HMS Fox
E120076
HMS Fox was a British Royal Navy warship that was captured by the American frigate USS Hancock during the American Revolutionary War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HMS Fox canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1034489 — 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: HMS Fox Context triple: [USS Hancock, capturedShip, HMS Fox]
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A.
HMS Heron
HMS Heron is the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm air station at Yeovilton in Somerset, serving as a major base for naval aviation operations and training.
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B.
HMS Bellerophon
HMS Bellerophon was a British Royal Navy ship of the line famed for her prominent role in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including the surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard her in 1815.
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C.
HMS Cossack
HMS Cossack was a British Royal Navy destroyer best known for its daring 1940 boarding of the German tanker Altmark in Norwegian waters to free hundreds of Allied prisoners.
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D.
HMS Minotaur
HMS Minotaur was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for her distinguished service in major late 18th-century naval battles against France, including the Battle of the Nile.
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E.
HMS Goliath
HMS Goliath was a British Royal Navy ship of the line that played a significant role in Admiral Nelson’s victory over the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.
- 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: HMS Fox Target entity description: HMS Fox was a British Royal Navy warship that was captured by the American frigate USS Hancock during the American Revolutionary War.
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A.
HMS Heron
HMS Heron is the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm air station at Yeovilton in Somerset, serving as a major base for naval aviation operations and training.
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B.
HMS Bellerophon
HMS Bellerophon was a British Royal Navy ship of the line famed for her prominent role in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including the surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard her in 1815.
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C.
HMS Cossack
HMS Cossack was a British Royal Navy destroyer best known for its daring 1940 boarding of the German tanker Altmark in Norwegian waters to free hundreds of Allied prisoners.
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D.
HMS Minotaur
HMS Minotaur was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for her distinguished service in major late 18th-century naval battles against France, including the Battle of the Nile.
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E.
HMS Goliath
HMS Goliath was a British Royal Navy ship of the line that played a significant role in Admiral Nelson’s victory over the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Royal Navy ship
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warship ⓘ |
| armedForce | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| belligerentSide | Great Britain ⓘ |
| capturedBy |
USS Hancock
ⓘ
United States Navy ⓘ |
| capturedBySide |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| capturedFrom |
Kingdom of Great Britain
ⓘ
Royal Navy ⓘ |
| capturedIn | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| navalRole | combat vessel ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| opponent |
USS Hancock
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| partOf |
British fleet
ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Navy
|
| propulsion | sail ⓘ |
| service |
British Royal Navy
ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Navy
|
| shipType | sailing warship ⓘ |
| theatreOfWar |
Atlantic Ocean
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North American waters ⓘ |
| usedFor | naval warfare ⓘ |
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: HMS Fox Description of subject: HMS Fox was a British Royal Navy warship that was captured by the American frigate USS Hancock during the American Revolutionary War.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.