SS Comet wreck (Lake Superior)
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The SS Comet wreck in Lake Superior is the remains of a 19th-century wooden steamship that sank in 1875 and is now a notable Great Lakes shipwreck and underwater archaeological site.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| SS Comet wreck (Lake Superior) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13410394 — 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 Comet wreck (Lake Superior) Context triple: [Great Lakes shipwrecks, hasPart, SS Comet wreck (Lake Superior)]
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
SS Kamloops wreck
The SS Kamloops wreck is the submerged remains of a Canadian freighter that sank in Lake Superior in 1927 and is now a well-known deep-water dive site and historic Great Lakes shipwreck.
- 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 Comet wreck (Lake Superior) Target entity description: The SS Comet wreck in Lake Superior is the remains of a 19th-century wooden steamship that sank in 1875 and is now a notable Great Lakes shipwreck and underwater archaeological site.
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
SS Kamloops wreck
The SS Kamloops wreck is the submerged remains of a Canadian freighter that sank in Lake Superior in 1927 and is now a well-known deep-water dive site and historic Great Lakes shipwreck.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural heritage site
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shipwreck ⓘ underwater archaeological site ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasCause | maritime accident ⓘ |
| hasConservationStatus | submerged cultural resource ⓘ |
| hasPart |
cargo debris field
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remains of 19th-century wooden steamship SS Comet ⓘ steam machinery remains ⓘ wooden hull remains ⓘ |
| hasQuality | well-preserved underwater site ⓘ |
| hasSignificance |
example of historic commercial vessel loss on Lake Superior
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represents 19th-century wooden steamship construction on the Great Lakes ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
19th-century Great Lakes commercial shipping
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maritime history of Lake Superior ⓘ |
| hasTemporalExtent | 19th century ⓘ |
| hasUse |
site for technical and recreational scuba diving
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site for underwater archaeology ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | notable Great Lakes shipwreck ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
Great Lakes maritime history research
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shipwreck diving guides ⓘ underwater archaeological surveys ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Great Lakes region ⓘ |
| locatedInBodyOfWater | Lake Superior ⓘ |
| materialUsed | wood ⓘ |
| partOf | Great Lakes shipwrecks ⓘ |
| pointInTime | 1875 ⓘ |
| significantEvent | sinking of SS Comet ⓘ |
| startTime | 1875 ⓘ |
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 Comet wreck (Lake Superior) Description of subject: The SS Comet wreck in Lake Superior is the remains of a 19th-century wooden steamship that sank in 1875 and is now a notable Great Lakes shipwreck and underwater archaeological site.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.