Description of subject: HMS Leander was a Royal Navy light cruiser that served as the lead ship and namesake of the Leander-class cruisers, active during the interwar period and World War II.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.