SS City of Detroit III wreck
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The SS City of Detroit III wreck is the submerged remains of a once-prominent Great Lakes passenger steamer, now a notable underwater archaeological and diving site.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SS City of Detroit III passenger steamer | 1 |
| SS City of Detroit III wreck canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13410388 — 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 City of Detroit III wreck Context triple: [Great Lakes shipwrecks, hasPart, SS City of Detroit III wreck]
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A.
SS Milwaukee wreck
The SS Milwaukee wreck is the remains of a historic railroad car ferry that sank in Lake Michigan during a 1929 storm, now a notable Great Lakes shipwreck and diving site.
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B.
SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 wreck
The SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 wreck is the lost remains of an early 20th-century train ferry that mysteriously sank on Lake Erie in 1909, becoming one of the Great Lakes’ most enduring maritime mysteries.
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C.
SS Eastland wreck
The SS Eastland wreck is the remains of a passenger steamship that tragically capsized in the Chicago River in 1915, resulting in one of the deadliest maritime disasters in Great Lakes history.
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D.
Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck
The Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck is the remains of a famous American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a 1975 storm on Lake Superior, becoming one of the region’s most legendary maritime disasters.
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E.
SS America wreck (Lake Superior)
The SS America wreck in Lake Superior is the remains of a 19th-century wooden steamship that sank near Isle Royale and is now a popular site for cold-water diving and maritime history exploration.
- 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 City of Detroit III wreck Target entity description: The SS City of Detroit III wreck is the submerged remains of a once-prominent Great Lakes passenger steamer, now a notable underwater archaeological and diving site.
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A.
SS Milwaukee wreck
The SS Milwaukee wreck is the remains of a historic railroad car ferry that sank in Lake Michigan during a 1929 storm, now a notable Great Lakes shipwreck and diving site.
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B.
SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 wreck
The SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 wreck is the lost remains of an early 20th-century train ferry that mysteriously sank on Lake Erie in 1909, becoming one of the Great Lakes’ most enduring maritime mysteries.
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C.
SS Eastland wreck
The SS Eastland wreck is the remains of a passenger steamship that tragically capsized in the Chicago River in 1915, resulting in one of the deadliest maritime disasters in Great Lakes history.
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D.
Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck
The Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck is the remains of a famous American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a 1975 storm on Lake Superior, becoming one of the region’s most legendary maritime disasters.
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E.
SS America wreck (Lake Superior)
The SS America wreck in Lake Superior is the remains of a 19th-century wooden steamship that sank near Isle Royale and is now a popular site for cold-water diving and maritime history exploration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Great Lakes steamer
ⓘ
dive site ⓘ passenger steamship ⓘ shipwreck ⓘ underwater archaeological site ⓘ |
| access | boat dive ⓘ |
| condition | submerged remains ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| environment | freshwater ⓘ |
| hasOrigin |
SS City of Detroit III passenger steamer
ⓘ
linked to:
SS City of Detroit III wreck
|
| hasPart | SS City of Detroit III ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic shipwreck ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Great Lakes ⓘ |
| locatedInWaterBody | Great Lakes ⓘ |
| operatedOn | Great Lakes ⓘ |
| protectionNeed | underwater cultural heritage preservation ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Great Lakes passenger steamers
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Lakes steamships
history of Great Lakes shipping ⓘ |
| risk |
artifact looting
ⓘ
corrosion ⓘ physical degradation ⓘ |
| significance |
maritime heritage resource
ⓘ
regional tourism attraction ⓘ |
| studiedBy | maritime archaeologists ⓘ |
| tourismType |
adventure tourism
ⓘ
heritage tourism ⓘ |
| usedFor |
excursion service
ⓘ
passenger transport ⓘ recreational diving ⓘ underwater archaeology research ⓘ |
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 City of Detroit III wreck Description of subject: The SS City of Detroit III wreck is the submerged remains of a once-prominent Great Lakes passenger steamer, now a notable underwater archaeological and diving site.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: SS City of Detroit III wreck