His Majesty's Ship
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"His Majesty's Ship" is the formal prefix used to designate a commissioned warship of a reigning king in the British Royal Navy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Her Majesty's Ship | 2 |
| His Majesty's Ship canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15496650 — 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: His Majesty's Ship Context triple: [HMS, standsFor, His Majesty's Ship]
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A.
HMS Serapis
HMS Serapis was a British Royal Navy warship best known for its capture by John Paul Jones’s Bonhomme Richard during a fierce 1779 naval battle off Flamborough Head in the American Revolutionary War.
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B.
HMS Wager
HMS Wager was an 18th-century British Royal Navy warship whose wreck and the ensuing mutiny and survival saga became one of maritime history’s most infamous disasters.
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C.
HMS Surprise
HMS Surprise is the fictional early-19th-century Royal Navy frigate that serves as Captain Jack Aubrey’s command in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin novels and their film adaptation "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."
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D.
HMS Briton
HMS Briton was a 19th-century Royal Navy warship best known for rediscovering the Bounty mutineers’ community on Pitcairn Island.
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E.
HMS Sirius
HMS Sirius was the Royal Navy warship that served as the flagship of the First Fleet, leading the establishment of the first British colony in Australia in 1788.
- 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: His Majesty's Ship Target entity description: "His Majesty's Ship" is the formal prefix used to designate a commissioned warship of a reigning king in the British Royal Navy.
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A.
HMS Serapis
HMS Serapis was a British Royal Navy warship best known for its capture by John Paul Jones’s Bonhomme Richard during a fierce 1779 naval battle off Flamborough Head in the American Revolutionary War.
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B.
HMS Wager
HMS Wager was an 18th-century British Royal Navy warship whose wreck and the ensuing mutiny and survival saga became one of maritime history’s most infamous disasters.
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C.
HMS Surprise
HMS Surprise is the fictional early-19th-century Royal Navy frigate that serves as Captain Jack Aubrey’s command in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin novels and their film adaptation "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."
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D.
HMS Briton
HMS Briton was a 19th-century Royal Navy warship best known for rediscovering the Bounty mutineers’ community on Pitcairn Island.
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E.
HMS Sirius
HMS Sirius was the Royal Navy warship that served as the flagship of the First Fleet, leading the establishment of the first British colony in Australia in 1788.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: His Majesty's Ship