HMS Investigator
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HMS Investigator was a British Royal Navy survey ship best known for carrying Matthew Flinders on the first circumnavigation and detailed charting of the Australian coastline in the early 19th century.
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| HMS Investigator canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12494038 — 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 Investigator Context triple: [Matthew Flinders, shipCommanded, HMS Investigator]
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HMS Investigator
HMS Investigator was a British Royal Navy exploration ship best known for its role in the mid-19th-century search for the Northwest Passage in the Arctic.
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HMS Erebus
HMS Erebus was a British Royal Navy bomb vessel later converted for polar exploration, best known for its ill-fated role in Sir John Franklin’s 19th-century Arctic expedition to find the Northwest Passage.
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HMS Adventure
HMS Adventure was a Royal Navy research vessel that served as the consort ship on James Cook’s second voyage of exploration to the Pacific in the 1770s.
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D.
RRS James Cook
RRS James Cook is a British Royal Research Ship operated by the National Oceanography Centre, designed for advanced multidisciplinary oceanographic research worldwide.
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E.
HMS Bounty
HMS Bounty was an 18th-century British Royal Navy ship best known for the infamous 1789 mutiny led by Fletcher Christian against Captain William Bligh.
- 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 Investigator Target entity description: HMS Investigator was a British Royal Navy survey ship best known for carrying Matthew Flinders on the first circumnavigation and detailed charting of the Australian coastline in the early 19th century.
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A.
HMS Investigator
HMS Investigator was a British Royal Navy exploration ship best known for its role in the mid-19th-century search for the Northwest Passage in the Arctic.
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B.
HMS Erebus
HMS Erebus was a British Royal Navy bomb vessel later converted for polar exploration, best known for its ill-fated role in Sir John Franklin’s 19th-century Arctic expedition to find the Northwest Passage.
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C.
HMS Adventure
HMS Adventure was a Royal Navy research vessel that served as the consort ship on James Cook’s second voyage of exploration to the Pacific in the 1770s.
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D.
RRS James Cook
RRS James Cook is a British Royal Research Ship operated by the National Oceanography Centre, designed for advanced multidisciplinary oceanographic research worldwide.
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E.
HMS Bounty
HMS Bounty was an 18th-century British Royal Navy ship best known for the infamous 1789 mutiny led by Fletcher Christian against Captain William Bligh.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.