Victoria class
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The Victoria class is a group of diesel-electric attack submarines operated by the Royal Canadian Navy, originally built for the Royal Navy as the Upholder class.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Victoria class canonical | 4 |
| Victoria-class | 3 |
| British Upholder class | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13040394 — 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: Victoria class Context triple: [HMCS Chicoutimi, class, Victoria class]
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A.
Excelsior class
The Excelsior class is a Federation starship design in the Star Trek universe, known for its advanced technology and long service life across multiple Starfleet eras.
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B.
Devonshire class
The Devonshire class was a group of early 20th-century British armored cruisers built for the Royal Navy, serving in various roles including patrol, escort, and fleet support before and during World War I.
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C.
Sovereign-class
The Sovereign-class is a highly advanced Federation starship design in the Star Trek universe, known for its sleek profile, powerful weaponry, and serving as the class of the USS Enterprise-E.
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D.
Lexington class
The Lexington class was a pair of early U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, originally laid down as battlecruisers, that played a key role in developing American carrier aviation between the World Wars and during the early years of World War II.
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E.
Royal Laurel Class
Royal Laurel Class is EVA Air's premium long-haul business class product, featuring lie-flat seats, enhanced privacy, and upgraded dining and service.
- 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: Victoria class Target entity description: The Victoria class is a group of diesel-electric attack submarines operated by the Royal Canadian Navy, originally built for the Royal Navy as the Upholder class.
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A.
Excelsior class
The Excelsior class is a Federation starship design in the Star Trek universe, known for its advanced technology and long service life across multiple Starfleet eras.
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B.
Devonshire class
The Devonshire class was a group of early 20th-century British armored cruisers built for the Royal Navy, serving in various roles including patrol, escort, and fleet support before and during World War I.
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C.
Sovereign-class
The Sovereign-class is a highly advanced Federation starship design in the Star Trek universe, known for its sleek profile, powerful weaponry, and serving as the class of the USS Enterprise-E.
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D.
Lexington class
The Lexington class was a pair of early U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, originally laid down as battlecruisers, that played a key role in developing American carrier aviation between the World Wars and during the early years of World War II.
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E.
Royal Laurel Class
Royal Laurel Class is EVA Air's premium long-haul business class product, featuring lie-flat seats, enhanced privacy, and upgraded dining and service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
diesel-electric attack submarine class
ⓘ
submarine class ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Canada ⓘ |
| acquisitionMethod | lease-purchase from United Kingdom ⓘ |
| armament | torpedoes ⓘ |
| beam | approximately 7.6 metres ⓘ |
| builder |
Cammell Laird
ⓘ
Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Limited ⓘ
linked to:
Vickers-Armstrongs
|
| constructionMaterial | steel ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginalOperator | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| crewComplement | approximately 48 ⓘ |
| designedBy | VSEL ⓘ |
| designedFor |
anti-submarine warfare
ⓘ
anti-surface warfare ⓘ patrol ⓘ surveillance ⓘ |
| displacementSubmerged | approximately 2700 tonnes ⓘ |
| displacementSurfaced | approximately 2400 tonnes ⓘ |
| draught | approximately 5.5 metres ⓘ |
| enteredServiceWithRoyalCanadianNavy | early 2000s ⓘ |
| enteredServiceWithRoyalNavy | early 1990s ⓘ |
| hasHullConfiguration | teardrop hull ⓘ |
| hasUnit |
HMCS Chicoutimi
ⓘ
HMCS Corner Brook ⓘ HMCS Victoria ⓘ HMCS Windsor ⓘ |
| hullType | single-hull ⓘ |
| length | approximately 70.3 metres ⓘ |
| maximumDivingDepth | over 200 metres ⓘ |
| maximumSpeedSubmerged | over 20 knots ⓘ |
| maximumSpeedSurfaced | approximately 12 knots ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Canadian cities ⓘ |
| navigationSystem | inertial navigation system ⓘ |
| numberOfBoats | 4 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Royal Canadian Navy ⓘ |
| operatorBranch |
Canadian Submarine Force
ⓘ
linked to:
Canadian submarine fleet
|
| originallyBuiltFor | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| originalName | Upholder class ⓘ |
| originClass | Upholder class ⓘ |
| powerplant | diesel generators and electric motor ⓘ |
| propulsion | diesel-electric ⓘ |
| role |
NATO operations
ⓘ
coastal defence ⓘ |
| sensorSuite |
periscopes
ⓘ
sonar ⓘ |
| submarineType | attack submarine ⓘ |
| torpedoTubeCalibre | 533 mm ⓘ |
| torpedoTubeCount | 6 ⓘ |
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: Victoria class Description of subject: The Victoria class is a group of diesel-electric attack submarines operated by the Royal Canadian Navy, originally built for the Royal Navy as the Upholder class.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Victoria class