HMS Formidable
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HMS Formidable was a British Illustrious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that saw extensive service in World War II, including major operations in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HMS Formidable canonical | 4 |
| British aircraft carrier Formidable | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1360293 — 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 Formidable Context triple: [Indian Ocean raid, involvedUnit, HMS Formidable]
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A.
HMS Indomitable
HMS Indomitable was a British Royal Navy aircraft carrier of the Illustrious class that saw extensive service in World War II, including major operations in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters.
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B.
HMS Prince of Wales
HMS Prince of Wales is a Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy, designed to project air power and support a wide range of naval operations worldwide.
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C.
HMS Prince of Wales
HMS Prince of Wales was a British King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that saw significant action in World War II, including engagements against the German battleship Bismarck and service in the Pacific before being sunk by Japanese aircraft in 1941.
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D.
HMS Warspite
HMS Warspite was a renowned British Royal Navy battleship celebrated for its distinguished combat service in both World Wars.
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E.
HMS Vanguard
HMS Vanguard was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the decisive 1798 Battle of the Nile in the French Revolutionary Wars.
- 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 Formidable Target entity description: HMS Formidable was a British Illustrious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that saw extensive service in World War II, including major operations in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters.
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A.
HMS Indomitable
HMS Indomitable was a British Royal Navy aircraft carrier of the Illustrious class that saw extensive service in World War II, including major operations in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters.
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B.
HMS Prince of Wales
HMS Prince of Wales is a Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy, designed to project air power and support a wide range of naval operations worldwide.
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C.
HMS Prince of Wales
HMS Prince of Wales was a British King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that saw significant action in World War II, including engagements against the German battleship Bismarck and service in the Pacific before being sunk by Japanese aircraft in 1941.
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D.
HMS Warspite
HMS Warspite was a renowned British Royal Navy battleship celebrated for its distinguished combat service in both World Wars.
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E.
HMS Vanguard
HMS Vanguard was a British Royal Navy ship of the line best known for serving as Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship during the decisive 1798 Battle of the Nile in the French Revolutionary Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Illustrious-class aircraft carrier
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Royal Navy ship ⓘ aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| airGroupCapacity | about 50 aircraft ⓘ |
| armament |
16 × 4.5-inch dual-purpose guns
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20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns ⓘ 40 mm anti-aircraft guns ⓘ |
| armor |
armored flight deck
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armored hangar sides ⓘ belt armor ⓘ |
| beam | 29.2 metres ⓘ |
| builder | Harland and Wolff ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1940-11-24 ⓘ |
| constructionSite | Belfast ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| damagedBy |
German dive bombers
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Japanese kamikaze aircraft ⓘ |
| decommissioned | 1947-08-12 ⓘ |
| displacementFullLoad | 28000 long tons ⓘ |
| displacementStandard | 23000 long tons ⓘ |
| draught | 8.5 metres ⓘ |
| fate | scrapped ⓘ |
| laidDown | 1937-06-17 ⓘ |
| launched | 1939-08-17 ⓘ |
| lengthOverall | 225.6 metres ⓘ |
| maximumSpeed | 30 knots ⓘ |
| notableFeature | armored flight deck that limited damage from bombs and kamikazes ⓘ |
| operator | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| pennantNumber | 67 ⓘ |
| powerOutput | 111000 shp ⓘ |
| precededByClass | Ark Royal-class aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| propulsion |
3 shafts
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6 Admiralty 3-drum boilers ⓘ steam turbines ⓘ |
| scrappedIn | 1953 ⓘ |
| servedInConflict | World War II ⓘ |
| serviceEntryPeriod | World War II era ⓘ |
| shipClass | Illustrious class ⓘ |
| successorClass | Implacable-class aircraft carrier ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
Indian Ocean
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Mediterranean Sea ⓘ Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| tookPartIn |
Battle of Cape Matapan
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Battle of Crete ⓘ British Pacific Fleet operations against Japan ⓘ Operation Avalanche ⓘ Operation Torch ⓘ air strikes on Okinawa ⓘ air strikes on Sakishima Gunto ⓘ attacks on Italian fleet units in 1941 ⓘ attacks on Taranto ⓘ |
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 Formidable Description of subject: HMS Formidable was a British Illustrious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that saw extensive service in World War II, including major operations in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
British aircraft carrier Formidable
subject surface form:
Battle of Cape Matapan
subject surface form:
Battle of Cape Matapan