Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Java
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The Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Java was a notable naval engagement of the War of 1812 in which the American frigate USS Constitution defeated and destroyed the British frigate HMS Java off the coast of Brazil.
All labels observed (3)
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| Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Java canonical | 1 |
| USS Constitution destroyed HMS Java to avoid recapture | 1 |
| USS Constitution took prisoners from HMS Java | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13565043 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Java Context triple: [William Bainbridge, notableBattle, Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Java]
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A.
Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere
The Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere was a notable naval engagement during the War of 1812 in which the American frigate USS Constitution earned the nickname "Old Ironsides" after decisively defeating the British frigate HMS Guerriere.
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B.
Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Cyane and HMS Levant
The Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Cyane and HMS Levant was a War of 1812 naval engagement in which the American frigate USS Constitution defeated and captured the two smaller British warships in the Atlantic.
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Battle between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon
The Battle between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon was a pivotal naval engagement of the War of 1812, remembered for the swift British victory and U.S. Captain James Lawrence’s dying command, “Don’t give up the ship.”
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USS Constellation vs L'Insurgente
USS Constellation vs L'Insurgente was a 1799 naval battle in which the American frigate USS Constellation captured the French frigate L'Insurgente, marking one of the first major U.S. naval victories.
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E.
Battle of Nassau Bay
The Battle of Nassau Bay was a World War II amphibious landing and engagement in New Guinea in June–July 1943, in which Allied forces secured a vital beachhead to support operations against the Japanese-held strongholds of Salamaua and Lae.
- 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: Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Java Target entity description: The Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Java was a notable naval engagement of the War of 1812 in which the American frigate USS Constitution defeated and destroyed the British frigate HMS Java off the coast of Brazil.
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A.
Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere
The Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere was a notable naval engagement during the War of 1812 in which the American frigate USS Constitution earned the nickname "Old Ironsides" after decisively defeating the British frigate HMS Guerriere.
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B.
Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Cyane and HMS Levant
The Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Cyane and HMS Levant was a War of 1812 naval engagement in which the American frigate USS Constitution defeated and captured the two smaller British warships in the Atlantic.
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C.
Battle between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon
The Battle between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon was a pivotal naval engagement of the War of 1812, remembered for the swift British victory and U.S. Captain James Lawrence’s dying command, “Don’t give up the ship.”
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D.
USS Constellation vs L'Insurgente
USS Constellation vs L'Insurgente was a 1799 naval battle in which the American frigate USS Constellation captured the French frigate L'Insurgente, marking one of the first major U.S. naval victories.
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E.
Battle of Nassau Bay
The Battle of Nassau Bay was a World War II amphibious landing and engagement in New Guinea in June–July 1943, in which Allied forces secured a vital beachhead to support operations against the Japanese-held strongholds of Salamaua and Lae.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Java Description of subject: The Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Java was a notable naval engagement of the War of 1812 in which the American frigate USS Constitution defeated and destroyed the British frigate HMS Java off the coast of Brazil.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Java
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USS Constitution took prisoners from HMS Java
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Battle between USS Constitution and HMS Java
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USS Constitution destroyed HMS Java to avoid recapture
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